I was just emailing with a friend originally from Egypt about the greater Israel project…
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”.
… otherwise known as a “war”
That’s what people called them last century, but now they’re just “combat operations” when you don’t like the opponents.
Even if innocent people were being used as shields, how the hell would that make it ok to massacre them in the first place?
Israel says ‘localised, targeted ground raids’ under way against Hezbollah in Lebanon
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
More notable for a BBC journalist being allowed to call this an “invasion” than anything else.
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.”
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
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