Israel versus Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, aid workers, and journalists. 2023-24

I was just emailing with a friend originally from Egypt about the greater Israel project… :sob:

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It’s always “funny” that when the US and Israel are looking to the wider Middle East for support for The Only Liberal Democracy in The Middle East ™ it’s always Bonesaw’s crowd that is the “gold standard”.

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… otherwise known as a “war” :thinking:

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That’s what people called them last century, but now they’re just “combat operations” when you don’t like the opponents. :disappointed:

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Hiding behind women and children, eh?

Even if innocent people were being used as shields, how the hell would that make it ok to massacre them in the first place? :rage:

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Israel says ‘localised, targeted ground raids’ under way against Hezbollah in Lebanon

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Politico:

US officials quietly backed Israel’s military push against Hezbollah

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/30/us-israel-military-hezbollah-00181797

More women and children killed in Gaza by Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a single year – Oxfam

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More notable for a BBC journalist being allowed to call this an “invasion” than anything else.

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I see that as indications that Israel is softening up the ground for a very large assault on Iran: “tell them it’s retaliation for something we said they were going to do. They’ll totally buy that again.”

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IDF says Iran has launched missiles towards Israel
A short while ago, missiles were launched from Iran towards Israel, the Israeli military says in a statement.

It adds that sirens have sounded all across Israel.

published at 17:35 British Summer Time
17:35 BST

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