Israel are going to start WWIII

I actually agreed with you… And gave the wording the ICJ used.

I've friends in Tel Aviv. I'll give you their feedback. …..

Feelings about the future are mixed. Most are hopefully that a peaceful solution to all this can be found. ….

I wonder who they feel they can make peace with, in view of them having attacked so many neighbours, so many times - causing so much destruction, so many injuries and killing so many of their neighbours. The only people they can "make peace" with are leaders who don't represent their people, like Sisi and the king of Jordan who rely on enormous repressive forces to rule.

One of them believes that Israel won't exist in 20 years times. Says it's only a matter of time before they are subject to an attack that they can't contain.

I too believe that Israel won't exist for ever, but I don't know when it will disappear.

When that happens, I believe that it will be as much down to internal dissent and strife as attack from outside. There have been plenty of articles about emigration from Israel, one recent article mentioned that the best-educated people are quietly emigrating, saying nothing to anybody till they're gone. This has been going on for a long time now, but ramped up last year when Nethanyahoo got back into office.

It moved up several notches more after October 7 2023 for various reasons - in many cases, well-educated youngsters have no interest in joining the army and even less in forming a family somewhere that the future is so uncertain, and even unsafe. In others, professional families with children want their children to grow up somewhere they have a chance at a normal childhood, and not to grow up in a constant state of fear.

Needless to say every time someone disappears in this way, someone in their social or work circles will start to question their own future, and depending on other circumstances, this can turn into a nuclear-style reaction with each departure being the detonating force for two or more further people leaving, until the only ones left are those with no option but to stay. It may not come to this, but as I read the situation - and given reports in the media over the past several years regarding numbers arming themselves with a foreign passport - I feel it is more likely to happen than not.

Agreed. There is a reason that arrest warrants haven't been issued for Nethanyahu and Gallant, and IMO it's all down to US pressure.

Interactions with everyone basically. He said he didn't feel it was a warm and welcoming country or tourist friendly to non-Jewish people (and this was someone who went there expecting to love the place). He came away saying 'never again' to himself and then the October 7th attacks happened a few months later.

We had work trips out there all the time. Never met one who went who didn't love it.

Tel Aviv is an absolutely cracking city. Great Pubs, restaurents, nightlife. The Isrealis are good craic. You can talk about anything.

Also a generally great vibe. Loads of young people on the Kibbutz hippie trail, etc. In my experience it was surprisingly relaxed. I had initally expected more tension. Jerusalem is fanatastic.

Intent is the main factor, that's why it can be difficult to prove acts of genocide as it could be argued that the deaths were as a result of civilians being killed inadvertently, random acts of mass murder by armies etc.

Edit: I meant to say it could be argued in the context of a lack of proof of intent to destroy in whole, or in part, the group. There isn't a cut off point after which it is genocide either, and the group increasing in size doesn't mean an act of genocide has not occurred.

Details of the smaller arms shipments from the US to Israel this past year

Israel deliberately targeting UN soldiers -

https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2024/1011/1474859-middle-east/

Israel is a criminal entity. Imagine deliberately targeting peacekeepers.

I would think that cutting a head off while simultaneously trying to tape it back on is too difficult

Recent strike on the Hezbollah finance bunker, believed 1.5bn dollars and 2000lbs of gold evaporated.

That's a blow that will take a long time to recover from.

No comments on idf deliberately targeting irish troops? You can still be in favour of the israelis attacking iran while also criticising them for putting irish lives in danger.

Nah I think these Arab states are sick of the pyromaniacs in Israel and Iran and won't want a bigger, more destructive war (which is inevitable way things are heading) even if Israel wins that war. Can't exactly be good for business anyway.

In your list, parts of Lebanon are being "Gazified" as we speak (or type). That is hardly something any people living in that country will be happy with now is it (whatever their opinions of either Iran or Hezbollah)?

Netanyahu seems to have gone totally off the deep end. Thinks he's the Jewish Messiah, leading his armies in an epic global struggle.

Delulu, would be ridiculous if it wasn't so serious IMO.

there would be a lot of cheering in Iran too , I dont think their people would be too upset

They are entitled to defend themselves, something something.

But these IDF murderers are only defending themselves.