https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/13/israel-iran-strikes-defence-minister-tehran-middle-east-live
Reports stating that Israel have launched an attack against Iran
Israel will never ever run out of targets. I still think we have just one more week of this war.
Maybe you missed the original question. It referred to peacekeepers killed. Irish Free State soldiers fighting in the Irish Civil War were not “peacekeepers”. 88 Irish peacekeepers have died while serving abroad. Not all were “killed”. I know you don’t like answering questions but would be interested in your evidence for claiming representatives of Palestine killed most Irish soldiers.
israel messaging very different from trump
We have thousands more targets to hit in Iran, says Israeli military
Effie Defrin, a spokesperson for the Israeli military, has given a televised briefing.
During it, he says the Israeli military still has "thousands" of targets to hit in Iran.
Defrin's quoted by Reuters news agency as saying: "We are identifying new targets every day."
I've literally never said any of this. I honestly don't know what part of my post that 'Hezbollah are not refugees in Lebanon' you can't understand. Please stop replying to me.
I and others have said they're base is where many refugees of the Nakba ended up.
You are tiresomely boring with this insistence that Palestinians cannot exist in Lebanon or Jordan and elsewhere after the Nakba.
Seriously, you're just making stuff up about what I am saying at this stage. I have been talking about Hezbollah, the Lebanese group based in Lebanon not being refugees. I have no idea why you are doing this. Please stop replying to me.
There are Palestinians within Gaza descended from displaced people.
I don't know what you're so anal about who exactly is what. Not all Israeli's are Jewish.
Hezbollah are not refugees, which is what you and the other poster were saying or implying. I really have no interest in engaging with you any further on this because you clearly just want to push whatever agenda it is you are trying to push.
Because displaced Palestinian communities have struck back against Israel from various vectors.
No one really thinks about where the refugee camps within Gaza came from.
If you weren't so blatantly disingenuous I might engage with you further. Hezbollah are not refugees, why you are bringing Palestinians into this is beyond me.
Where did I blame Palestinians?
Jews and Christians were Palestinian too before Israel was created.
Agreed.
My point was only about Lebanon - Israel has tried to invade multiple times and grab land. Last year, they were even caught moving the official UN blue line.
I've posted multiple times that Lebanon need to get rid of Hezbollah (and Gaza needs to get rid of Hamas). Egypt and Jordan made peace with Israel. Lebanon is trying hard.
Palestine is different as Israel has illegally occupied it for many decades.
They are also illegally occupying Syria.
That's the "form" I'm talking about.
In my opinion, Hezbollah military action is killing Lebanon. Just like Hamas military action has devastated Gaza.
Israel has already warned Lebanon it will become Gaza II unless they co-operate.
But in fairness to Lebanon, there is a strong desire to eliminate Hezbollah combatants. Buts its very difficult to do and being pounded by Israel does not help at all.
Problem is there wsill be a major political price to pay for that if Iran is still blocking the straits and oil prices are spiking as a result
Hezbollah are not refugees. I get what you're trying to do in blaming Palestinians but it doesn't change the fact that Lebanese Shia are not refugees in Lebanon.
I don't see what's contentious about stating that Hezbollah strongholds are where displaced Palestinians fled to from what is now north Israel. There's four/five generations grown up in what started out as refugee camps in most of the surrounding territories.
I've read how most refugee family's retain the key to the door of the house that their previous generations fled from in the Nakba.
David Sacks, Silicon Valley billionaire supporter of Trump, associated more with the isolationist wing, is calling for the US to claim victory and end the war.
I can understand the outrage, no one on the ground was being consulted about the creation of Israel. Even far flung Ecuador had a UN vote in its creation yet the only UN vote allowed from the affected region was Egypt who voted against it. We weren't even admitted into that club until 1955.
I totally get why many in that region would view the UN as a talking shop at best. How many times must Palestinians experience genocide for the US to not veto action against Israel!
I have no idea who funds this, but its another perspective.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603127596
Look you were wrong in stating that Hezbollah were/are refugees, please stop engaging with me on this.
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In case you missed it, the answer as per my looking up, by name, every Irish UNIFIL death in Lebanon is found here. AI is useful for an overview, but rarely thorough and accurate.
I had to laugh, there were 20 odd attacks against Saudi bases last night, Iran has apparently said that it wasnt them and maybe it was the UAE. Have to admit they are doing a great job with the media misdirection war.
How exactly would you expect them to keep it open? They couldn’t do it against the Houthis even with the help of Saudi and Europe, and the Houthis cant really be described as a well trained army.
Yes I know that they are Shia Lebanese. The Palestinians being refugees is irrelevant in the context of saying that Hezbollah are refugees.
The Trump administration do seem to lack a strong personality to get their messages/excuses consistent. I would be worried this conflict will last for a few months as Trumps ego does not seem to want to accept a defeat.
Actually they are Shi’a Lebanese, but the Palestinians were initially refugees fleeing around 1947/48
Ah here, Israel and the Jews are to blame for everything that is wrong in the world, don't be blaming the sacred God of the UN for something.
This is supposedly an up to date map, but according to the IEA Bander-e Jask in eastern Iran has been a working oil terminal since 2021. Added to this there's supposedly Belt and Road Initiatives nearing completion that would directly link Iran to China via Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan; basically old silk road routes.
As is there's been regular China registered shipments from Bander-e Abbas throughout the Israeli/US attacks.
Plus plenty of Pakistani bound ships transited safely through the strait this week so won't be surprised if there's linkage happening directly between the two neighbours.
Created by the UN following the 1948 war, and one could argue that was started by the Arab world.
