US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Killing of two students in Lebanon 'a new chapter in targeting civilians', president says

Lebanon's president has condemned the killing of two students.

Joseph Aoun blamed Israeli strikes on the Lebanese University campus in the southern suburbs of Beirut for their deaths.

The president said: 

"What happened today at the Faculty of Sciences is a crime condemned by all standards, and a flagrant violation of international laws and norms that prohibit attacks on educational institutions and civilians. 

"It is a new chapter in the targeting of civilians, whether in their villages and towns, or in their workplaces or places of study."

Israel systematically destroys the civilian fabric of countries they want to colonise

the uranium is still there though.. job not done yet

Perpetual war to keep us safe.

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/turkey-next-iran-we-have-seen-script

One of these

This particular one squawked 7700 5 hours ago but appeared to land in Tel Aviv

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/63-8017#3eb55786

Actually looking at that Flightradar tracking, it would appear to me that the aircraft above is the second aircraft involved and it sent an emergency squak and then dumped fuel over the med before landing in Tel Aviv. Therefore two tankers involved, one damaged and one downed. Do they refuel tankers mid-air?

Netherlands, Iceland join South Africa’s ICJ case on Gaza genocide

The Netherlands and Iceland have formally filed declarations of their intent to participate in South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice.

Iceland’s written intervention, totalling 24 pages, notes, for example, that factors related to Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza should include the mass destruction of housing and the enclosed nature of the enclave.

The Netherlands’ submission, totalling 10 pages, covers a range of topics, including “starvation and the deliberate withholding of humanitarian aid,” which it says must be “calculated to bring about [the] eventual physical destruction] of a group, in order to be considered as genocidal.

Have you seen online news from Australia. Oil is running out in Australia and there's rations on oil and fuel and filling tanks. People are only allowed 20 dollars worth of oil at the pumps. That's if they can find a pump with oil.

* F* cking desperate *

We changed our constitution

In any case you should be calling for that section of the charter to be removed especially given the fact Likud are in government and the Israeli prime minister and others in the current Israeli government have given speeches in recent times which reflect the supremacist language contained in the charter.

Regarding you saying the West Bank is contested land. The ICJ was clear in its ruling regarding The West Bank being illegally occupied by Israel and calling for it to end. Framing it as contested land is what i'd expect from someone sympathetic to Israel's position on the West Bank to say, despite such a position being in defiance of international law. Which is a strange position to take given you are keen for Iran's leadership to be held to account for breaking international law. Do you only want international law to be upheld selectively? I ask because if you don't then you should wish for infractions of international law to be pursued regardless of who stands accused of doing it.

So, a bank was hit in Iran by America and Israel. Are they for f*cking real? Why did that do that? Iran said that American and Israel banks are now targets.

America and Israel are making things so much more worse. They need to leave Iran alone.

JD Vance seems to be very quiet these days. Perhaps all is not well between him and Donnie over the war. If so this could work out to his advantage in the longer term

Multiple executive orders, according to Google:

There is no specific statutory law passed by Congress banning the assassination of foreign heads of state; instead, this prohibition exists through Executive Orders signed by Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Executive Order 12333, signed by Reagan in 1981 and still in effect, prohibits any person employed by or acting on behalf of the U.S. government from engaging in, or conspiring to engage in, assassination.

Some thoughts from The Atlantic:

“On Saturday, the United States, in a joint operation with Israel, killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For the first time in the postwar era, Washington has succeeded in killing a foreign leader—shattering a precedent that had been sustained for decades by a mix of moral, political, and logistical concerns.

Fifty years ago, in February 1976, President Gerald Ford signed Executive Order 11905, which directed that “no employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination.” ”

“Ford’s successors actually broadened the scope of his assassination ban. First Jimmy Carter and then Ronald Reagan dropped the qualifier of “political.” Reagan directed that “no person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.” Reagan’s version of the assassination ban remains in effect, last amended by George W. Bush in 2008. President Trump didn’t revoke it.”

Reagan did come close to killing Qaddafi, likewise both HW Bush and Clinton with Saddam Hussein but they weren’t specifically targeted.

“As killing foreign leaders gets easier for us, harming our leaders also presumably gets easier for others. The international taboo against foreign political assassination has arguably had a stabilizing effect, despite those states—Russia, for example—that have flouted it. To put a fine point on it, however tempting it may be to eliminate troublesome foreign leaders, no policy maker in a democracy wants to spark acts of retaliation that cost the lives of our own leaders in turn.”

“Trump Opens the Pandora’s Box of Assassination”

Tim Naftali

The Atlantic

You will be pissing off the only people in ireland who love the trump family inc a couple of local golfers

As to the non planned attack on Iran and the equally non consideration of the closing straits waterway, is up there with other adventures in that area with 1 Hugh exception it is a massive country and throw in Afghanistan like terrain good luck ur on ur own.