Can’t say that I am surprised by this reaction:
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Add on a bit or rape and sexual assault…
https://x.com/m7mdkurd/status/1818112490351612267?t=hhmh2xKLpVp8bDxias_EdQ&s=19
Israel needs to pace itself or it’ll run out of people to assassinate
Someone trolled the Turkish press.
The person “leaked” that the one who killed Haniyeh is named “Amit Nakesh”. The Turkish media took this and began reporting it.
In Hebrew, “hamitnakesh” means “the assassin”.
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Iran has informed the UN that it will attack Israel under Article 51. The Secretary General confirmed that Iran has the right to defend itself.
So let me get this straight… there’s a bombing of a Palestinian terrorist hiding in Iran, there has been no evidence submitted that Israel was behind it (although we all know it), and the UN just says ok, go “defend” yourselves by attacking Israel.
But when Palestinians go on a rape, kidnapping, and murder spree, and are still keeping hostages, Israel needs to show restraint.
The UN is a joke.
The UN might be a joke, but I think you may want to include the part where Israel destroyed its neighbor and killed 40k defending itself as part of your outrage.
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Spoilered for antagoniosm:
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What, those non-humans? Fuck them with a stick, as allowed by the Army.
(In case it wasn’t obvious, I was being angrily sarcastic.)
Ignoring that Israel has gone on a rape, kidnapping, and murder spree?
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There is a civil uprising over the right for the military to rape prisoners.
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Israel has assasinated a foreign dignitary on their home soil. There will be serious consequences for that one.
This wasn’t Beirut (there was an obvious military case for targeting Shukr given his previous bombings and jobs).
This was a straight-up political assasination of one of the main political negotiators of the Gaza conflict. In Tehran no less (this just makes it even more likely the hardliners in Iran will force a response)
This benefits nobody except the hardliners. Bibi and the Israeli right-wing on one end as they don’t want the conflict to end, given that they want to absorb more land. And Iranian hardliners, as they will gain more political influence.
Israel is now going to be facing active insurgencies and conflicts on multiple fronts. Not the best strategic move, but I suspect Bibi has really only done this in order to keep the entire conflict going for longer (as he then survives politically).
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No, Iran wasn’t his home. Gaza was his home.
And you think there was no case to kill Haniyeh? He was one of the most wanted terrorists in the world.
This benefits the world. A terrible person is dead.
They were already facing that before killing him. Reports today actually are saying that Haniyeh was holding up an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians - Haniyeh was presenting a good face to the public, but behind the scenes, he was pushing for a more hard-line deal. Maybe that’s why he was betrayed by Palestinians? Who knows, maybe Israel actually weren’t the ones who killed him?
Since Haniyeh’s death, people in Iran have been posting Khamenei’s location on social media, and asking for Israel to come kill him too. They’re saying, “Do this and tens of thousands suffering under the IRGC will do the rest”
I once asked an Iranian mathematician what he thought of the revolution (he would have been a teenager, maybe in college, during it). Seemed like a good, non-offensive topic for a seminar dinner. Anyways, he said that everyone was hopeful at first b/c the Shah was so terrible, but it quickly became clear that the new regime was just as bad.
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He was a guest of Iran.
Iran invited him there. Tehran = Iranian home soil.
What would you do if Iran assasinated Ben-Gvir and Smotrich in Jerusalem?
Because that is precisely what could happen next.
Israel has crossed a serious red line. Now there will be no limits to who can be targeted for political reasons.
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Who knew that when you overthrow a leader elected in a fair election who enjoys popular support by withholding resources in order to prop up an already unpopular monarch who then uses that advantage to repress the shit out of people for his own while financially exploiting them to boot, the masses might get a little pissed off?
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Hamas crossed the red line here. Hezbollah and the Houthis have been backing them up with Iranian support. Iran crossed another one with that launch against Israel from Iranian territory.
Also taking out people in Tehran that are known and quite frankly acceptable targets of military value is not new. There have been a few Iranian physicists in their nuke program that have been assassinated in Tehran. This was within the parameters of the long term “shadow” war they’ve been fighting for a 45+ years now.
An attempt on the Supreme leader or a major IRGC installation would have been crossing a red line.
Do you think that Iran wouldn’t kill Ben-Gvir or Smotrich if they had the chance? Israel just has better security.
Saniyeh was a recognized terrorist, being harbored by the world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism. I have no issue with his being killed.
If Iran does mount a strong attack, I think they are in for a rude awakening - I can see the regime there being overthrown when the rest of the world steps in. Iran has very few friends.
I mean, even if you discount Syria and Lebanon, they have economic ties to Russia and China. Russia is busy fighting its own war, but China…
Make no mistake China is not Iran’s friend. Strictly transactional mixed with the fact that they both don’t like the US.
China is only sticking its neck out so far for Russia. I doubt they’d stick it out that far for Iran. Xi doesn’t like Muslims, just ask the Uighurs.
China is more than willing to sit on a mountain watching the tigers fight.
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Sure, they’re certainly not going to war for Iran. But I assume they’d sell Iran weapons.