Securing a nation state for Jewish people at the expense of the Palestinians who have been living in the area for millennia.

This Jewish nation state was secured by colonial settler Jews not native to the region migrating to the region and taking land for themselves around a century ago after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. They are still to this day expanding their state by stealing the Palestinian land.

The hatred of Israel by its neighbors is not for no reason and it is not because they are Jews. The Irish were also not fans of the British colonising them, neither were the native people of the Americas when their land was stolen by European settlers. Israel is just another case of European settlers stealing land and causing trouble where they don’t belong.

Are we believing in polls again after they have been consistently wrong for the last decade? Almost as stupid as believing polls a year and a half out from a general election means something, like reading tea leaves at this stage. The incumbent is never popular at this point, extreme views at this point tend to temper at the polling booth, especially since the Spanish economy is doing well.

The Spanish public are still massively anti Israel due to all of their genocide and everything.

You have been called out several times for your lies about this picture, do you have anything to say to explain your position? You are accusing the Iranian regime for doctoring photos and then blatantly misrepresenting photos from an article without the context from the article? Hasbara is really scraping the bottom of the barrel these days…

This particular propaganda comes from an Israeli Zionist aligned publication. We need to carefully investigate the sources of the propaganda being fed to us on a daily basis. Hamas are also terrible but take what this propaganda is peddling with a pinch of salt.

The propaganda is everywhere. The other night on CNN they had an “Iran expert” speaking about the feeling of the people of Iran on the street and how they are all wanting the son of the Shah to return and lead a transitional government. This “expert” is Emily Schrader, a Zionist shill who has been advocating for war with Iran for years.

Did your mother never tell you that Wikipedia is not a source. Anybody can just edit it to say what they like. At least do the minimum and quote the source that Wikipedia used and it only referred to one election and one study carried out by a newspaper and the “Israeli Democracy Institute” who sound shady AF.

Yedioth Ahronoth is frequently critical of Benjamin Netanyahu.[20] A study conducted by Moran Rada with the Israeli Democracy Institute showed that Yedioth’s coverage of the 2009 Israeli legislative election was biased in favor of Kadima and its leader Tzipi Livni in most editorial decisions,

This soldier died in Saudi Arabia. Unlike the gulf war, Iran can strike back with greater accuracy than they were given credit for. This is nothing like the gulf war in terms of the capabilities of the opponent. The USA will also not be able to win this war with air strikes alone, boots on the ground will be needed.

The war criminals will keep committing war crimes as long as they are allowed to without punishment. Russia was kicked out of international sporting events and the Eurovision for less crimes against humanity than Russia.

Russia are obviously also scumbags but we should at least be evenhanded in our condemnation of Israel lest we look like the hypocrites our governments clearly are.

No thanks, I’ll stick to my 1000 monkeys writing on 1000 typewriters. “It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.” You stupid monkey!

Used to be cool…you might want to look a little bit further into IBMs past, specifically what they were doing during WW2…

We prepared for that, we lined up a type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat

I found this review paper interesting and I don’t doubt that nicotine can have therapeutic effects but the funding source worried me.

Conflict of interest

Authors YC, XW, XZ, HT, YZ, JZ, and SZ were employed China Tobacco Anhui Industrial Co., Ltd.

The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

The authors declare that this study received funding from Technology Project of Anhui Zhongyan Industry Co., Ltd. The funder had the involvement in the study design, data analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript.

Funding Statement The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was financially supported by the Technology Project of Anhui Zhongyan Industry Co., Ltd. (2022156), Science and Technology Projects of State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (110202201046XX-05), Startup Program of XMU and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

If you count the modern period as after 1900, there was no tension between the Jews and Palestinian Arabs because there were very few Jews actually living in the area. Jews made up about 3% of the population until the first Zionist conference in 1897. Following on from this, the colonial project began with European Jews moving to Palestine.

Historically every time a settler colonial population moves into a new area the demonise, oppress and attempt to kill off the native population. We had the British in Ireland, Spanish and Portuguese in south and central America, northern Europeans in North America, British again in Australia and new Zealand, European powers in the “race for Africa” and now the Jewish setter colonisers in Palestine. Israel does not want a two state solution, it is quite clear from the evidence at hand that the “greater Israel” project is their goal. The rest of the world needs to wake up to the obvious, Israel is shouting about it and the world is not listening. Boycott, Divest and Sanction the genocidal Zionists, this worked for South Africa and their apartheid regime.

No worries, it’s hard to keep track of who America has screwed over and when.

It was the CIA who put the “Shah” into power in the 1953 coup. Before this Iran had a democratically elected prime minister who nationalised the country’s oil, his name was Mohammad Mosaddegh. The USA have never been big fans of middle Eastern countries controlling their own oil.

Again your lack of comprehension shines as brightly as I’m sure your eyes would if I shone a torch in your ear. Have a great day :)

The US cannot just cut off trade with one EU country. If he tries to do this then EU policy is to act as one, the mechanisms for this are already in place. This is just more pointless bluster from the orange pedi.

Lol all your responses just to come to the conclusion that you don’t really care either way

How you came to that conclusion I have no idea. I am ashamed of myself for engaging with someone so lacking in basic comprehension and literacy.

Hahaha oh boy. Well I guess that if you’d know how stupid that remark actually is, you wouldn’t have made it

No need to play coy dude, my remark was based off of your comments and I stand by my statement.

at the same time you correctly point out that US intervention usually fails when they deploy on the ground

This is not the point where US intervention fails. The boots on the ground do their job quite well initially. Where the US fails is long term, they have no long term strategy for these nations they defeat beyond sitting around with their thumbs up their arses for several expensive decades while their opponents simply wait them out.

In terms of retaliation, I still do not believe Iran can do enough to deter the US and the US policy of overwhelming retaliation would just lead to their own destruction by following this path.

In terms of your might is right point on imperialism I would again refer you back to the last century and a bit where all of the great empires collapsed one by one, starting with the Ottoman’s, followed by the Germans, British, French and Russian. This was the century of the insurgent, TE Lawrence, Michael Collins, Vo Nguyen Giap amongst others.

In very few cases is the leader of a state solely responsible for the military actions of said state

The USA is one case where the president is actually Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Provided the order is not illegal, the army have to follow the order of their superior. Trump and the republican party have been going down the state capture route a long time now and there is no one left who will say no to him, as we have seen since he has come to office. Even if someone was brave enough to dissent the would be removed from their position without much thought.

To me it looks like Trump is going to get America dragged into another expensive forever war that with their current debt levels they cannot afford. The attempted decapitation looks like it will not lead to a quick end as Iran entrenches. The American people should rightly be asking the question of why are we striking Iran when Iran has not now or ever posed a real threat to the USA. This is Trump’s war, he never even asked for congressional approval. If he’s going to bankrupt the American people he should at least have a damn good explanation of why. We are all scratching our heads trying to figure this out.

What a sniveling response, every one of those killings were illegal murders by the USA, no trial, no jury just the executioner. Innocent until proven guilty is the law of the land in the USA, you sound like you believe brown middle eastern folk are not entitled to the same privilege.

Speaking of murdering innocent bystanders, the USA has form in indiscriminately bombing weddings to kill one target. The USA also backs its ally Israel to the hilt in their genocidal slaughter of Palestinians. The latest war led to innocent people being slaughtered at the highest rate compared to combatants of any war in history.

I understand the concept of tit for tat retaliation, the problem is American foreign policy for these instances is tit for tat tat. America makes sure its retaliatory responses are overwhelming making a tit for tat deterrence useless against them, this is the advantage of having the largest stick in the world. This is also why America’s rivals engage in asymmetric warfare with layers of plausible deniability.

This also assumes Iran is dealing with a rational actor acting logically, there is no evidence Trump is one in this case. This strike has no logical beneficial outcome for the American people, it will be interesting to see if Congress allows America to continue. Trumps reasons for doing Netenyahus bidding to the detriment of the American people is certainly a choice that we can all speculate on.

I disagree with your comparing Iran Vs US to the Brits Vs the Zulu’s. It is almost as if you have slept through the last 110 years of insurgency warfare and how effective it can be. Iran is a huge country with a population of 90 million. The USA can bomb with impunity sure but Iran has more people than Afghanistan and Iraq combined with greater military capabilities. Boots on the ground will be needed, you can’t win a war with stand off munitions alone. America was entirely unsuccessful with their previous two attempts at regime change by force this century, why would they do better against a bigger and better armed country? Look at the bunch of clowns in charge in America currently, I would not trust them to mind my plants for a week away let alone regime change in Iran.