You might add that Iran funds, backs, and trains Hamas, Hezbollah, and (previously) Assad. It isn't just eliminationist rhetoric; it's genocidal actions to surround Israel on all sides.
No need to add it because it’s already there in the original: Iran built up what it calls the ‘Axis of Resistance,’ funding and arming proxy groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Occupied Territories, the Houthis in Yemen, and other Shiite militias across the region.
Re: Fordow. Israel got to Nasrallah thru 50-60ft of reinforced concrete. I read (forgot the source and it could obviously have been wrong but still) that they just used smaller munitions repeatedly until they broke thru. I'm sure there are differences between Fordow and whatever hole Nasrallah was in, but with true air superiority the same type of plan could well be successful.
You forgot to mention that the attack on Iran gives distracts from what Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank. It also distracts from Netanyahu's political problesm.
It's rather hypocritical for Israel, who will not disclose how many nuclear weapons they have (estimated to be between 70 and 400) or submit their facilities to inspections, to bomb Iran who has been open to inspections and was willing to negotiate until Israel killed the head negotiator.
You forgot to mention that it's illegal to kill scientists and their families in their beds in a civilian complex. It's illegal to bomb a country for their ideology. Israel has been the aggressor since always we've been hearing "they're about to make the bomb" for several decades now. It's tired. And suspicious when Iran is more transparent than Israel.
Israel is hated, not because it's Jewish, but because it's killing thousands and thousands of people—not just inside it's own borders but in four other countries. This essay makes Israel out to be a vulnerable, vicitimized country, when in fact it has bottomless financial backing and a steady stream of the best weapons in the world from the US, UK, and Germany. Just to name a few. Israel, by way of alliances, is one of the most powerful countries in the world. And they're using these resources to slaughter civilians. Who happen to be largely Muslim. Not surprising that Muslim countries don't have a favorable few of Israel.
In any case, they can't just pre-emptively bomb another state and call it legal. Or act surprised when they are attacked in return.
I think a lot of what you have written is projections of things that are beyond the scope of the piece. If there’s something specific I’ve written that you think is wrong, please let me know and I can address that.
You might add that Iran funds, backs, and trains Hamas, Hezbollah, and (previously) Assad. It isn't just eliminationist rhetoric; it's genocidal actions to surround Israel on all sides.
No need to add it because it’s already there in the original: Iran built up what it calls the ‘Axis of Resistance,’ funding and arming proxy groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Occupied Territories, the Houthis in Yemen, and other Shiite militias across the region.
Re: Fordow. Israel got to Nasrallah thru 50-60ft of reinforced concrete. I read (forgot the source and it could obviously have been wrong but still) that they just used smaller munitions repeatedly until they broke thru. I'm sure there are differences between Fordow and whatever hole Nasrallah was in, but with true air superiority the same type of plan could well be successful.
FWIW Andrew Fox addressed this very topic in his Substack article today. There is more than one way to skin this particular cat.
Yeah I saw that - but if that’s the case, why hasn’t it been tried already?
Fair point. Perhaps destruction of Fordow will be the culmination of Israel’s strategy?
You forgot to mention that the attack on Iran gives distracts from what Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank. It also distracts from Netanyahu's political problesm.
It's rather hypocritical for Israel, who will not disclose how many nuclear weapons they have (estimated to be between 70 and 400) or submit their facilities to inspections, to bomb Iran who has been open to inspections and was willing to negotiate until Israel killed the head negotiator.
You forgot to mention that it's illegal to kill scientists and their families in their beds in a civilian complex. It's illegal to bomb a country for their ideology. Israel has been the aggressor since always we've been hearing "they're about to make the bomb" for several decades now. It's tired. And suspicious when Iran is more transparent than Israel.
Israel is hated, not because it's Jewish, but because it's killing thousands and thousands of people—not just inside it's own borders but in four other countries. This essay makes Israel out to be a vulnerable, vicitimized country, when in fact it has bottomless financial backing and a steady stream of the best weapons in the world from the US, UK, and Germany. Just to name a few. Israel, by way of alliances, is one of the most powerful countries in the world. And they're using these resources to slaughter civilians. Who happen to be largely Muslim. Not surprising that Muslim countries don't have a favorable few of Israel.
In any case, they can't just pre-emptively bomb another state and call it legal. Or act surprised when they are attacked in return.
I think a lot of what you have written is projections of things that are beyond the scope of the piece. If there’s something specific I’ve written that you think is wrong, please let me know and I can address that.