Israel are going to start WWIII

Yes you have similar posts.

No idea what metropolitan centres relates to.

You both have simplistic "end games". It will never end. Constant hatred and terror.

Sometimes treating women like second class citizens and having death by stoning for gays only matter if you are an enemy of the west. If you are an ally, anything goes.

I'd say you are very wrong on this.

It's Israel's hostile neighbours who started it.

Remember: Hezbollah and Hamas are terrorist organizations ( even by definition of the Irish government), who were having a go at Israel for more than a while.

Israel has a right to defend herself.

Russia and Iran signed a deal recently, or are about to sign, mutual defense, so Israel attack Iran, Russia attack Israel, USA defend Israel, Russia attack USA.

Yes It does,but not to commit war crimes in Gaza while doing it . Also the occupation in the West Bank is not self defense.

The US, UK, and other NATO countries supplied the weapons and Intel for a brutal regime which treats women like second class citizens and stones gay people to death in their attack on Yemen. Killing thousands of civilians.

Its total hypocrisy for the US and UK to condemn some regimes as brutal and aggressive while arming similar or more brutal and aggressive regimes themselves.

Those people criticising israel on UK social media need to be careful. Two tier/free gear Keir is liable to send the police to arrest them.

https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1841167259391160660

Bit of a double standard here. CNN reporter claiming the HQ of Mossad was a target and that it's in a densely populated area of Tel Aviv.

Militarily, Iran doesn't want a war, as it will push back the many decades of progress it has made. However, if cornered, Iran will be no pushover. It's not like Israel can just roll over a border into Iran. Iran has significant armed forces and they are an extremely proud nation. Airstrikes are the only way Israel and its dubious allies can try to harm Iran and Iran knows and expects this. It has had decades to plan for both Israeli airstrikes. Its quite a long way from Israel too, and even with air-refueling, it's quite a stretch for Israel to reach all of Iran. As many military advisors have already said, the US definitely does not want a war with Iran. It would not go the way many people think it would.

For example, just 200 ballistic missiles were fired today. Iran have almost 3 to 5000 of them in stock.

Israelis have been retaliating against fake attacks for years. The Iron Dome does not exist and today's attacks are evidence of this. Why would Lebanon/Hezbollah/Hamas waste missiles over the years if they knew they will be intercepted? Why would they waste thousands worth of missiles for empty pot-shots? Truth is, they never fired anything. If it doesn't make sense, then it's not true.

Why are the US and UK only acting with such outspoken condemnation now? It's because this is one of the few times that actual missiles have been launched into Israeli territory. Everything before this was completely fake and used by Israelis as a basis for "retaliation".

Here's a video from a few days ago showing the so called "Iron dome" intercepting enemy missiles:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/a1GfPk14Asfv

Clearly shows they are nothing but fireworks launched from within Israeli territory. There is no Iron dome, such a technology that can intercept projectiles going at such speed simply cannot perform the way the israelis claim.

Its not honestly meant. It's almost invariably demanded of pro-palestinian, or even just neutral figures to right at the start of the discussion concede that israel has a right to defend itself.

If a pro-palestinian figure say yes, israel has a right to defend itself they are immediately conceding that israel is defending itself, and the conversation is now about what israel - the victim in this narrative - must do to defend itself.

The only right answer is to say israel is an illegal occupation of Palestinian land and it has no right to defend itself. These people wouldn't grant that the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves.

Lol, I didn't "disappear", I just don't live on boards 24/7. But regarding your questions of numbers, I'm not sure the relevance.

One is either at war or they are not. As for Hezbollah, they've been attacking Israel non-stop starting 8 October last year, so they can't complain now that they are in the "finding out" stage of FAFO. (F around, Find Out)

Correct, and all these colonies of Israel are complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians. Let's hope one day they pay for their many crimes.

This is nonsense. The Iron Dome exists it just isn't magic and is resource intensive.

Of course Israel is afraid of Iran. They are evil genocidal lunatics but that doesn't preclude them from understanding that Iran are a capable regional power. They've been saber rattling against Iran constantly for years.

You are correct though that Iran doesn't want a full scale war with evil maniacs that have a gun to the worlds head in the form of nuclear weapons. War also means war with all the countries that Israel controls like the US, UK, France and so on that are there at the drop of a hat to protect Israels ongoing genocide from being interrupted should anyone dare retaliate.

Labour Friends of Israel is a powerful group. Starmer has used accusations of anti-semetisim to purge those who don't toe the line.