The view from Israel on Iran: ‘If the US asks, we will answer’ [article for reference purposes, I do not endorse opinion] (www.thetimes.com)
from supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to world@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 21:38
https://sopuli.xyz/post/41430216

Nonetheless, the notion of a forthcoming war has been the main topic of conversation in news studios and cafés across the country because Israelis are exhausted by two years of *warfare with Gaza and Hamas’s allies.

*Genocide of Palestinians

Dan Diker, who has authored books on Iran’s race for regional supremacy and who heads the Jerusalem Centre for Security and Foreign Affairs, said: “Israel faces an existential threat by the Iranian regime’s ballistic missile programme, which is understood to include up to 2,000 missiles currently with a ramped-up production rate.

“The current Iranian ballistic missile threat can potentially overwhelm Israel’s anti-missile defence systems. Therefore, if Israel senses that there is an imminent ballistic attack it’s reasonable to assume [with] the way Israel acted in June 2025 that it will again neutralise the Iranian regime ballistic missile threat whether it takes the lead or it follows the US lead or works in tandem.”

I feel like I am standing in a casino cacophony except instead of a sea of slot machine sounds it is a sea of BOMB IRAN levers being pulled over and over again endlessly.

…sure yeah that is what is coming, I sure believe that, this definitely isn’t just a threat

#world

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green_red_black@slrpnk.net on 19 Feb 23:04 next collapse

I always head ban a wall at the diaspora communities fighting for their own freedom and self determination that cheer on the US Imperialism doing military action against dictatorships.

The US isn’t doing such a thing out of the goodness of their hearts nor is the plan to bring about Liberation.

The goal is to take out another competitor in the game of Imperialism, should the Monarchy return or the moderate faction of the Theocratic Republic take power (Latter I think is more likely.) Iran will still be oppressed and the Oligarchs the only ones to profit

RockBottom@feddit.org on 20 Feb 00:09 next collapse

Maybe oil is a religion. Why go to war over it in 2026?

kurmudgeon@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 05:52 next collapse

Fuck Israel and fuck Donald Trump’s desire to go to war. And this dipshit thought he should get a Nobel Peace Prize? SMH.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 20 Feb 11:41 collapse

“If the US asks, we will answer.”

And the answer will be “Go ahead, we’re behind you all the way, suckers.”