“I told Prime Minister Netanyahu that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks — sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel,” Biden said.
What does the headline mean with “counterattack”? Iran wouldn’t have attacked if Israel didn’t bomb their consulate in Syria. Why is Israel painted as the victim here?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
It should be a crime to still be using that phrase, but in this case it doesn’t even make sense. What “stupid prizes” did Israel win? The recent strike in Syria killed a high ranking IRGC general and Iran’s retaliatory efforts were mostly intercepted, with the only Israeli casualty as of now is an injured 10 year old girl.
What “stupid prizes” did Israel win?
All their neighbors trying to kill them?
Biden and his senior advisers are highly concerned an Israeli response to Iran’s attack on Israel would lead to a regional war with catastrophic consequences, U.S. officials said.
But thats what Israel wants. Thats why they attacked Iran in the first place.
Iran attacked first, not Israel. The Syrian strike was not the first attack.
Please elaborate. Is Hamas now Iran? Are the WCK workers now Iran?
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Are you fucking stupid? Shutting down commerce in the USA might actually do something to make a statement in the USA. Fuck Israel and fuck what they notice. We’re trying to disrupt business markets at home.
Let’s be realistic here, we’ll be lucky if any kind of demonstration, especially for an issue not happening at home, lasts an afternoon. Hell, we’ve had some pretty big stuff happen here that barely kinda sorta had any impact by demonstrations (after George Floyd’s murder comes to mind)
So, US won’t help Israel unless Israel could make use of it.
Thanks Biden! You’re so much better than trump and not just a puppet to placate the masses.
Would you rather have had him tell Israel the U.S. would assist in an attack on Iran?
Because I guarantee you that Trump would have and I doubt that’s actually what you want.
They have to wait for one of their talking heads to tell them what they want.
I just love the idea of someone both being angry at Biden for not attacking Iran while also criticizing Trump, who would have been asking the joint chiefs when he can launch the first nuke by now.
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This is why Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal with Iran in his own words:
We must never allow a regime that chants “Death to America” or “Death to Israel” to obtain a nuclear weapon. That’s all we can say. (Applause.)
And it’s for this reason that I withdrew the United States from that disastrous Iran nuclear deal and implemented those sanctions, which are so biting and so tough.
And if you think Trump is so pro-Iran and anti-Israel, you haven’t been paying much attention to his actual words.
Literally last night:
“ISRAEL IS UNDER ATTACK! This should never have been allowed to happen – This would NEVER have happened if I were President!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
“AMERICA SUPPORTS ISRAEL!”
Trump wanted to nuke a hurricane, so nuking Iran wouldn’t have even been a question to him.
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So… Trump pulling out of the accord got Iran back on course to developing a nuke, which made them more powerful, which is getting Putin what he wants, which means Trump is not doing what Putin wants?
Interesting reasoning.
I’m not saying he wouldn’t be pro-Israel, but considering how much his words say one thing on the campaign trail, and his actions are generally just whatever he thinks will benefit him the most in the moment, it wouldn’t surprise me if Iran could sway him into looking the other way.
That’s another issue. That Trump is incredibly easy to manipulate is a whole other ballgame. This guy seems to think that Trump is some sort of pacifist.
Yeah, actually.
At least then he’d be being honest.
I still wouldn’t vote for him, but it would be preferable to lies.
So… he’s lying about not attacking Iran? How do you know this?
I wasn’t born yesterday.
Do you think the US won’t attack Iran if it legitimately threatened Israel?
I can’t predict the future like you, sorry. But I’d love to borrow your crystal ball and buy some lottery tickets if you wouldn’t mind.
That’s okay.
You were just born yesterday :)
You do know this statement was about what is happening right now and not about what might happen if Iran carried out some hypothetical future attack, right?
Would you rather have had him tell Israel the U.S. would assist in an attack on Iran?
I’d rather have confidence that he won’t assist anyway.
There’s no reason expect escalation at this time. Netanyahu got the IRGC commander and generals he wanted in the reckless embassy attack. Iran responded with last night’s attack on Israel and deemed the response conclusive.
