Israel are going to start WWIII

Netanyahu and his fellow headbangers in Likud wants escalation. They want the conflict to expand and go on. Because when it stops, they have an awful lot of explaining to do and will, in all likelihood, find themselves out of power in Israel. The longer this goes on, the more chance they have of consolidating their position.

Netanyahu will find himself in jail when the war cabinet dissolves. He is under investigation and almost a certainty to be found guilty, but this cannot happen while he is PM.

Don't forget there have been massive public protests against the netanyahu government in Tel Aviv for months and months. He is well and truly holding the country to ransom

did the Irananian leaders just do enough to stay alive or will Israel carry out an SMO soon, what with the one year anniversary of 7th Oct and the US without any sort of leader it would be a good time to do some accounts settling

Hopefully Timmy. He's, absolutely, one of the most disgusting world leaders operating at present and that's saying something.

Not quite true. Regan put manners on Shamir when he suspended military aid to Israel. Bush Senior did it too. Now it maybe that APIAC is more powerful now or that it being an election cycle Bibi has Joe snookered. Although I have a feeling Joe being a self declared proud zionist wouldn't do it at any time. By the way the US Government has given over 310 billion dollars to Israel since 1948.

The thing about the massive foreign aid the US sends to the likes of Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia to quell tensions after every flairup, what will happen when, and it will happen, the US simply can't afford it anymore?

If they pick a favorite then they're committed to boots on the ground if everyone else they had been buying off bands together.

I suspect he will cut some sort of deal to avoid a jail sentence. According to the BBC he has received a bounce in the polls after the decimation of the Hezbollah military and political leadership. Although that could prove to be fleeting- I hope so anyway.

Yet again no anti-semitism involved at all. Great to see such honesty for a change.

There is absolutely no doubt by some Israeli commentators that October 7th was orchestrated to a point by Bibi and his Ghouls with the soul aim of destroying the very notion of a 2 state solution ever happening. Keeping him out of prison was an added bonus.

He is just as dangerous as anything else in that region.

Not entirely sure the the value of selectively picking one period from half a century ago. It doesn't negate the history before or since. The region rules are well able to create their own wars and conflicts.

Not sure it is overlooked. Seems well reported.

Seems to be quite a few who are saying "attack Iran and you'll suffer the consequences ".

Are they militarily a strong nation? I suspect people are over estimating their ability. I don't think you'll ever see Israeli soldiers actually in Iran in a land war, it'll all be from the air, and let's be honest Israel will have an unlimited supply of bombs to drop from the US, UK and the west. They have the tech and knowledge to win a war from those kind of attacks, based on what we have seen in the last few weeks, where they have taken out all the top men in Hezbollah without much problem.

It reminds me of the Iraq war when we were told quite often that the US would make a massive mistake by invading and they'd be hammered by the elite Iraqi troops. But they walked all over them with next to no resistance.

I suspect people are hyping up Irans capabilities.

I'd be wary of believing every hit Israel says it executed. It seems every neonatal ward Israel destroyed in Gaza was a Hamas HQ, and every infant they murdered were Hamas masterminds.

I'm not dismissing the invasion of Iraq as as non event. Of course it was huge on the world stage and did indeed cause massive problems we are still feeling to this day.

What i was pointing out was the hyping up of the Iraqi military and how they would crush any invading force, when what happened in effect was that they capitulated or ran away.