US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Some people will blame Mars before they'll criticise Israel.

Yair Netanyahu, Bibi's son, has "from the river to the sea the Israeli flag is all you see" on his X page. Yet if anyone here speaks similar sentiments in favour of Palestine you're labelled anti semitic. It's a joke. I do want a Palestine state from the river to the sea where Jews who reject Zionism are welcome to live alongside native Palestinians.

Their are videos coming out indicating that law and order are starting to break down in Israel. Talk of food shortages as well with the possibility of a humanitarian crisis if this continues indefinitely. People cooped up in shelters for two weeks now. No sign of Bibi. Early unconfirmed reports of Hezbollah taking towns in northern Israel.

Iran, apparently, has issued an evacuation order for parts of Tel Aviv warning they will be rendered uninhabitable after strikes. The US & Israel have been carpet bombing Iranian cities causing mass casualties. Iran, from what we can tell so far have attempted to strike civil and military infrastructure but there has been casualties. Iran also appears to be using ever more powerful missiles as the war goes on.

If Bibi is toast who takes the reins? No sign of David Barnea, Mossad chief or Ben Ghvir either.

If the 12 day war hadn't happened I could maybe understand Bibi taking on Iran, as daft as it seems. Jewish people tend to be extremely confident/arrogant when it comes to their own abilities and militarily they have lorded it over their neighbours. But the 12 day war caused significant damage to Israel and that was with the element of surprise in Israel's favour.

They haven't had that this time and even with U.S. military involvement Israel doesn't have the upper hand. As well as the operational cost of the war it is costing the U.S. billions in lost infrastructure, loss of military prestige and permanent losses of bases across the middle east.

IF Israel does implode into civil war it may prompt the Palestinian people to rise up against the settlers outside Israel's legally recognised borders. Talks of soldiers coming from Yemen to liberate Jerusalem. You have to think the lack of information is scaring the Israelis. One thing a settled society needs is certainty. Certainly of food supply, security and essential services. The Israeli authorities are endeavouring to control the information about what is going on inside the country. But all there doing is undermining public confidence which also could end up being undermined if they knew true reality. So it is damned if you do damned if you don't situation.

It's surreal to watch events in the Middle East play out. As much as Bibi hollered about the threat to Israel from the evil arabs it turns out he was the greatest threat to it's very existence.

Many of the displaced in Lebanon come from the Galilee area that was cleared by Israeli terrorism.

What's that word hitler used for breeding space?

Disappointing turnout from the perspective of the anti war marchers in the UK. My opinion is this reflects a number of factors:

• Some Iranian exiles hope this war will bring regime change.
• Most of the Muslims in the West are Sunni Muslims, whereas Iran is 90% Shia.

Apparently, Iran has prepared for decapitation strikes at multiple levels. Its Mosaic Doctrine incorporates lessons learned from Iraq, Afghanistan and Mao’s struggle against the Japanese. An earlier example of asymmetric warfare and the weapon of time against a stronger military adversary was the American Revolution itself.

Gotta hand it to the Iranian FM. He is cool under pressure and has a dry style.

Seyed Abbas Araghchi@araghchi We've had two decades to study defeats of the U.S. military to our immediate east and west. We've incorporated lessons accordingly. Bombings in our capital have no impact on our ability to conduct war. Decentralized Mosaic Defense enables us to decide when—and how—war will end.

”We’ve incorporated lessons accordingly.” A striking contrast to Hegseth’s undignified ravings.

I quoted a piece from the Financial Times yesterday where a former US general who'd been in charge of the US forces in the Gulf noted that Iran knew everything they needed about these US bases, "our very patterns" was the term he used.

It's often overlooked that refugee displaced by Israeli terrorism settled in the gulf states and no doubt they and their following generations would have zero sympathy of the security of modern Israel. Some of them may actually work in these bases as sub contractors.

Likewise Palestinians within Israel will also relay real time intel about high value targets. If Netaneyhu has been killed they may have tagged his location.

The accusation that Trump is Netanyahu’s tool has moved from the fringes to become commonplace in America since this war started. It’s quite the change.

The more we in the EU become energy independent the less we're entangled with the middle east and the USA.

It's messy and complicated. Hezbollah are Shia and are the main representative of the Shia Muslim population, though they have (or used to have) some allies among the Sunni and even the Christian population. They formed part of the central government until a year or two ago. There are two main political tendencies, both with Christian and Muslim parties - one broadly favourable to Iran and the previous Assad regime in Syria, which includes Hezbollah, and the other seen as 'pro-Western', for want of a better description. The latter are now largely dominating the government, but central government is weak in Lebanon and always has been, particularly since the civil war of 1975-90. Hezbollah were supposed to be disarmed and withdrawn north of the Litani river under the last ceasefire agreement with Israel in 2024. That happened in part but clearly not in full. Hezbollah remains the most powerful party in the south, parts of Beirut and elsewhere.

It's not just Trump that's a tool of Netanyahu. He views the entire US in that way and has done so for decades.

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