Israel are going to start WWIII

Joe Biden saying he does not support an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Also, Israel has nuclear reactors as well - an eye for an eye exchange would not be in Israel's interests.

It's far worse than that. Jews will be a target in most countries in the world. I mentioned it in a previous post. For every action there is a reaction. They are sowing the seeds of future terrorists in the last year.

The Israelis should call the bluff of Iran and their proxies by calling for a ceasefire. Let's see who blinks first.

The UN troops should be evacuated, they serve no purpose in bunkers and given the waring parties indiscriminate bombing, they are sitting ducks

When you say "Looks like" where are you looking?

Edit sorry didn't see the last line.

Maybe, but i would not like to be a US soldier staying on a base within 2000 km of Iran.

Yes, Israel is an illegitimate country and shouldn't exist. All forms of resistance to these evil genocidal lunatics is righteous. What they do to the Palestinians - they would do to us with no doubt, no remorse or pity.

Looks like Israel's response might be imminent

And there is nothing anti-semitic about this opinion. (I don't hold this opinion, but it's not racist)

The way the country was created, and where it was created is what you have a problem with. And you would have the same problem if it was Arabs, or Germans or Irish who created a country in such a way.

Saying "Israel is an illegitimate country and should not exist" is quite simply not racist and not anti-semitic in my view. It has nothing to do with the fact that the people who created the state are Jewish.

The suspicion is that the Israeli regime is using recent events to justify launching a major pre-emptive strike on Iran and disabling its nuclear capacity. This may be Netanyahu's real motivation and end game.

Massive is going to be a relative term. Seven deaths in a day's fighting of an initial invasion, fourteen in two, is an administrative exercise for an army. Israel reported sixteen casualties after two days in Gaza last year, so we're not talking ridiculously disproportionate numbers here.

Everything is relative.

Anyway the 8 deaths were Elite commandos in a very limited incursion so far.

The point remains Hezbollah are a more formidable, equipped and experienced foe than Hamas as is the Lebanon as an arena.

Eight IDF soldiers killed, seven very seriously injured and three Markova tanks destroyed resulting in the IDF retreating from the area. This is getting very serious now and just goes to prove that old men make war and young men die. Time for talks and sort this out.

Yeah, I know what the point is. My point point is that American foreign still didn't change in any significant way and it won't under any President. Support of Israel is built into the American political landscape and it will continue to be that way until she no longer has any of her own interests there, regardless if they wag a finger every now and then.

Should Biden (and Harris) be more strict with Israel? Yes. Will they in an election year? Absolutely not. The Jewish vote is far too important to them in the time that's in it.

Yeah, that's just another twitter troll engagement account. Clear out your feed:-)

Israel will not make inroads in South Lebanon. They will get stuck and suffer heavy casualties same as 2006.

Its asymmetric warfare - Hezbollah may lack air support but they more than make up for it with ATGMs, missiles and Man pads. That plus the terrain will make it exceedingly difficult for the IDF to gain ground.

IEDs also were involved in some of these early casualties - presumably Hezbollah has large swathes of the border area booby trapped.

Those thinking Hezbollah will roll over or be destroyed are very wrong

I wasn't suggesting that it would nor do i expect it ever will, just that is is possible to get the Israeli government to modify their behaviour if the political will is there

I am well aware they won't do anything in an election year, which is why Bibi is so emboldened. I am not confident Harris will do anything to reign in Bibi if elected, but let's see.

The political situation is very different though. Reagan merely suspended delivery of jets to Israel because they attacked an ally of theirs, Iraq. The Reagan admin was supporting Saddam Hussain at the time and Israeli attacks on Iraq was a strict no no. Reagan, or more to the point his administration, didn't want to see Iraq weakened in any way as a prolonged conflict between them and Iran was in America's interests. America's move at the time was purely strategic and had nothing to do with any kind of altruism.

At present, Israel isn't attacking any US allies. The US, as a political entity, doesn't give a crap about Palestine. Nor does it really care all that much if Israel weakens Iran. They may not want things to get too out of hand, as in an all out war. But they won't rock the boat too much with regards to their support for Israel.

And I'll say this too, if Reagan was in the middle of a re-election campaign right now and under the same circumstances. He wouldn't say shit either.

We'll see how the US proceeds after the election and what path it will take with regards to its support for Israel.