Israel has all but declared war in the Middle East – a conflict it cannot hope to win
Failure to halt the war in Gaza lies at the heart of the latest lethal savagery in the Middle East. The assassination in Tehran of Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, will be celebrated in Israel as just revenge for the 7 October atrocities. But Islamist hardliners in Iran and militant groups across the Arab world will see it as further proof of their belief that the state of Israel is a menace that must be destroyed at all costs.
And so the hatred, the violence and the misery will continue unchecked, and will in all probability worsen and spread. Just because this homicidal cycle is familiar does not mean it cannot accelerate. Few parts of the Middle East – Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan – have escaped the toxic fallout of the Gaza conflict. In Washington DC and Britain, domestic politics are roiled by the fury and the grief. The UN’s impotence is daily, humiliatingly exposed. No one is immune to this poison.
It would have been preferable if Haniyeh, in common with Hamas leaders based in Gaza, had faced trial at the international criminal court (ICC) – and been made to answer for his crimes. That now cannot happen. Instead, Israel has once again sought “justice” through extrajudicial murder. Only in April, a covert Israeli strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus killed a top Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps general – and brought the region to the brink of all-out war. There have been numerous similar killings.
The man overseeing these assassinations, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and chief architect of the continuing genocidal campaign against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, should be forced to answer for his crimes, too. The ICC’s chief prosecutor is trying to ensure that happens, despite US opposition. But there is little sign it will. More likely, given the example he sets, is that Netanyahu will himself be targeted by assassins.
Tuesday’s almost simultaneous, reported killing of a senior Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukur, in an Israeli airstrike in south Beirut, will help ensure the Middle East’s downward spiral into destruction continues to accelerate. Once again, the Israel-Hamas war is the driving factor. The attack was in retaliation for an alleged Hezbollah missile strike in the occupied Golan Heights last weekend that killed 12 young people.
There are moments in the Gaza/Israel War of such barbarity and provocation that you almost throw up in panic.
The decision by Israel to assassinate Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh is one such moment.
Assassinating the person you are negotiating a cease fire with suggests the cease fire has stopped.
Netanyahu’s entire political career has been about baiting Palestinian responses and using disproportionate military violence to harvest Israeli anger. He needs to keep this conflict escalating so that he is never held accountable.
Assassinating Haniyeh plunges the region closer to all out war and I think it makes the possibility of Iran successfully testing nuclear weapon far more likely.
Israel has escalated their ethnic cleansing war crime and is dragging the rest of the region into war. They have clearly identified that a weak Biden won’t reign them in and in the flux of Harris vs Trump they can push conflict without American consequence.
We all got a lot closer to something terrible happening thanks to Israel
A guy with a 5 million dollar bounty on his head. I hope the USA pays up!
The world is a better safer place without him.
Will Israel collect the reward?
” The world is a better safer place without him. ”
He has been martyred and there thousands more ready to take his place.
” The world is a better safer place without him. ”
But NOT for the Palestinian people at the mercy of Zionist rapists and murderers and many who are held and tortured by the Israelis for standing against decades of oppression.
” Far-right Israelis have protested the arrest of IDF soldiers for the alleged gang rape and abuse of a Palestinian detainee. Protestors stormed Israel’s Sde Teiman detention facility, where Israeli police had arrested nine soldiers. ”
” he Palestinian detainee was taken to hospital, where “his injuries included a ruptured intestine, severe injury to the anus and lungs, and broken ribs”, according to Israeli outelt Haaretz. ”
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/07/31/israel-rape/
Colonel William R. Higgins was captured by Hezbollah and tortured for months until his body was dumped near a mosque. An autopsy report found that he had been starved and had suffered multiple lethal injuries that could have caused his death. The skin on his face had been partially removed along with his tongue and he had also been castrated.
Haniyeh is in heaven with Jesus for his protection of Palestinians and the other free people of the world from zionist pedophiles. You are heading straight to hell with your zionist masters.
Go’s help those who trespass against us.
We need to support Israel in its efforts to assassinate threats, including actions like bombing Tehran with American assistance. We need to eliminate any potential threats to the holy land!
” We need to support Israel in its efforts ”
” Far-right Israelis have protested the arrest of IDF soldiers for the alleged gang rape and abuse of a Palestinian detainee. Protestors stormed Israel’s Sde Teiman detention facility, where Israeli police had arrested nine soldiers. ”
” The Palestinian detainee was taken to hospital, where “his injuries included a ruptured intestine, severe injury to the anus and lungs, and broken ribs”, according to Israeli outelt Haaretz. ”
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/07/31/israel-rape/
Bad Arse Hebrews
The Mid East will go up in flames if the yanks do not pull the pin on Israel and IDF. Does anyone think that will happen? Not me!
The Druze kids killed by missile strike have been claimed as “Israeli children”!
Welcome to WWIII.
Israel is simply the pit bull of US empire.
The Golan Heights is another occupied land grab by the zionist that belongs to the Syrians. The people killed were Syrians not Israeli citizens and they were accidently shelled by Israeli patriot rockets. The Israelis and its flunky western MSM just fucken lying cunts neva to be believed.
Pfft. Israel dropped a bomb into one apartment that was small enough to only kill Haniyeh and a bodyguard, from aircraft that went through Iran’s air defences and got away clean. That sent a message all by itself to Iran regarding a wider war: if Israel can do that, what else can they do?
Got receipts? You know there many Palestinian leaders to replace “Ismail Haniyeh” & he isn’t the only leader nor the most important of their resistance show how little you know about apartheid Israel who actually struggling and being killed in significant numbers in Gaza and some in Galilee with Hezbollah.
So that just reinforces the belief that all the so called accidents and collateral damage in Gaza are deliberate acts and murder on a grand scale.
The difference between one man who was tracked to an apartment and fighting thousands of Hamas in deep tunnels. And meet the civilians. TBF they just sound like these threads.
Bolllocks. The IDF is not killing women and children in f’ing tunnels. They are killing them in places they told them to run to in the first place.
The zionists never fight the human resistance by choice. They love only to rape and kill the innocent. Hamas fighters do die- but it’s because they put themselves as human shields in between the zionist monsters and their targets, who are primarily children and to a lesser extent non-combatant women and men.
OUR remaining defence force will have to head to gun city and arm them selves and get ready to be shipped out on the plane that will never get them to the war zone .No doubt we will be stationed in Israel with the yanks and used as cannon fodder .
How certain are you that Israel is behind the killing of this guy in Iran? It would require a team of Israeli commandos to do this. Or maybe a long range missile, however they would need to know exactly where and when to strike
A criminal was convicted & sentenced. Justice was served.
You will never have a nation, you baby-raping pedophile.
Sorry? I’m not a Palestinian.
” We need to support Israel in its efforts ”
” Far-right Israelis have protested the arrest of IDF soldiers for the alleged gang rape and abuse of a Palestinian detainee. Protestors stormed Israel’s Sde Teiman detention facility, where Israeli police had arrested nine soldiers. ”
” The Palestinian detainee was taken to hospital, where “his injuries included a ruptured intestine, severe injury to the anus and lungs, and broken ribs”, according to Israeli outelt Haaretz. ”
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/07/31/israel-rape/
How do you know it was Israel responsible? The US had a five million dollar bounty on him. After 7/10 he went on TV and told the Gazans to shed their blood, men women, kids, elderly. Good riddance to a vile terrorist.
How much are the squatters in that shitty entity shitting themselves waiting for the inevitible responses, gaby?
we know you pedophiles are responsible for everything bad in the world
” Netanyahu’s entire political career has been about baiting Palestinian responses and using disproportionate military violence to harvest Israeli anger. He needs to keep this conflict escalating so that he is never held accountable ”
And the Americans and their involvement behind the scenes. Netanyahu knows he can keep pushing his agenda with American support.
The only winner in a full scale conflict in the Middle East is the American arms industry and the imposition of the American version of Democratic principles that have worked so well for the wealthy American elitists.
More capitalist doctrine and subservience will set you free.
Where this goes from here will be determined by the Iranians who have shown incredible restraint and the Americans representative Netanyahu who would have received iron clad support not covered in the MSM in his recent visit to keep retaliating against the Arab – Persian enemy with American support and money.
So far most of the Arab countries have remained silent at Israel’s aggression , torture and annihilation of the Palestinian people.
Its looking like complicity to American foreign policy and the all mighty American dollar that has prevented this conflict from spreading out further so far.
No leader of a terrorist organisation waging war against Israel is safe from hiding from Israel military.
As Andrew said above….Iran didn’t stop the jet, didn’t even know it was there, a surgical precision target hit and then out of Iran air space before they knew it.
Delicious
Which again reinforces the belief that all the dead women and children aren’t accidents.
No leader of a terrorist organisation waging war against Israel is safe from hiding from Israel military.
As Andrew said above….Iran didn’t stop the jet, didn’t even know it was there, a surgical precision target hit and then out of Iran air space before they knew it.
Delicious
Israels criminal Govt and the rabid extremist Zionists who hold power in it have been wanting war and ethnic cleansing because they are proud racists from the ‘Kahanist’ iidaology ,,,, with its supremacist/ubermensch beliefs ,,,, and most of them are temple-mounters who are crazed religious nuts who want to destroy/get rid of ‘the dome of the rock’ https://cdn.britannica.com/93/84693-050-BBB16251/Dome-of-the-Rock-Jerusalem.jpg ,,, So they can resume the cutting of animals throats there,,, Yes really, as animal sacrifice is still a important thing for these violent backward freaks.
Netaenyahu and his blood dripping circus of a Government have shown through their criminal words and criminal deeds that they are DESPERATE for a far larger war ,,,,,, a war that will require their war daddy the Usa to get (more)directly involved in ,,,, to save their criminal Zionist arse’s.
An earlier example of their escalations and provocations towards war was when Israel killed/murdered 3 sons and 4 grandchildren of Ismail Haniyeh ,,, and they did this while Ismail Haniyeh ,the man they have just killed,, was the Hama’s leader involved in ceasefire negotiations ,,, “Israel’s military said it had “eliminated three Hamas military wing operatives in the central Gaza Strip”, adding that they were the sons of Ismail Haniyeh. The statement did not mention the reported deaths of Haniyeh’s grandchildren.” ,,,.
Because nothing shows you’re serious about ceasefire negotiations like killing the sons and grandchildren of the person your sitting down and negotiating with does..
… They (Israel) also murdered his sister and 10 other of his family members,,, when they bombed his house while they knew that he himself was nowhere near it….
All the supporters of the mass child abuse and all the other wicked crimes that Israel purposely commits will probably find Israels recent assinations easier to justify and defend than all the other murders committed by Israel,,, which they also justify……
ie–” Dr. Hammam Alloh, a 36-year-old nephrologist at Shifa Hospital who refused to evacuate when Israel besieged the hospital in October.On October 31, in an interview with Amy Goodman for Democracy Now!, the doctor talked about why he chose to stay: “If I go, who treats my patients? We are not animals. We have the right to receive proper health care. So we can’t just leave.” Eleven days later, Dr. Alloh was killed by an Israeli air strike on his home, along with three of his family members… ”
“Fuck the laws ,,, I support the very worst and most evil of crimes/ criminals” is long-hand for ‘I support Israel.
Read about the very sick and very real crimes that Israel committs and it’s supporters support here ,,, “We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.” ,, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697
Is the ‘Empire of Lies and violence ‘ ( the Usa, the west & Nato ) bad and mad enough to back Israels regional war aims when this would crash the worlds economies …
…Yes they ( and we) are ,,,,, some people ( a tiny segment of Billionaires/corporations) will do very well and make a lot of money from the war and mass suffering…
An interesting article seeking to explain a longtime mentality/strategy of the shitty entity that has occupied the land of Palestine.
https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-isnt-crazy-its-just-mad
“Israel isn’t crazy, it’s just MAD
Since before its inception, Israel has very deliberately, very rationally pursued a ‘MAD strategy’ toward its foes and allies alike, training them to accept its bad behavior at all times.”
Here’s Ismail Haniyeh explaining in October why he wants lots of Gazan women and children to die.
Hamas makes Israel snipers shoot children in their heads or with very precise heart/lung shots justified in what way Xenophon ???
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697 “We started seeing a series of children, preteens mostly, who’d been shot in the head. They’d go on to slowly die, only to be replaced by new victims who’d also been shot in the head, and who would also go on to slowly die. Their families told us one of two stories: the children were playing inside when they were shot by Israeli forces, or they were playing in the street when they were shot by Israeli forces.”
Xenophons support for the most evil crimes by the worst of criminals is not hidden by his dribbling on about Hama’s ,,,,
It’s sounds weird but these supporters of the depraved ( gaby , Xenophon, Nathan,I’m right etc ) are the pathetic side of evil ,,, they tell weak weak lies to cover sick crimes…. criminally bad excuses .
“The moment the United States cuts off military aid to Israel the bombs will stop falling and the troops will withdraw. We must decide, once and for all: are we for or against murdering children, doctors and emergency medical personnel? Are we for or against demolishing an entire society? Are we for or against starvation?”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697
objectives, motivations and their current criminal means ,,, https://youtu.be/bi61CBjgfnM?list=TLPQMDEwODIwMjS2iXaeSV19bw&t=923
The human shield tactic (and strategy) by Hamas of fighting a war only works if it has enabling supporters – like Awakesky, Minto and most every Lefty commentator here. If it was condemned Hamas & co. might have to fight Israel openly. But then they’d lose, so human shields it is.
….So the children targeted and killed by ‘head shots’ from Israeli snipers are according to Xenophon victims of Hama’s ,,, However from the mouths of Zionists and the IDF when referencing their own snipers — ” every shot is fired precisely, “by order of a senior commander, and every bullet has a precise address.”
“This message is reminiscent of the IDF tweet from the first day of protests within the Great March of Return (March 30th), where it claimed that “nothing was carried out uncontrolled; everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed.” That day, 15 Palestinian protesters were killed. The army had immediately removed the tweet, apparently realizing what a damning admission this was. But B’tselem saved the screenshot.”
…. Showing Xenophon using weak lies in a pathetic false excuse for Israel shooting children on purpose….
Our intelligence is not as low as your sick morals are Xenophon…
But we ca clearly see your pathetic evil on display ,,,
““A human shield is only a shield if your enemy values human life and seeks to minimize civilian deaths,” …. ” Israel isn’t being “forced” to kill Palestinian children, it is knowingly choosing to.”
“The “human shields” narrative is just one more instance in which Israel pretends to be the victim while actually being the victimizer. They lied about beheaded babies so that they could get away with murdering babies. They lied about mass rapes so that they could get away with committing rape. They lied about Hamas using civilians as human shields so that they could kill civilians. They lie about being victims so that they can victimize.”
… It’s not just the case that we should not Xenophon seriously ,,, he should also be treated with the contempt that any scumbag who supports the murder, mutilation and starving of Children deserves.
Hamas has nothing to do with Xenophon being a depraved low life ,,, or Israel snipers ( elite marksmen/rifle men) shooting children, women and civilians.
He’s just a sick bad person who would probably shoot a child in the head himself if he could do it for Israel,,, and get away with his crime.
Don’t waste your time pretending you’re arguing with a human. ‘Xenophon’ is just another pedophile sitting in JIDF HQ in ‘Tel Aviv’, lying to goyim he considers beneath his contempt.
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