Re: Israel - Iran. You ask why would Iran attack now when Israel’s allies are/were working to haul in Israel’s offensive in Gaza? For the same reason Hamas attacked Israel. Israel’s (over)-reaction unites the Palestinian/Iranian citizens behind the terrorists/Iranians involved in the attacks. It reminds their citizenry how much Israel has been and continues to be a disruptive force in their lives. Can you say a continuing thorn in their sides? If Israel’s allies were to be successful in reining in Israel, it would lessen the conflict and hatred which the leaders of those countries depend on to keep the battle going.
As much as I support Israel, even with BiBi in charge, there is one fact that keeps getting overlooked: The Israeli attack, which Iran responded to, sent missiles into the Iranian embassy in Syria. For more than a century, attacking an embassy has been regarded as an an act of war. It is no surprise that the Iranians responded with force. Syria also has reason to declare war on Israel; a missile attack on their soil is also an act of war.
A week or so ago, Ecuador sent armed troops into the Mexican embassy to extract a former Ecuadorian government official who had asked for asylum there. That was also an act of war.
I despise the Iranian government, but in this case, they were provoked.
With regard to old people, what constitutes good health? I submit that the ability to get around as much as you genuinely want to (not much), do pretty much what you feel like, and experience only mild pain comes to constitute good health, and I submit that there is a lot of it going around.
Your unquestioning support for Israel, no matter what, is unpleasant.
Israel is a tiny state, strategically unimportant, morally bankrupt, an apartheid state which treats its Palestinian citizens much as the Jim Crow South treated Blacks. Object, boy, and you get this: Smack!
Israel created the mess in Gaza, and it insisted the God of Hosts shakes with indignation at the spectacle of the bullied fighting back with vicious tactics learned from those holding the Torah close.
That Iran, an ancient civilization, is run by malevolent theocrats and corrupt grabbers, doesn't make Israel good, as it is run in much the same way.
It is not our fight, and to think of Israel as an ally is naive; We give, they take, and we jump ahead to open the door for them. Pfui.
"Heads up for those on a college campus: the western democracies are the good guys"
Are they? I mean, is it a bit reductionist to say "good guys vs bad guys" — Kissinger, Cheney, etc.!?
Re: Israel - Iran. You ask why would Iran attack now when Israel’s allies are/were working to haul in Israel’s offensive in Gaza? For the same reason Hamas attacked Israel. Israel’s (over)-reaction unites the Palestinian/Iranian citizens behind the terrorists/Iranians involved in the attacks. It reminds their citizenry how much Israel has been and continues to be a disruptive force in their lives. Can you say a continuing thorn in their sides? If Israel’s allies were to be successful in reining in Israel, it would lessen the conflict and hatred which the leaders of those countries depend on to keep the battle going.
As much as I support Israel, even with BiBi in charge, there is one fact that keeps getting overlooked: The Israeli attack, which Iran responded to, sent missiles into the Iranian embassy in Syria. For more than a century, attacking an embassy has been regarded as an an act of war. It is no surprise that the Iranians responded with force. Syria also has reason to declare war on Israel; a missile attack on their soil is also an act of war.
A week or so ago, Ecuador sent armed troops into the Mexican embassy to extract a former Ecuadorian government official who had asked for asylum there. That was also an act of war.
I despise the Iranian government, but in this case, they were provoked.
With regard to old people, what constitutes good health? I submit that the ability to get around as much as you genuinely want to (not much), do pretty much what you feel like, and experience only mild pain comes to constitute good health, and I submit that there is a lot of it going around.
Your unquestioning support for Israel, no matter what, is unpleasant.
Israel is a tiny state, strategically unimportant, morally bankrupt, an apartheid state which treats its Palestinian citizens much as the Jim Crow South treated Blacks. Object, boy, and you get this: Smack!
Israel created the mess in Gaza, and it insisted the God of Hosts shakes with indignation at the spectacle of the bullied fighting back with vicious tactics learned from those holding the Torah close.
That Iran, an ancient civilization, is run by malevolent theocrats and corrupt grabbers, doesn't make Israel good, as it is run in much the same way.
It is not our fight, and to think of Israel as an ally is naive; We give, they take, and we jump ahead to open the door for them. Pfui.
It is not a hush money case. It is an election interference case. Don’t trivialize it.