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[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 42 points 4 days ago
[–] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 24 points 3 days ago

What a shock it must be to be asleep in your house and have some foreign country bomb the fuck out of non-military targets.

What a shame. Couldn't happen to a nicer people I suppose.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 137 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"The Israeli military ordered an investigation into what went wrong"

You dumbfucks attacked a people that were willing/able to hit back, that's what went wrong you absolute blithering assholes!

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Do not mind the black van with mossad agents outside your house, citizen. Thank you for your cooperation

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 28 points 4 days ago

Israel isn't very used to adults that can shoot back at them, are they?

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Gaza, Beiruit, Tehran, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Literally why saying were only sending defensive arms is pointless. Giving them protection from their own violent instigations only let's them do more damage rather than keep the country safe.

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I have heard it described as like providing a bulletproof vest to a school shooter

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 4 days ago

Boy, it sure does suck when assholes miles away blow your shit up, huh? Maybe there's a lesson to be learned here.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good. Israel's people won't ever demand reforms, if they don't suffer for the evils they have supported.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How often is it that people demand reforms versus become galvanized in support of 'their team'?

'Rally behind the flag' is the usual popular reaction, where any calls for reform that might have happened become completely unacceptable in popular culture.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Considering what was already happening to Gaza and Palestine, plus the egging on of the USA into war against Iran, I think Israel was already fully galvanized to make war. Israel up to this point has suffered no consequences for their actions, so there wasn't real pressure to change things. Plus, they were taking territory from others and were enriching their populations - which is pretty popularizing by default.

Iran, on the other hand, wasn't gaining new territories to grease the palms of their citizens. That gave much stronger incentives for their population to be opposed to their leadership, up until they got bombed by "freedom".

Different nations, different circumstances.

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[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 48 points 4 days ago

Start war, get war.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

SHOCKED! They are SHOCKED I tell you!

Can we get "journalists" a new thesaurus please?

[–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

sorry israel killed them all

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Shocked and slammed isnt enough for you?

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

Well I hope Israel gets the same great humanitarian treatment, which they have showned towards others.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 37 points 4 days ago

Is the Israeli public “shocked” that missile defenses are not working? I thought that this has been the widely known since the “12 Day War” last year?

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 55 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Dimona, where the second missile hit, is perilously close to Israel’s main nuclear reactor and research site. Iranian state media said the strike targeted the nuclear facility in retaliation for an attack on an Iranian nuclear enrichment site at Natanz, though the IDF has said it was unaware of that operation.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 54 points 5 days ago (3 children)

So Israel used a civilian neighborhood as a human shield for it's nuclear facility?

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes. You know how they kept saying that hamas was under hospitals and shit? It’s projection. It always is with fascists.

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Mm yes "unaware" of course...

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 27 points 4 days ago

Never happened. Mr Trump says we already won the war. This is just a Democrat hoax.

/S

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

The started a war with a country full of crazy and could actually fight back and relied on a leader that waffles more than my local brunch place.

[–] krimson@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I find it very hard to believe no-one was killed.

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

It's a very weird feeling. Through the 2010s, you could piece together a more-or-less complete picture of a situation through a mixture of online sources and the media. Now we have full wartime censorship, plus engagement farming bots posting AI videos, or videos from a year ago purported to be from the present. There's no way to be sure of any specific piece of information, and we can only see the outline of the overall situation.

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[–] jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org 5 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I wish it were more.

Everyone living in Israel has the means to get out and they need to do it. Israel is one of the most expensive places to live; there is no excuse.

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[–] monkeyman76@fedinsfw.app 21 points 5 days ago (13 children)
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[–] entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I guess sometimes it is ok to vote for the lesser of two evils.

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