I agree that Israel is by far the most belligerent nation-state on the planet but you’d think that if they were using a nuke they’d at least test it in the remote desert or mountains of Iran, not ON Tehran after lying for decades about whether or not they have nukes

It can’t be nukes, right? There’s just no way it can be nukes

Iran is definitely facing the same issue, but I think Iran (and Israel) have identified Iran’s win condition: Make the already overextended Zionist state unsustainable through exodus. Iranians have nowhere to go and will fight for Iran. Israelis are attempting to flee in such large quantities that Israel banned nationals from leaving on flights.

Yeah. I have wondered the same about Israel my whole life. It is analogous to apartheid in South Africa, but conditions and privileged class size are dramatically different, so it didn’t seem like a “critical mass” of native peoples would be able to topple it unless every Palestinian refugee from Gaza, the West Bank, and surrounding countries that were displaced by the Nakba suddenly encroached peacefully back to their homeland. Obviously unlikely to happen.

After October 7, I think the actual strategy finally started making sense to me when we started seeing mass exodus of settlers to nations they hold dual citizenship. You do not necessarily need to defeat the Israeli military to beat Israel, you simply need the state to become unsustainable. It is already spread so thin that hemorrhaging settler population is something it simply can’t afford to do. All of its institutions rely on steady influx of settlers as well as a relatively high domestic birth rate. This is only sustained because of the Nazi-esque pseudoscience and mythology that Israel’s privileged class is safe because of their superiority to their neighbors AS A PEOPLE, and if you are Jewish YOU TOO are one of those superior people and you should move to Israel.

The most sad part about it is that there are actually Jews native to Palestine, before Zionism, with a real culture and history and connection to the land who have been the victimized by Israeli settler-colonialism. Like all settler colonies, the beliefs and history of the native people could not coexist alongside that of the settlers. Their native beliefs and culture and lifestyle have been systematically twisted and thus erased by a fascist project with no actual interest in protecting the storied history of Jews native to Palestine, or anywhere for that matter. The Zionist entity’s only goal, as a fascist settler-colonial project, was to create a new, “superior” Jewish identity to those of old; one that strategically dismantles, co-opts, tosses away, or corrupts the REAL incredible stories, history, and unique cultures of Jewish diaspora as a truly globe-spanning people. The fascist Zionist project crushes all of that down and spins it into the same, tired, all encompassing lie that every fascist state tells its people.

We all know the mythology that built Israel up: their supposedly heroic and invincible armies against the Arab coalitions, their “turning the desert green” myth, their “all Jews are diaspora from this land” myth, its “best cuisine in the world and totally not co-opted actual cultural dishes” myth, its “only democracy in the Middle East” myth, its being an integral part of “an ancient western belief” in Judeo-Christian values, and so on and so on. The millisecond that bubble of superiority is popped, Israel loses everything because it never actually had anything. When there is no sense of superiority to believe in, there genuinely is no Israel.

Maybe a hot take but they shouldn’t make an Israel anywhere. This would just make it so there is a Palestine in Europe.

They have not. They have not claimed any of the sporadic cumulative handful of drones that Israel claims to have shot down. They also haven’t used their most advanced missile tech or least advanced missile tech.

22 American military tankers have landed at airfields across Europe after simultaneously leaving the U.S. late last night, while three have continued directly towards the Middle East.

2 in Aviano Air Base, Italy 11 in Morón Air Base, Spain 4 in Ramstein Air Base, Germany 4 in Prestwick, Occupied Scotland 1 in Tallin, Estonia

Will update when we find out where exactly the three still en route to the Middle East land.

Frankly, I have not seen a more clear sign that a country is preparing to enter a conflict since Russia amassing troops nearish Ukraine pre-SMO. All tankers departed from the United States at nearly the same exact time Sunday night, which is relatively unusual unless an order was issued.

Apparently there have not been Israeli jet incursions since early Sunday morning/late Saturday night.

Their “air superiority” they allegedly established over Iran seems to be when they just flood a small zone with hundreds of jets, in which case anybody would establish superiority for a brief period of time

Hmmmmm why are IDF soldiers hiding in a school

Stacey Abrams, the democrats’ favorite perennial loser, is also in attendance. Imagine having to explain who you are to important figures from around the world and your answer is “Yeah I was the losing candidate in the race for Georgia’s governorship 600 times”

Iran does not need to get more aggressive. Their strikes are steadily whittling down critical Israeli infrastructure, heavily demoralizing the settler population (Israel had to BAN citizens from leaving on flights out of the country, all of which sold out completely for the next week as of Saturday), and also whittling away at critical stock of anti-missile defenses. There have been noticeably fewer anti-missile munitions launched at Iranian strikes in the past two waves, meaning Israel likely sees that Iran is ready to keep this up to the point Israel may begin to run out of missile defense munitions.

All of this while Iran has not yet used its most basic missile technology or its most advanced missile technology. There is probably very real discussion within Iranian military planning circles of whether or not to push this to the point that we begin to truly see Israel begin to collapse. Many think collapse has already begun, myself included. Iran has popped the bubble of Israeli invulnerability the exact same way Cuban troops did by defeating apartheid South African forces.

Defeating apartheid is much easier than we seem to think. You don’t have to overthrow the regime, you have to make the small, privileged class truly believe that they are no longer safe from the consequences of their actions.

Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons like how the United States and Israel misled Iran to believe peace talks were underway until Israel launched an unprompted war of aggression against Iran

Death to Israel. May the Jewish people find actual peace in their actual ancestral homelands across Europe and the Middle East/North Africa.

Thank you for the correction

The nukes were always for if Israel was going to face imminent invasion from another Arab coalition. There’s no situation that they can use them here and not immediately lose all face on the global stage. They will cease to exist as a state

Nevatim airbase in the Negev desert was directly struck by multiple Iranian missiles and is on fire

I didn’t think this would be possible? I thought Israel only had the most competent 18 year olds working anti-missile batteries

This is highly highly unusual. They would not send this many for training

Not a chance. Israel is less likely to continue existing as a state if it did something like that