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submitted 7 months ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

An Israeli missile has hit Iran, two US officials have told the BBC's US partner CBS News.

Iranian state media is reporting that flights have been suspended over several cities, according to Associated Press.

Iran has been on high alert after Israel said it would respond to an Iranian attack against it on Saturday night

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[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 236 points 7 months ago

It would have been nice if this world wasn't run by fucking children.

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 82 points 7 months ago

literally every anarchist has been saying this for centuries.

whatever your politics, welcome to team 'at least some of the people in the room should be adults, we have nukes floating around ffs'

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[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Epstein already proved that and allegedly a Mossad agent. How much blackmail does Bibi have on Biden?

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 139 points 7 months ago

Fuck Netanyahu.

If he starts WW3 he can get fucked... though we should try and grant asylum to all current residents of Palestine and Isreal.

[-] avater@lemmy.world 61 points 7 months ago

If he starts WW3 he can get fucked… though we should try and grant asylum to all current residents of Palestine and Isreal.

You can rest well that russian cunt Putin has already warmed up the engine for WW3

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[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He is a bloodthirsty idiot of the worst kind

[-] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 118 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh FFS. This had better be an extremely limited response to Iran's response to Israel's bombing of an embassy. Here's hoping it's just the same type of symbolic attack that Iran made last weekend - all show and no intent. Just Israel refusing to let anyone else have the last word.

Anything more serious and things are about to become very messy and even more expensive. Although it would explain why Israel is suddenly arranging to get dozens of jets from the US in the last month or so. Lord knows they don't seem necessary if the only goal is to keep blowing up Palestinians.

[-] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

Although it would explain why Israel is suddenly arranging to get dozens of jets from the US in the last month or so.

Forgive what feels like a nitpick, but we should take a moment for wider historical scorn. WaPo at the end of March:

Last week, the State Department authorized the transfer of 25 F-35A fighter jets and engines worth roughly $2.5 billion, U.S. officials said. The case was approved by Congress in 2008, so the department was not required to provide a new notification to lawmakers.

Biden owns the fuckup, but it comes after all the shit Israel put the administrations of Dubya, Obama, and Individual 1 through, and after all the atrocities upon the Great March of Return and the other surges of conflict. The planes could fill another allies’ order, the MIC could get their warbucks, and Joey could have kicked the can down the road, but here we are.

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 35 points 7 months ago

why the fuck do they have f-35s?

the Americans aren't even giving peripheral NATO countries f-35's, are they?

why the fuck are they getting f-35's?

even RPing as an american imperialist, I cannot think of a reason other than 'for the evulz'.

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[-] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's a fair point, no need to apologize for keeping me accurate. I had read and forgotten that detail honestly, because in my head I lump the two deals together - the other one being the new $18 billion contract for F-15s that Biden's administration is seeking approval for currently. I think I mentally shorthand it to "arrangements for new jets going to Israel" but there is definitely detail involved as you point out.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 24 points 7 months ago

Measured retaliation leads to measured retaliation leads to measured retaliation...

It's fucking hard but Isreal suffered minimally from Iran's bullshit aggression - Netanyahu could "be the bigger man" without losing any face.

Real leaders - real manly men - real strong people of any stripe - those are the people who have the strength to forgive and compromise.

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[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Although it would explain why Israel is suddenly arranging to get dozens of jets from the US in the last month or so

That's just a quid pro quo kickback between the corporatocracy.

"We'll channel more tax payer money through your military industrial complex if you let us continue with our nationalist ethnostate genocide... We may even start another gulf war and channel trillion$ more"

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[-] Alto@kbin.social 97 points 7 months ago
[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 22 points 7 months ago

we? yes.

biden, evangelicals, and "Israelis"? no. no they physically must do the worst most destructive shit.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 57 points 7 months ago

The US was aware of the Israeli attack plans, according to CNN. If the US is shooting down Iranian missiles, why don't they shoot down Israeli missiles as well? Nothing good will happen from any sort of missile exchange in that region.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 46 points 7 months ago

~~Israeli~~ missiles

*American missiles

Lol

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[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago

So, are they going back to opposing the invasion of Rafah, then?

You know, seeing as how Israel just got concessions for promising not to do a thing, then immediately went and did the thing regardless.

Or does Biden just have a humilation fetish? Which fine, no kink-shaming here but maybe keep it in the bedroom.

I have to admit, the phrase 'lifestyle democrat' has a nice ring to it...

[-] Damage@feddit.it 49 points 7 months ago

I wish the EU would grow a backbone and tell the US to stop stoking fires in our backyard

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 7 months ago

Germany and Italy are also big on giving aid to Israel so Idk if the EU is going to be able to help either.

[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Germany pretty much makes it illegal to even say anything negative about Israel

[-] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago

It is not illegal. You will only get publicly humiliated, have your house raided on bullshit reasons and if you get any government funding for anything you did, you can say bye bye to that. Especially if you are jewish and dissenting to the zionist agenda. Jews are disproportionaly targeted by these measures. Because nothing protects Jews form antisemitism, like targeting Jews that "stepped out of line" in the eyes of the pro zionist government.

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[-] Strawberry 49 points 7 months ago

wild how Iran launched missiles at Israel and then was struck by Israeli missiles... the Israeli missiles weren't launched, though. They just sprang into existence above Iran

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[-] tortillaPeanuts@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

Irresponsible decision from Israel, the initial exchange seemed justified with no reason to escalate things.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 38 points 7 months ago

It wasn't justified by israel the first time either. Anyone with iq above room temperature knows Israel is doing all of this for a reason .

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[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
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[-] cupcakezealot 37 points 7 months ago

don't worry i'm sure the us and uk will come out as forcefully against this as they did against iran right?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Listen, Israel has a right to exist, and part of Israeli's existence is firing missiles at its neighbors, so maybe back off and stop being anti-Semitic about this why dontcha?

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[-] USSEthernet@startrek.website 26 points 7 months ago

Did Fallout release at the perfect time?

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[-] Cipher22@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Wait.

So, in response to the 300 weapon systems that US/Israel roughly blocked all of. (1 casualty from defensive shrapnel)

In turn Israel launched 1 missile, and it hit?

Ooof.

[-] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

that US/Israel roughly blocked

Israel, the US, the UK, Jordan, and Egypt. Israel didn't do it on their own.

[-] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Based on US and EU reports, Israel intercepted very few of them. The US alone claimed more than half, and the EU+Jordan was another roughly 25%

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[-] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'd be careful about considering Israel's defense as a complete success, or at least an easy one. According to Israeli sources cited in this article, achieving that result cost Israel as much as $1-1.3 billion USD, and I can't find out if that includes the price of interception by other countries - a lot of the heavy lifting was done by the USA after all. Given that they say that's the cost for Israel specifically, I don't think it does but I can't find sources. Regardless, it's a big bill for an attack that everyone knew was coming days in advance and gives a sense of the economics involved in an open war several times more intense.

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[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago
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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

This is important, pinning it for now.

Let's keep the discussion here and not post it 14 more times.

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[-] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The US just gave approval for more Genocide, another assault on millions of starving refugees that are mostly children, only for Israel to break their one concession in mere hours... Luckily no casualties are reported, hopefully this doesn't escalate.

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