NoneOfUrBusiness

So that’s the history of the dreaded “October surprise”.

How does Israel’s economy come into play here? This is about Middle Eastern people boycotting a bunch of American franchises and other stuff in (sometimes misguided) solidarity with Gaza.

Oh I see. That makes sense, and gives me some hope for the future.

Most (including US) current generation weapons systems have been untested.

Hasn’t a lot of it been tested in Ukraine and Gaza? That’s part of why Israel is useful for the West; they get to test their shiny new toys.

In other words, using qualifiers like inferior or superior for literally untested weapons(and yes, weapons are untested until used against an enemy) Is purely a faith/propaganda thing.

This makes sense in a conflict between equals, but for example Hezbollah literally doesn’t have an air force. Which makes sense because they’re a paramilitary organization, but like yeah it’s not really a question who’s outgunning who here. Hezbollah, and Russian aligned countries in general, primarily use old Soviet models which were at best on equal footing with contemporary Western models. Meanwhile the IDF is one of the most modern armies in the world, only being manned by morons.

If you need more proof that Hezbollah is outgunned here, then look at the state of Southern Lebanon compared to Northern Israel.

It must be remembered that Ukraine is using Western arms so while they’re losing in numbers their equipment is of superior quality. Hezbollah doesn’t have that advantage, and in fact it’s the opposite since they rely on inferior Russian and Iranian gear.

You didn’t contradict anything they said, so…

They never had the moral high ground.

However Iran is as big a threat to Israel as the average US citizen.

How so?

That explains why their tertiary education union passed a resolution stating its members have a right to express anti-Zionist ideology.

Genocide, presumably.

“She was sort of saying, with certain allies, we can’t play bad cop,” an aid official who attended the 29 August meeting said, adding that Grande made it clear Israel is part of a “tight circle of very few allies” that Washington “will not oppose, nor will it hold anything back that they want.”

It says “tight circle of very few allies” but I’m pretty sure even Britain wouldn’t get away with destroying the US’s international reputation and drawing it in a pointless conflict like Israel is currently doing.

He did? He’s been one of the more vocal European leaders about Palestine so I wonder where the change of heart came from.

They tripped on bullets that were peacefully commuting to work at 4000 km/h

I’m not sure what you’re mad about. Fuck Macron but this is real progress.

Rabin, presumably.

Uh… Both of them are option 2, though.

It’d be genius, if anything. Soon enough that people will know it and vote for her (the majority of Democrats support conditioning Israeli aid), too late for AIPAC’d propaganda machine to push the election towards Trump.

I see. Well, I guess they’ll have to expand the evacuation area after this.

At first I thought the comparison was sacrificing relevancy for Japan-centricity but now that I think about it what Israel is doing is exactly that: (genocidal levels of) terror bombing.

That is, in fact, not true. The civilians in an Apartheid system are definitely civilians.