Israel are going to start WWIII

I think we might see an Israeli attack on Iran overnight given that tomorrow is October 7 marking one year since Hamas incursion into Israel and subsequent massacre. It's curious how the U.S. is not able to bring itself to condemn Israeli genocide and mass killings in both Gaza and now Beirut/Lebanon. It confirms that the Israeli lobby has U.S. politics by the balls. Also confirming that the U.S. is not an honest broker in the middle east.

Netanyahu doesn't give a fiddle about the hostages. They can locate key Hezbollah people but not the hostages. I smell bs there right away. Netanyahu is the modern Hitler. A monster of epic proportions. It's always been said he was behind the killing of Yizhak Rabin as the latter was genuinely in favour of a two state solution. Netanyahu want's an ethnically pure Jewish state from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea. He hates the Arabs as Hitler did the Jews.

What's deeply troubling and desponding is the unwavering backing of the U.S. That's unlikely to change anytime soon. Though the polls seem to suggest that younger voters have empathy and sympathy with the Palestinian people and are repulsed by Israel's actions.

If Iran does strike back after a second Israeli attack then i think it will be substantial and may sadly lead to civilian deaths even if inadvertently. Hezbollah is not going to let Israel return it's citizens to the north unless Gaza is resolved to it's satisfaction.

As much as I hate Netanyahu I have utter contempt for Biden. He too is a monster for allowing Netanyahu a free hand to commit genocide. I don't know why he bothers going to church. People have ridiculed my idea of a Palestinian state from the river to the sea whereby Jews and Arabs are afforded equal rights in law. A two state solution won't work. The Israeli political system is filled with two many rabid people to allow a free and fair Palestinian state existing alongside Israel.

Israel as it currently exists cannot be allowed to continue. The people have been indoctrinated to view Arabs as sub human and not as equals. It's what allows them to both commit and support a genocide. I have no desire to see Israeli's expelled from Israel but the country in which they live must be dissolved and a new entity formed which allows both Jews and Arabs to exist as equals.

The US has reportedly offered Israel a "compensation package" if it refrains from attacking certain targets in Iran, according to a report in Kan11 on Sunday.

Looks like iranian targets still being discussed by US...

Well,

Maybe the Americans are not playing ball with the Israelis or maybe Israel is doing smoke and mirrors

You shouldn't have to bribe an ally. Can see biden totally frustrated with bibi now, but too little too late. Bibi probably wants to continue the fighting into next year in the hope Harris doesn't get elected.

Anti-Semitic tropes exist.

Racist tropes exist.

Anti-Irish tropes exist. Check ‘Punch’ magazine for anti-Irish sentiment in 18th century Britain, for example.  It’s all unacceptable in this day and age.

If you had read my initial  post you would have seen me list numerous well known anti-Semitic tropes that he chose to regurgitate.

If he chooses to deploy these tropes then he’s anti-Semitic. It’s pretty cut and dry.

Or maybe you prefer to insist that the notion that the Jews rule the world is not in fact tiresome anti-Semitism, but actual factual reality.

If you hadn’t spotted his antisemitism, and it’s blindingly obvious, well, your intellect clearly isn’t where you think it to be.

If aren’t aware of what antisemitism is, then I suggest  you go and go educate yourself.

You’re not anti-Semitic for making your statement, btw.

Just a bit lame.

Their role was supposedly to keep the peace

Their role is clearly defined in their mandate.

You making up scenarios or new mandates doesn't change that.

Maybe the Americans are not playing ball with the Israelis or maybe Israel is doing smoke and mirrors

Not just the Americans.

China more or less imports all of Iran's oil.

Israel may think it can act with impunity but I imagine certain back channel communications this week suggested they can't.

They have for the last year. But why should they support them in every military exercise? They are fighting on two fronts already, slaughtering 10s of thousands why should the US support them in attacking Iran? Why should the US pay them to stop after all the support they have already provided? Israel just seems like a bad ally to the US.

You are overthinking it, most people including Irish people just don't like seeing 10s of 1000s of people murdered.

I am aware of what anti-Semitism is, and like other apologists you aren't as clever as you think you are.

@volchitsa

What efforts do you think the UN peacekeepers should expend to prevent rockets being fired over their heads - presumably some, possibly many, being fired from outside the UNFIL area of control?

You can bet your life that the US is playing both sides.

With words BUT after they have supplied them with the weapons to attack Iran. The US has skin in both camps as usual.

Israel would definitely not like to see the US and Iran in friendly talks anyway. It would seriously undermine them.

I'm not sure carrot and stick works here. The US cant really offer any carrots. Domestically to be seen to do so is completely forbidden due to the influence of the zionist lobby. And the US is widely seen as non-agreement capable. Any agreement which the US enters into is liable to be cancelled with no cause at any time that is expedient to the US: witness the US-Iranian nuclear deal which was agreed with one president and cancelled by the next.

As for stick, the US cant really threaten the Iranians with anything. More sanctions? Iran is already one of the - if not the - most sanctioned countries in the world and it's still developing. War? The US absolutely does not want war with Iran.

It's not really necessary anyway - all Iran wants is for israel to cease attacking Iran and Iranians. If israel would stop massacring Palestinians and Lebanese civilians, that would be great too. The US can accomplish all that by using the stick with israel. israel is the country that needs to be restrained by the US, not Iran.