@KraftTea

#WarInTheMiddleEast
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There are already two related wars going on in the region:

#WarInGaza
#WarInYemen

The last missile attack on #Israel by #Iran a couple of weeks ago has shown:
Israel's Western allies and Sunni opponents of Iran can be dragged into the #WarInPalestine any time.

The #Houthis have to be seen as a warring party against Israel as well.

The #Gaza strip has been (IMO in breach of international law) been obliterated by the #IDF. The degree...

@Free_Press

@GreenFire
#WarInPalestine
"John Spencer, professor of Urban War Studies at West Point who says, “Israel has done more to prevent civilian casualties in war than any military in history.""

This seems a outlier view to me.
I have not seen a similar opinion anywhere in the world.
The #IDF is not fighting a regular war but trying to seize and eliminate a terrorist group that hides between millions of innocent civilians. In so doing, the #Gaza strip has become all but uninhabitable...

@claralistensprechen3rd @GreenFire

#WarInPalestine #History
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...I took a trip in a virtual time machine in a discussion here. It leads to nowhere.
Historically speaking, #Palestine belongs to no-one and everyone b/c "everyone" has been their at some point in time:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111969398501009885

(Note:
Do look at the linked timeline, the number of empires involved over the course of several thousand years is truly staggering).

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@claralistensprechen3rd @GreenFire

#WarInPalestine #History
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...that question should be directed to a@[email protected]'s Defence Editor, #ShashankJoshi, @shashj). 1)
My gut feeling is that, despite it being propaganda, Prof. #MuhammadMirandi's (see post above) assessment of the weaponry employed in the recent mass attack of #Iran contains more than a grain of truth.

In any event, not only #Turkey could have a claim to #Palestine...

1) *https://www.rusi.org/people/joshi

@claralistensprechen3rd

#WarInPalestine #History
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I agree with you, Clara, regarding the predilections of #Erdogan. (Interesting, BTW, that you should use the official #Türkiye;))
#Iran could not conquer #Israel.

However, as we can see by its huge production of drones for the #Kremlin, it can cause havoc regarding the region's #infrastructure.
Also, I have read a bit about the technologies it employs (actually...

@GreenFire
https://mastodon.scot/@Lassielmr

@GreenFire

#WarInPalestine
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...liberties, the final collapse and partitioning of the Russian Federation, and statehood and a safe heaven for Jews for Israel, as well as a Superpower guarantor of its security . I'd say with regard to discrimination and persecution Jews have already been set back globally since October, 2023.
Probably the most lasting achievement of #Netanyahu.

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@GreenFire

#WarInPalestine
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...also the perpetrators of #WarCrimes in the #Netanyahu Regime and the #IDF.

There cannot be double legal and moral standards, ..."with liberty and Justice for all.”

As a sidenote:

History will judge whether the current presiden of Russia or Israel or the former president of the US, #TFG, will have caused the most lasting damage to their respective countries in the long run.

What is at stake for the USA is nothing less than Democracy and individual...

@GreenFire

#WarInPalestine
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Correct.
But are they ever?
I don't think so.

The only thing we can do is to act based on the high moral principles that were the basis for many Western democracies and the founding principles of the League of Nations and the United Nations from NOW on.

Nations or terrorists organizations that defy these principles must me brought to heel, however.

This applies to #Russia, the terrorist #Houthis in #Yemen, the remaining #Hamas killers, and...

@GreenFire

#WarInPalestine
A contrarian perspective
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...the #MiddleEast is but one gigantic powder keg. And several fuses have been lit...

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