Israel: Euphoria gives way to fear after Iranian missiles rain down on Tel Aviv (www.middleeasteye.net)
from pete_link@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 21:44
https://lemmy.ml/post/31697796

By Lubna Masarwa Published date: 14 June 2025 17:12 BST

Still, fires and plumes of smoke could be seen in several areas of Tel Aviv, while explosions were also reported in Jerusalem.

Images and videos verified by Middle East Eye showed apartment blocks in Tel Aviv’s suburbs and the nearby city of Ramat Gan almost completely destroyed and the wreckage of several vehicles among the debris.

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rumimevlevi@lemmings.world on 14 Jun 21:51 next collapse

They should start begging like dogs

Eldritch@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 22:11 next collapse

Rindeed raggy

Nay@feddit.nl on 15 Jun 00:48 collapse

Don’t be like that. Dogs are awesome.

rumimevlevi@lemmings.world on 15 Jun 00:52 collapse

The elemwnt of comparison is begging and barking

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jun 22:05 next collapse

FAFO

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 14 Jun 22:45 collapse

If they hadn’t destroyed some portion of Iran’s ballistic missiles, it could have been much worse and really deter future FA. Now I’m not sure if the FO would be enough to do that. When I say enough, I mean destroy enough of Israel’s air force infrastructure so that their bombing capabilities are severely diminished. Not flattening residential buildings.

HasturInYellow@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 16:45 next collapse

I’ll be honest, Iran doesn’t seem to target military assets all that much. Or at least, the air defence is much better around those areas. Which isn’t crazy.

Hacksaw@lemmy.ca on 15 Jun 22:05 collapse

I think you wildly overestimate Iran’s ability to target. These missiles aren’t “kill nuclear scientists in their apartment” they’re “aim at a city and hope it lands”

Iran has ballistic missiles, which is an achievement, but aiming a rocket going at that speed with any accuracy is a monumental (read: expensive) engineering challenge.

evenglow@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 22:18 next collapse

a 67-year-old Israeli living in central Israel, told MEE that after initially supporting the strikes against Iran, reality quickly hit home that Israel was vulnerable and that Israelis, just like Iranians, could also be targeted.

“The attack surprised me,” Yafa-Niger said.

Lumidaub@feddit.org on 14 Jun 22:31 next collapse

This reads so much like an Onion. Just needs some leopards.

And then the guy’s first name is Orly. What am I, a chronically online millennial, supposed to do with that?

zqwzzle@lemmy.ca on 14 Jun 23:25 collapse

Ya rly?

Lumidaub@feddit.org on 15 Jun 00:43 collapse

Srsly.

ewo@lemmy.sdf.org on 15 Jun 08:09 collapse

No Wai!

5in1k@lemm.ee on 16 Jun 09:35 collapse

How can she slap?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 14 Jun 23:07 next collapse

Not quite the same as massacring starving people who can’t fight back, is it?

I mean, fuck the mullahs, but how often has Iran invaded any other country in the past century? I believe that number is zero. Compare that to Israel’s assaults on its neighbors and the massive civilian casualties that those assaults caused.

And who was the idiot who abrogated the US nuclear non-proliferation treaty with Iran? Oh yeah, it was Trump in his first term.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 14 Jun 23:30 next collapse

Iran has participated in a number of regional conflicts, including sending their own forces to support another country, but can’t find any instances of Iran invading another country. As far as I know, that’s just not something they do.

saltesc@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 01:49 next collapse
Crashumbc@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 09:14 collapse

Iran follows the US doctrine as much as they can. They do everything they can through proxies, trying to avoid direct conflict.

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 08:18 next collapse

Lady friend was looking through her social media and one of her tik toks just showed U.S. troops getting Steak and Lobster. They were questioning if it was really for the stupid birthday or the alternative is they usually do steak and lobster when our troops are about to get shafted (usually a deployment meal for the Marines/Navy)

Kaput@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 19:24 collapse

youtu.be/bRkfDMChzlI key element of victory

AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf on 15 Jun 08:20 next collapse

They participated in the Iran-Iraq war, but that was started by Sadaam IIRC.

mriswith@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 09:23 next collapse

Yeah, that was started when Iraq invaded them.

AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf on 15 Jun 18:53 collapse

Yeah that’s what I thought, I just couldn’t remember.

Kaput@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 10:25 collapse

Wasn’t Sadaam doing USA bidding during Iran Irak war?

AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf on 16 Jun 18:42 collapse

Honestly I’m not sure. I don’t know that part of history very well at all, and wouldn’t want to venture a guess.

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Maeve@kbin.earth on 14 Jun 23:11 next collapse

"The Israeli public has been convinced over the years that it can exist here in the region while deeply disdaining all its neighbours and rampaging in a thuggish and murderous manner against everyone - whenever and however it wants - relying solely on brute force.
"That's why there was something so substantial about the sight of the bombed-out buildings in Ramat Gan," he said.
"They are so similar to the images we're used to seeing from Gaza. Those sooty grey skeletons of buildings, that billowing cloud of dust, that carpet of ash and rubble covering the street, those images of children's dolls in the hands of rescue teams.
"The scale is, of course, completely different, but these images are nevertheless a momentary rupture of this disturbed fantasy that we are immune to everything," he added.

United States citizens should take note. We never seem to appreciate the consequences of our actions, at home or abroad, until they return to us. The people in the global South, the East, Middle -East--people around the world-- are humans like us, with struggles, sorrows, dreams and aspirations. We need to shake the boot off our necks, then lift it off our neighbors ' necks.

FelixCress@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 06:27 collapse

United States citizens should take note. We never seem to appreciate the consequences of our actions, at home or abroad, until they return to us.

You don’t after they return to you either, with WTC being an example. If anything you doubled down.

Maeve@kbin.earth on 15 Jun 10:31 next collapse

I noticed, and was deeply ashamed. That was a one-off, though. I can't say it would be different if it were more it would be different, but it may be.

Deflated0ne@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 14:18 collapse

Doubled down hard. But it’s ok. We’re getting ours now. We’re looking great on the financial markets. But it’s all collapsing internally. Infrastructure. People are going hungry. Millions homeless because Private Equity decided it wanted to own literally all the houses and turn them all into rentals that are unaffordable for most people. Between climate change and racism we’re months away from supply chain failures when it comes to food. On top of that AI is putting whole industries worth of people out of work. All with no safety nets whatsoever. Just this ingrained nonsensical idea that “Poverty is a choice”.

We’re at the state of late stage capitalism where the system cannibalizes itself.

Buelldozer@lemmy.today on 15 Jun 00:05 next collapse

Start shit, get hit.

middlemanSI@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 00:49 next collapse

Will no one think of the genociders?

fox2263@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 15:12 next collapse

Now Israel knows what it’s like to be a Gazan

Revan343@lemmy.ca on 15 Jun 20:23 next collapse

Not yet

TheFriar@lemm.ee on 16 Jun 20:04 collapse

Not even close

nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org on 15 Jun 21:16 next collapse

If killing civilians and starting a war makes you euphoric, you’re not a good human being.

match@pawb.social on 15 Jun 21:53 collapse

or at the very least you feel way too safe

nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org on 15 Jun 22:47 collapse

Everyone deserves to feel safe. Except for Nazis, slavers, and the like.

match@pawb.social on 16 Jun 01:16 next collapse

Yes everyone (except the above) deserves to feel safe. But there can be a feeling of too safe, a jobu tupaki feeling, the feeling you are invulnerable and unstoppable and that you can kill indiscriminately at a whim. That’s feeling too safe.

bombermanz@lemmings.world on 16 Jun 09:56 collapse

isrealis are the “the like” category

leftzero@lemmynsfw.com on 15 Jun 21:44 next collapse

All according to plan.

The Israeli government needs Israel to be a perpetual victim to justify perpetual war.

When no enemy is attacking they need to force an attack, lest their citizenship stop living in constant fear long enough for them to question the need for perpetual war.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 22:45 collapse

Netanyahu is up two points right now. Israel is a doomed society.

dutchkimble@lemy.lol on 15 Jun 21:48 next collapse

What happened to the iron dome?

idriss@lemm.ee on 16 Jun 09:43 next collapse

it only works against rocks and fireworks not a properly armed nation

Kennystillalive@feddit.org on 16 Jun 09:48 next collapse

ELI5: There are rockets that can’t be blocked by the dome. There is another system for these rockets but they can be overwhelmed easier than the dome. (They still block, but not as efficient as the dome so way more rockets hit.)

qaz@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 09:49 collapse

It got overwhelmed due to the large quantity of projectiles afaik

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com on 15 Jun 21:49 next collapse

Israelis sowing: hehehe, this is fun

Israelis reaping: okay what the fuck?

electric_nan@lemmy.ml on 16 Jun 19:00 next collapse

All the suffering and death that Israel has caused for decades, is purely the result of its insulation from consequences. If Israel had to face any real resistance to its behavior, it would be forced to negotiate in good faith like a normal country.

MuskyMelon@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 07:46 collapse

Israel is the kid who sucker punches you and then runs and hides behind their big brother.

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca on 16 Jun 20:01 next collapse

It’s been a long time since the six-day-war. Most states in the middle east are more technologically capable than they were in 67. I’m thinking it’s time for that coalition to form up again and gang bang Bibi and his buddies. We’d see some different results.

TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee on 16 Jun 20:33 next collapse

I know this sounds kind of childish but… why can’t we all just chill out? For like A SECOND?

Deflated0ne@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 14:10 collapse

I love that for them. After all the dancing and cheering as they did worse to the Palestinians. Music festivals. Beach trips and parties.

Good for them.