US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

But what is your point?

I suggest you go back and re-read the exchange again instead of just automatically replying. I've been very clear.

Smotrich's party may only have 7 members of parliament but that's enough to give him the balance of power and make him a king maker. He leveraged that position to become the Minister of Finance and his party has an out-sized influence on government policy given its relatively small size.

If "Greater Israel" is a conspiracy theory then it's one that is believed by the Minister of Finance of Israel.

It should be very concerning that a man who believes in conspiracies has risen to such a position of power in that country. In fact it should really have made him politically toxic enough that he would never have been considered as a coalition partner. His governing partners don't seem to mind these beliefs of his though.

The war machine in the UK is cranking up. All the right wing rags have their Sunday editorials laying out the case why Britain should join the war. Starmer is weak enough to bow to pressure from them and the Israelis.

The country is on the verge of bankruptcy, going to war again will break them and finish labour. But their ego and imperial mindset will see them jump in head first.

So we take the 'can't someone else do it' bury our heads in the sand approach with defence? That's all i need to know.

Neutrality does not mean a nation need be defenceless. That's not reality

I said no Gulf state is neutral. In response to another poster. Who has brought up Ireland numerous times in a rediculous comparison with Gulf states and neutrality.

I then said if the US are using Shannon then we're not neutral either.

I then said if we borderd Iran and the US were using Shannon, Iran would be within their rights to hit us.

You then went off on a tangent about WW2 and neutrality.

Neutrality needs to be enforced. Its not a get out of jail card to be waved around when youre clearly helping one side.

far left warmongers

Trump and Bibi?

Bloody Woke Cuckhold Liberal Elites.

US/Israel trying desperately to deceive the European nations to actively participate in their war

At least one poster quoted in this post

thinks Ireland being attacked by Iran is fine

Do you also hold this opinion?

Either neutral countries are left alone or they are dragged into this war (as many have already been repeatedly attacked by Iran)

It’s the far left in Ireland who to quote yourself @sock.rocker* ”hold onto fictions” such as;

1. We don’t need to spend anything on defence
2. Constantly criticise other EU / European countries who do just that
3. Neutral countries won’t be attacked (yet they have)
4. Iran, Russia etc do not openly day after day publicly state they want a world without rules where they may be restrained from carrying out atrocities in their spheres of influence because might is right

Yes we have witnessed the US and Israel throw the rule books out the window and lower themselves to the level of Irans and Russia of this world

I for one fully agree with our president for once

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/02/28/president-connolly-calls-for-immediate-diplomacy-following-middle-east-military-strikes/

President Catherine Connolly has said “all possible steps must be taken to avoid a further escalation” in the Middle East

and yet we have various far lefties celebrating escalation by their “team” and making up excuses and justification for their team attacking more and more neutral countries including now this one

It's almost like the rag media have forgotten it was the USA/Israel that started this.

Even peace-loving NATO could not bring itself to describe the Israeli false flag attack on Diego Garcia as being from Iran. The deliberate misinformation resulted in the UK allowing the US to use some of its bases for attacking Iran.

"That even the NATO Secretary General (Mark Rutte) declines to endorse Israel's most recent disinformation, speaks volumes: the world has grown thoroughly exhausted with these tired and discredited 'false flag' storylines," he wrote. The denial came after Rutte said the alliance "cannot confirm" Israel's claim that missiles targeting Diego Garcia were Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The lever that might work is appealing to his sense of greed. I can see him taking the off ramp if the Markets deliver even worse news this week. I suspect the discontent maybe growing among his greedy inner circle, couple that with the pressure from the Gulf states , and he could well walk away soon. He will want to be seen as dictating the end by opening the strait of Hormuz first, if he can't achieve this with his coalition of the co-coerced, then the Markets could well dictate he does it

I see Kier has effectively rubbished the IDF claim. The IDF in lying shocker... well I never thought I would live to see such a thing!