As the G7 issues a statement declaring that Israel has a “right to defend itself”, you have a right to ask if you are losing your mind. Israel launched an unprovoked onslaught on Iran. Its excuse – that Tehran may acquire a nuclear weapon – renders its attack illegal under the UN charter, which forbids wars justified by the claim of a future threat.
“Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror,” declares the G7 statement. Even though Donald Trump’s intelligence chief testified three months ago that the US intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon”. Even though it’s Israel that actually possesses nuclear weapons, while refusing to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and refusing International Atomic Energy Agency inspections. Even though, as progress was being made in nuclear talks between Iran and the US, Israel targeted Iran’s chief negotiator and proceeded to exterminate scientists, including their families, alongside countless other civilians, including children, an athlete, a teacher, a pilates instructor. Even though Israel’s leader is subject to an arrest warrant, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. And even though Israel has erased Gaza in a genocidal frenzy, and subjected the illegally occupied and colonised West Bank to an escalating pogrom, attacked southern Lebanon and Beirut, and invaded and occupied Syria. No country in the Middle East is as great a source of regional instability and terror as Israel: it’s not even close.
Let’s keep it civil, Beeple.
Bold of you to assume they’re making a mistake instead of simply telling lies.
It’s not Israel or Iran or whatever, it’s the region itself:
- Main land bridge from Africa to the rest of the world
- Scarce in basic resources like water and arable land
- Lately, plentiful in oil, which everyone wants some of
Add to that some religions where everyone can go “but before that, you [insert aggression]” for thousands of years back, and it’s no longer about any dozen of countries.
Rather than ask “who is a greater source of instability”, one should ask “which country is a source of any stability”.
Main land bridge from Africa to the rest of the world
Well, until the Suez canal.
Iran is working on a bomb. You do not enrich uranium to 60% for anything else. Commercial uses are like 3%. So, the question is what to do. Nothing, they get nuclear weapons which is clearly their intent. Negotiation is just a delaying tactic and got us to here. So what remains to be done?
Same story for 30+ years from the same western governments and media who said Iraq had WMDs, 0% chance Iran is developing nukes and I’d 100% support them making nukes if they chose to, the US is the only country who has ever used them and we dropped them on fucking civilians we have no room to talk
And of course I would disagree regarding nuclear weapons if it can be prevented by whatever means. What route that needs to take I have no idea. People act like war with Iran is like a new thing. Iran has been waging war with the west both directly and indirectly for 50 years. It is not surprising that Israel and the west in general might respond to this in some way at their own time and place.
Their drone, missile, and nuclear programs are of specific concern. The cost of missile defense and drone defense in particular is more costly then the missiles and drones. Plus it is never 100% which means nukes are an even bigger issue. So there is a concerning trajectory combined with long history of experience with Iran and their stated intent.
Ironically it is Iran after all that decided to turn up the temperature at this point in time by supporting the Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthi’s, and a half a dozen groups across the middle east, then stupidly launching their own direct attacks on Israel. Moreover they have been directly supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine which has huge implications. Not surprising this might come back to bite them.
So I am not excited about US involvement, but people should not be surprised either. It will be interesting what the US does. Trump is a weak and largely incompetent president, and the US is quite strongly isolationist at the moment. Frankly the general incompetence of the current administration probably makes a hot war more likely. History has shown too that Republicans in power tends to make that more likely too.
You are either delusional/historically and politically illiterate or straight up evil and deliberately lying, the US has no ethical justification for our ongoing hostility towards Iran or our involvement in the middle east in general, it is and has always been about money, oil opium and the needs of the military industrial complex
Yes and Trump is certainly in the pocket of big oil. Do not forget trade routes too and open navigation.
Lol k
Its just fundamentally the wrong way to resolve the issue.
Bombing and going to war with Iran will do nothing except convince them they need a nuclear weapon to prevent further attacks. E.g. Ukraine.
You can’t murder people fast enough to no longer make their position irrelevant (even with war crimes).
I disagree. Iran is actually different. The other three nations were extremely impoverished, Iran has rich fucks.
the consent manufacturing machine is really at full tilt right now.
I think Israel is reaching the end of the patience of a lot of public figures in the west and they’re trying to regain the news cycle by pivoting the focus away from their attempts to clear out the strip of people for the sake of land development.
Major mainstream media outlets were finally starting to go “hey they shot at a bunch of people waiting in line for food… what the fuck?” and so now a new conflict must occur to lead news cycles and force public figures to take a side.
