Israel Launches strike against Irans Nuclear Programme

I think 18 months of the Hasbara has made people wary and more wise about whatever Israel says. One of the standouts was that football fan who lost a tooth and all of a sudden it was a Pogrom.

Also, people are well aware of the atrocities committed in Gaza - possibly less so in the West Bank. They are highly unlikely to have any sympathy whatsoever.

Israeli's who want no part in this must be sick to their stomachs.

Gaza is being pummelled twice as hard now the world is looking elsewhere.

This came in from Haaretz - the language toned down a lot (I'm assuming it's a follow up statement). Clearly, a bit of back-pedalling going on.

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for moderation in Israel's campaign against Iran in a phone call with Netanyahu, a German government source told Reuters, adding that Merz voiced Germany's support in principle for Israeli military attacks on Iran's nuclear infrastructure, but stressed the importance of seeking diplomatic solutions to the conflict.

I'm aware of the Gaza thread but this opinion piece does clearly talk to the hostages and their families being utterly abandoned as a direct result of the Israeli attack on Iran.

Note that the hostages were demoted to priority number 6 a month or so ago. Recent events will have them way down an now longer list of priorities.

The priority of murdering and starving Palestinians is still at the top of the list though.

While public attention is entirely focused on the war with Iran, the sense is that the dramatic events underway 2,000 km from Israel are pushing the issue of the hostages into the margins.
'The fear is that we'll get used to it,' says Adi Bashiri, a social worker at the Eshkol Regional Council who coordinates help for the families of hostages and for released hostages.
'When there are big events that divert the public's attention, it raises concern. We all know, or more accurately, hear, that every day in captivity is an existential threat to life'"

Ido Efrati

The Hamas-run Health Ministry said that 67 Palestinians were killed and 221 others wounded across Gaza in the past 24 hours. According to the ministry, 12 people were killed and more than 172 wounded while seeking humanitarian aid.

I'm getting a sense of people, after the shock of the unprovoked attack on Iran, are realising that it was a really bad idea.

But it also copper fastens the notion that Israel are just out of control and attacking anything and anyone out of pure hatred. Whilst Israel absolutely has the right to defend and protect itself, people are just seeing a massive disproportionate response.

A lot of people dissed and mocked the recent "selfie-yacht" affair and the convoy to Egypt - but they do resonate with ordinary people.

Oct 7th was abhorrent. But to follow that up with razing 80% of Gaza, starving 2 million and killing upwards of 200,000 then attacking Beirut (and UNIFIL peacekeepers, including the Irish), then taking Golan, then demolishing hundreds of homes in the West Bank is just astonishing.

I won't repeat every single atrocity over the last 18 months - the stand-outs in recent times are the 15 medics executed and the IDF lying about it, the IDF anally raping a prisoner with an iron bar and IDF soldiers setting a dog on a Down's Syndrome boy and leaving him to die - alone. The other atrocity of the Hannibal Directive is equally distressing. But there are so many other atrocities - the IDF warned all soldiers abroad on their hollybops to delete their social media in case they were caught with their video beasties and arrested for war crimes.

I have never witnessed such brutality, such utter disdain for human life. And I think the world sees it too and that is why the lack of sympathy for Israel is palpable. And that is very hard on Israelis who also see their govt's actions for what they are.

But starvation hasn't fully kicked in in Gaza and it is no longer headline news. This will get worse. A lot worse.

Apologies for the offloading - I actually despair for humanity.

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Exactly . But backed to the hilt by Trump nothing will stop their expansion along the Mediterranean Sea and their ethnic cleansing . I see Netanyahu as a mirror image of Hitler . A man so consumed by racial hate that projects it as as a National imperative . Israelis will hide their faces in shame in the coming years or maybe I'm giving them too much credit . Imagine if Clinton had supported Serbia and bombed the shyte out of the surrounding countries in support of Slobo .

Seems there are others, many others, repeating what you think is a lie:

"Israel’s use of force against Iran was and remains a manifest violation of the UN Charter. It was neither authorized by the UN Security Council nor a response to an actual or imminent armed attack by Iran. It is that simple."

Its funny how history began on October 7th 2023 when it comes to Gaza, but when it comes to Iran, you have to delve deep into all of the historical context for why Israel are justified in killing hundreds of Iranians (will probably be many thousand before they stop bombing them)