“I told Prime Minister Netanyahu that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks — sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel,” Biden said.

  • Karyoplasma
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    What does the headline mean with “counterattack”? Iran wouldn’t have attacked if Israel didn’t bomb their consulate in Syria. Why is Israel painted as the victim here?

    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

    • @[email protected]
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      It should be a crime to still be using that phrase, but in this case it doesn’t even make sense. What “stupid prizes” did Israel win? The recent strike in Syria killed a high ranking IRGC general and Iran’s retaliatory efforts were mostly intercepted, with the only Israeli casualty as of now is an injured 10 year old girl.

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    Biden and his senior advisers are highly concerned an Israeli response to Iran’s attack on Israel would lead to a regional war with catastrophic consequences, U.S. officials said.

    But thats what Israel wants. Thats why they attacked Iran in the first place.

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    There’s no reason expect escalation at this time. Netanyahu got the IRGC commander and generals he wanted in the reckless embassy attack. Iran responded with last night’s attack on Israel and deemed the response conclusive.

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        Are you fucking stupid? Shutting down commerce in the USA might actually do something to make a statement in the USA. Fuck Israel and fuck what they notice. We’re trying to disrupt business markets at home.

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          Let’s be realistic here, we’ll be lucky if any kind of demonstration, especially for an issue not happening at home, lasts an afternoon. Hell, we’ve had some pretty big stuff happen here that barely kinda sorta had any impact by demonstrations (after George Floyd’s murder comes to mind)

  • @[email protected]
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    126 days ago

    Yes because he’s listened to Biden so far? That monster has no problems with killing Palestinian children and killing Aid Workers and Journalists, he doesn’t care and Biden is not being tough enough on that war criminal

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      Would you rather have had him tell Israel the U.S. would assist in an attack on Iran?

      Because I guarantee you that Trump would have and I doubt that’s actually what you want.

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          I just love the idea of someone both being angry at Biden for not attacking Iran while also criticizing Trump, who would have been asking the joint chiefs when he can launch the first nuke by now.

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        Would you rather have had him tell Israel the U.S. would assist in an attack on Iran?

        I’d rather have confidence that he won’t assist anyway.

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        Yeah, actually.

        At least then he’d be being honest.

        I still wouldn’t vote for him, but it would be preferable to lies.

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            I wasn’t born yesterday.

            Do you think the US won’t attack Iran if it legitimately threatened Israel?

            • Flying Squid
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              I can’t predict the future like you, sorry. But I’d love to borrow your crystal ball and buy some lottery tickets if you wouldn’t mind.

                • Flying Squid
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                  You do know this statement was about what is happening right now and not about what might happen if Iran carried out some hypothetical future attack, right?