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by Richard Eldred
3 October 2024 12:44 AM

  • “We’re on the brink of World War Three – and only one country can stop it” – Iran now presents an intolerable threat to global stability, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph. We must suppor the only country that stands between us and armageddon: Israel.
  • “Israel’s options for retaliatory strikes against Iran” – Benjamin Netanyahu is weighing up his next move – from targeting oil assets and missile programmes to assassinating Iran’s leaders, writes Jotam Confino in the Telegraph.
  • “U.K. Armed Forces ‘not up to defending Israel from missile attacks’” – Defence experts warn that Britain’s Armed Forces lack the necessary firepower to shield Israel from Iranian ballistic missile assaults, reports the Telegraph.
  • “‘Hezbollah are acting rationally’: The BBC’s Israel problem laid bare” – What exactly is Hezbollah? The BBC does not seem to know it’s a terrorist organisation, says George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
  • “Keir Starmer’s top donor Lord Alli under investigation” – Keir Starmer’s top donor Lord Waheed Alli is being probed by a House of Lords watchdog over “alleged non-registration of interests”, reports the Mail.
  • “Labour received gifts worth £1 million from gambling sector” – Keir Starmer and three members of his Cabinet have received more than £1 million from casino bosses, on top of tens of thousands in freebies from bookies, says the National.
  • “Starmer ‘exempt’ from paying £48,000 tax on freebies” – According to accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg, HMRC “appears to exempt” politicians from paying tax on gifts from donors and political allies despite requiring taxpayers in other sectors to do so, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Angela Rayner’s VIP Ibiza trip to a DJ’s booth was an £836 freebie” – Angela Rayner racked up £836 in freebies during a wild night at Ibiza’s Hi nightclub, including a VIP trip to the DJ booth, says the Mail.
  • “Tube drivers threaten to strike, saying £70,000 a year is not enough” – Tube drivers have voted to go on strike after rejecting a pay rise that would take their salaries to £70,000 for the first time, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Civil servants threaten to strike over back-to-office push” – Hundreds of workers at the Office for National Statistics have backed an all-out strike to protest against being ordered back to the workplace two days a week, says the Telegraph.
  • “The full, alarming truth about mass migration is finally being exposed” – Robert Jenrick is right – the risks of mass migration have become so great they should be impossible to ignore, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
  • “The demise of the Tory party has been greatly exaggerated” – It is too soon to write off the democratic world’s most successful party, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
  • “Net Zero: only fanatics fail to see the hopelessness of the ruinous policy” – Setting arbitrary, unrealistic green targets only serves to threaten our national and economic security, no matter how morally superior it makes our policy-makers feel, says Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
  • “Ed Miliband reveals plan to prevent Net Zero blackouts” – Giant flywheels are to be installed around the U.K. to minimise the risk of blackouts as the power system goes carbon-free, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Net Zero is becoming synonymous with economic suicide” – There is a reason why every developing country’s plan for industrialisation involves a steel plant. It is critical to everything else, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
  • “Electric Fiat 500 production freeze extended over ‘struggling’ EV sales” – No one is buying the new Fiat 500, writes Brian Silvestro in Motor1.com.
  • “Fraser Nelson will be a hard act to follow – he made the Spectator the success it is today” – From trans ideology to Covid lockdowns, the Spectator has been fearless in challenging lazy dogma, says James Kirkup in the Telegraph.
  • “Free speech row at Durham University after debating society blocked from campus events” – Durham University is embroiled in a free speech row after its debating society was banned from the freshers’ fair over unresolved racism allegations, reports the Telegraph.
  • “McEntee confirms Government will seek to pass hate speech bill after General Election” – Ireland’s Justice Minister confirms to Gript’s Ben Scallan that the Government will seek to pass hate speech legislation during the next government term.
  • “In praise of Elon Musk” – Elon Musk deserves respect for his defence of online free speech, says Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
  • “Man, 34, contacted GP six times during lockdown then died of cancer” – An inquest revealed a man died of cancer just three days after seeing a doctor, with an earlier diagnosis possible if it hadn’t been for Covid, reports the Mail.
  • “The Hallett Inquiry – evidence given on September 26th, 2024” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson provide an overview of Professor Whitty’s responsibilities as England’s Chief Medical Officer.
  • “These four heartbreaking words show why we must never do lockdown again” – We cannot say Covid is over when we have condemned a whole generation of innocent children to a lifetime of pain, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
  • “Moderna under fire after children offered cash to test Covid vaccine” – Regulators have blasted Moderna after the pharmaceutical company was found to be offering children money to test the Covid vaccine, reports GB News.
  • “30 lawmakers sponsor bill to end liability protection for vaccine makers” – A new bill in the U.S. House aims to strip vaccine makers of the liability protections granted by the 1986 Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, according to Children’s Health Defence.
  • “Daniel Andrews statue is a painful insult to Victorians who suffered under his bans, curfews and failed hotel quarantine” – The plan to erect a Daniel Andrews statue in Melbourne will be a permanent reminder of the destruction he wrought with his Covid-era policies, writes Caleb Bond for Sky News Australia.
  • “Tim Walz admits he ‘misspoke’ about Tiananmen Square protests” – Gov. Tim Walz tried to explain during the Vice Presidential debate why he falsely claimed he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in June 1989, reports the Mail. It did not go well.
  • “Vance is the future of MAGA” – J.D. Vance has emerged as a potential leader for the future. The question that lingers is, will he be able to carry the torch and lead the way? wonders Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
  • “School assistant challenges dismissal after criticising LGBT teaching” – A school assistant who says she was fired for her Christian beliefs has begun a court challenge over her dismissal after criticising plans to teach primary school pupils about LGBT+ relationships, reports the Mail. 
  • “The nurses fighting the NHS for women-only spaces” – In an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, four NHS whistleblowers reveal to Lucy Denyer why they’re suing their hospital for allowing a man to use the women’s changing room.
  • “London’s failed night czar resigns” – At long last, and not a day too soon, it transpires that London’s ‘night czar’ is standing down, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
  • “‘The BBC threw Giovanni Pernice under the bus to placate Amanda Abbington – I hope he sues’” – The BBC’s handling of Amanda Abbington’s allegations against Giovanni Pernice has not only tarnished his reputation but also put Strictly on shaky ground, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
  • “We have a name. As do the Mail and the Telegraph. We have a birth certificate” – Paul Staines talks to Dan Wootton about the Keir Starmer scandal all Westminster is talking about, but which no newspaper has (yet) published.

BREAKING: MAJOR DEVELOPMENT ON KEIR STARMER'S "BIG SECRET" TERRIFYING NUMBER 10
Guido Fawkes boss Paul Staines tells Outspoken the story rocking Westminster is about shape of PM's family.
He reveals: “We have a name. As do the Mail and the Telegraph. We have a birth certificate." pic.twitter.com/8gbwI8hgqM

— Dan Wootton (@danwootton) October 2, 2024

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

This is a response to the Green Party minister in Germany, who recently had a change of heart regarding migrants because his daughter was getting sexually harassed, from a father whose teenage daughter and her boyfriend both got stabbed to death on a train by a Palestinian failed asylum seeker with multiple convictions who the authorities didn’t deport;

”Dear Mr. Özdemir,

Every person is the product of their environment. The experiences of the years teach us to question our perspectives through events.
It looks as if you, Mr. Özdemir, Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, have just had this experience. In a guest article for FAZ, you suddenly call for a vigorous change in migration policy. Apparently there is something to the saying “With age comes wisdom!”
Not long ago, such demands would have been considered right-wing radical in your eyes and therefore out of the question. But as soon as it happens to you, after your daughter has been molested, your opinion turns a full 180 degrees. Welcome to the real world of normal citizens, Mr. Minister.

What gives me the right to write you such lines?
My name is Michael Kyrath. I am the father of 17-year-old Ann-Marie, who was murdered in Brokstedt on January 25, 2023. In addition to my daughter, her 19-year-old boyfriend Danny also died that day after a rejected, repeatedly convicted, “stateless” Palestinian stabbed them both 38 times on a regional train.

In contrast to your daughter, dear Mr. Özdemir, our daughter will no longer be coming home. None of your party friends put themselves on the line regarding our case in the way that you are now doing for your daughter. 
On the contrary! We were told that we should be careful that the murder of our daughter is not abused by right-wing radicals! We received a message from one of your coalition partners saying that he was sorry that “these people” had lost their lives.
These “people” were our children, Ann-Marie and Danny! Teenagers aged 17 and 19, on their way home from school. Two young people who still had their whole lives ahead of them. 
Can you imagine what such an act does to those left behind? To us as parents? To grandparents, schoolmates, teachers, friends, neighbors?
We will never celebrate our children’s graduation! We will never congratulate them on completing their vocational training or university studies! We will not attend their weddings, and we will never welcome grandchildren of our own. We will never be able to hug our children again and tell them that we love them!

Over 300 parents have contacted me who have lost their children in the last five years.
What unites us all are five key points:

1. Always the same perpetrator profile
2. Always the same tool
3. Always the same motives
4. Always the same sequence of events and
5. Always the same phrases from the responsible politicians after such an act!

After the murders of our children, we were told that these were “regrettable isolated cases” and that one could never guarantee 100 percent safety. And that one should not generalize and thereby play into the hands of right-wing radicals. And that one would try to take tough action against such perpetrators. Nothing more has happened in recent years.

“Only” around 300 parents had the courage to contact me and tell me about this dark chapter of their lives. How high is the number of those who did not have the courage?
We were all just “isolated cases,” insignificant, inconvenient, unpleasant. 
Over 300 children murdered and no outcry from the politicians responsible, not even from you, Mr Özdemir! And now you’re speaking out. Now, it suddenly affects you personally because it’s about your daughter. If you had realized this earlier and done something, many of our children would still be alive.
May you never have to experience such a thing!”

https://rmx.news/article/unlike-your-daughter-dear-mr-ozdemir-our-daughter-will-not-come-home-anymore/

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
1 year ago

“Net Zero: only fanatics fail to see the hopelessness of the ruinous policy”

Sadly this is not correct, as far as I can see the much of the general public are meekly accepting the net-zero scam and are content to let the net-zero fanatics run things into the ground. Slowly, very slowly, some people are realising where all this is heading and the situation with Electric Cars is leading the way on this. I think the budget at the end of the month may well be another wake up call, if the Government re-imposes the 2030 ban on petrol/diesel (ICE) car sales and if it introduces taxation measures aimed at forcing us to give up ICE cars and go electric then it will be clear where all this is heading.

The news item on the Fiat 500;
“Electric Fiat 500 production freeze extended over ‘struggling’ EV sales” 
Shows that European car makers will struggle with EVs, especially as the Chinese BYD Seagull is due to come to the UK soon, this will a cheap low range EV but if Gov policy goes the way I expect, people who need transport will be forced to buy it in order to keep mobile. And so we will pass our once famous motor industry to the Chinese, a few of us will have low range BYD Seagulls, the rest of us will be on the bus, where from the top deck we will be able to look across a UK filled with Windmills, Flywheels, solar panels and junkyards full of scrapped EVs which nobody can repair or re-cycle. It will be like a latter day version of the ‘Dark Satanic Mills’. As Leonard Cohen once wrote;
”I’ve seen the future, brother
It is murder”

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

I agree with most of what you’ve said but don’t think the Chinese ev revolution on these shores will be as overwhelming as you might think
Chinese evs are poor quality and this will be apparent very quickly to anyone daft enough to buy one, little to no after sales service, hardly any parts available, poor reliability and of course higher than average fire risks (8 ev fires per day in China alone!)
I really don’t think they will swamp the market, very few private buyers actually want an ev anyway, no matter what badge is on them

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

The Chinese EV revolution doesn’t exist in China.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

U.K. Armed Forces ‘not up to defending Israel from missile attacks‘

Britain cannot even defend itself or its borders. That is where self serving and delusional nonsense regarding the fantasy ‘peace dividend’ has brought us.

Where, now, is the British Army so laboriously and effectively constructed by the military genius of Alanbrooke and Montgomery?

‘Aucune!’

What does a rational government do when the security of the nation is directly threatened?

‘”If this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, and European countries in the war in Ukraine. This is their direct participation. And this, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict. This will mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European countries are fighting Russia,”

Putin 11 09 24

This is what a rational government does:

‘Finance Minister Andrzej Domański said that the defence spending proposal would constitute 4.7% of gross domestic product, compared to 4.2% this year…..’

https://www.euronews.com/2024/08/29/polish-prime-minister-donald-tusk-announces-record-defence-spending-in-2025-budget

This is what a hopeless government does:

‘On a visit to Poland, the Prime Minister launches plan to steadily increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the decade – reaching £87 billion a year in 2030.’

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-turning-point-in-european-security-as-uk-set-to-increase-defence-spending-to-25-by-2030

This is why it is important:

‘As a bare minimum, it is the role of the Atlantic army to replace the strategic nuclear deterrent as the instrument with which the attack option is foreclosed to (Russia). But that is a bare minimum. In a modern strategy the Atlantic army must provide for the West a sense of security to a degree that will encourage it to act and react in respect to global events with confidence. That forecloses to (Russia) the options of intimidation, blackmail, and political leverage.’

‘LAND FORCES IN MODERN STRATEGY’
LIEUTENANT GENERAL DE WITT C. SMITH, JR. US ARMY

And Russia now uses that intimidation, blackmail and political leverage to great effect against the pusillanimous and vacillating, incompetent governments of Western Europe.

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

By the time this Government has decimated UK Industry and covered our green and pleasant land with Net-Zero junk, will there be anything left to protect? why would anybody bother to invade an immiserated, collapsed net-zero UK? Putin does not need Hypersonic missiles to decimate the UK, this Government seems hell-bent on doing the job for him with no fighting needed.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

This is not about ‘invasion’.

Modern defence strategy is about preserving peace, freedom of action within the international arena in support of the British national interest, most particularly the international trade upon which what is left of our prosperity, the bulk of the population’s still excellent standard of living in relative terms, relies.

‘Trade is the sum of exports and imports of goods and services measured as a share of gross domestic product.

U.K. trade to gdp ratio for 2022 was 69.52%, a 10.17% increase from 2021.’

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/trade-gdp-ratio#google_vignette

We have just seen, 2020/21, what happens to Britain once international supply routes are disrupted for any length of time.

‘Modern strategy, it seems to me, deals with the use of military forces in peace as well as in war, and also in all those ambiguous conditions in between.

It deals with the use of military forces to prevent conflict, to control conflict if prevention fails, and to terminate conflict if it cannot be controlled.

This “what”-preventing conflict from reaching an absolute form-is of vital concern.

It led to the high interest in limited war theory; it led to what many quite rationally believe to be the decline in the traditional utility of military force as an instrument of power. Finally, it has demanded critical reappraisal not only of the “what” but of the “how” and the “with what.”

The necessity of preventing and controlling conflict has made the “how” and “with what,” formerly and legitimately the concern of the soldier, of equal and legitimate concern to the civilian policymaker as well. It has complicated to a great degree civilian/military relationships that were never entirely clear. It is in the context of the objective of preventing and controlling war that the subject of land forces must be addressed.

An Atlantic community paralyzed by its military inferiority in Europe could only wring its hands as (Russian) power and influence moved unimpeded into the so-called Third World, portions of which provide the materials upon which the industrial, economic, and social health of the industrial West depend.

In essence, we would have a situation in which the West, in tactical terms, is “pinned down” in Europe, while growing (Russian) naval power or (Russian) surrogates slowly but not imperceptibly isolate its Atlantic adversaries.

So even if one believes that an attack on Western Europe is not a very likely scenario, he still cannot view the growing strength of the (Russian) Army in Eastern Europe without a certain uneasiness.

For that Army not only serves the Soviets’ legitimate security interests, but it also exercises an influence on the Atlantic Community that could be in the long run as fatal as naked aggression.’

LAND FORCES IN MODERN STRATEGY
LIEUTENANT GENERAL DE WITT C. SMITH, JR. US ARMY

‘….the Russian Armed Forces would count nearly 2.4 million personnel. Of them, over 60 percent had to be on active duty. The size of the Russian Army was increased three times after the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022.’

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1334454/russian-armed-forces-personnel/

Russia is making heavy weather of its invasion of Ukraine but it is making progress and it will not stop until it is established as a European superstate of 220 million sitting on the EU border.

Once there, its field army of one million plus will indeed exercise ‘the options of intimidation, blackmail, and political leverage’…..unless we get our act together and reconstitute Europe’s conventional deterrent to foreclose those options and put a stop to the ‘erosion of political will, strategic flexibility, and freedom of action’ that we currently see in Western Europe.

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CGW
CGW
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

I am all for a strong, national defence, but diplomacy and the creation of good business relationships must take priority over military threats or the application of sanctions.

So, if we are dependent on materials only available in the ‘Third World’ then we should better promote good relationships with those countries and avoid aggressive posturing which would be guaranteed to lead to refusal to do business with us.

And we are forcing the Russians to increase the size of their army to address, for example, the new threats posed by the ever expanding NATO, in particular Finland with its direct border to Russia. We are creating the imbalance, we should restrain ourselves and stop imposing our supposed superiority on the rest of the world.

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CGW
CGW
1 year ago

Amazing choices for the first newspaper headlines above. Firstly:

“We’re on the brink of World War Three – and only one country can stop it” – Iran now presents an intolerable threat to global stability, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph. We must support the only country that stands between us and armageddon: Israel.

What has Iran done? Why on earth should Iran be a threat to global security and not the one country that is regularly stirring up a hornet’s nest in that region – Israel? It is Israel that assassinates political or military leaders at will, always publicly, always at the cost of numerous innocent civilians, even if the target is in a neutral country’s embassy, even if the target is a guest at a presidential inauguration, Israel does not give a damn about anyone or anything.

And the hornet’s nest are the populations of surrounding countries that are disgusted with the on-going genocidal slaughter in Gaza and the disgraceful treatment of the remaining Palestinians in the West Bank. And they are also disgusted with their own leaders (some of whom are dependent on the West) for not taking any action to stop these crimes.

After months of restraint and (stupidly) expecting some sort of compensation from the western world for doing so, Iran has retaliated (as any other country would) to the latter assassination.

Israel reportedly – stunning, if true – dropped eighty-six 2,000lb bombs to assassinate the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, a week ago, taking down six high-rise residential buildings at the same time. Now how many innocent men, women and children were killed there? Insane, and yet we “must support the only country that stands between us and armageddon: Israel”? How about condemning Israel for its unbelievable aggressions – the only country in the area with nuclear arms?

Then we have:

“Israel’s options for retaliatory strikes against Iran” – Benjamin Netanyahu is weighing up his next move – from targeting oil assets and missile programmes to assassinating Iran’s leaders, writes Jotam Confino in the Telegraph.

What is all this warmongering? Why should we be interested in how Israel can now really stir things up in the Middle East?

And:

“U.K. Armed Forces ‘not up to defending Israel from missile attacks’” – Defence experts warn that Britain’s Armed Forces lack the necessary firepower to shield Israel from Iranian ballistic missile assaults, reports the Telegraph.

Why should we be obliged to defend Israel, when it is obviously happy to blast away in all directions without restraint? Maybe we should diplomatically suggest Israel could attempt to create friends in the area rather than surround itself with enemies? 

I consider myself and UK to be under no obligation to Israel whatsoever. Israel is one of so many countries quite a distance away, whereby those other countries are content to develop and maintain peaceful relationships with their neighbours.

We have two areas threatening nuclear oblivion: Israel, trying to drag USA into a war against Iran (which has friendly relationships with Russia and China) and Ukraine, also trying to drag USA/NATO into a war against Russia. We definitely need to cool down all these belligerents or else it is goodbye and good night for the whole world.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  CGW

I agree that Iran by itself isn’t going to drag us all into WWIII.

BUT, why is Iran dropping bombs on Israel? They say in retaliation, but in retaliation for what?

Gaza isn’t Iran. Lebanon isn’t Iran. Hezbollah isn’t Iran. Does Iran have any formal security treaties with any of these countries or entities that oblige it to respond? I’m not aware of any.

So, what the hell is Iran doing dropping bombs on Israel?

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

I’m personally wondering which particular political or military leaders Iran targeted with their missiles in retaliation. It’s almost as if they were targeting population centres indiscriminately, but surely an Islamic country wouldn’t do that, unlike “blood-crazed genocidal Israel.”

I think the Hezbollah and Hamas rockets must have just been for show all these years, because they wouldn’t be targeting civilians unless they just hated Israelis for being Israelis.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Yes it was definitely all Israel’s fault. They certainly asked for this;

https://x.com/K0sher_C0ckney/status/1841205142462337093

I think they asked for this as well. One of the 8 victims was a mother shielding her baby who was strapped to her and fortunately was unharmed, by pure chance. But the 2 shooters were Palestinian ”freedom fighters” and obviously decided she posed a threat;

https://x.com/K0sher_C0ckney/status/1841155435287417339

https://x.com/K0sher_C0ckney/status/1841155939497308559

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CGW
CGW
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I have no information regarding the videos you link but they are dated 1st October, so presumably not linked to the 7th October outbreak.

From dropsitenews@substack.com:

The Israeli military killed at least 710 Palestinian babies before they made it to their first birthday, the equivalent of two infants under one year old killed by Israel every day for nearly a year. That’s according to a 649-page document published by the Ministry of Health in Gaza on Sunday listing the names of tens of thousands Palestinians killed by Israel between October 7 and August 31. 

A brief breakdown of the numbers killed:

Babies (less that one year old): 710 
Toddlers, 1-3: 1,793
Children, 4-12: 5,410
Children, 13-17: 3,442 
Total number under 18 years old killed: 11,355 

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CGW
CGW
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Iran supports Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hezbollah succeeded in kicking Israel out of Lebanon in 2008.

Hezbollah and Iran support the Palestinians who are being killed in large numbers on a daily basis by the Israelis because the Israelis clearly want to achieve a ‘clean’ Israel, i.e. a country without any Palestinians. The problem is that the Palestinians are the indigenous people; it is they who are being displaced (or killed) and their land taken (or stolen) by a century’s worth of Jewish immigration.

The UN proposed a partition of Palestine into two countries – Israel and Palestine – but that was not accepted by the Palestinians and it was ignored by Israel who unilaterally declared the State of Israel in 1948. The UN is a toothless entity and the trouble has been brewing ever since.

Netanyahu has been taunting Iran for many months now in the hope Iran would attack Israel and USA would leap in the battle to ‘defend’ Israel.

Wikipedia has a list of Israeli political assassinations since the 1950s, numbering around 400!

On 1st April 2024, Israel conducted an airstrike on the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, destroying the building housing its consular section. Sixteen people were killed in the strike, including eight officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and two Syrian civilians. The target was a Mohammad Reza Zahedi, an IRGC commander.

Note that an Israeli assassination is not shooting a single person with a sniper (they do that to children) but generally an attack with bombs or missiles. Israel is not particularly concerned about ‘collateral damage’.

On 31st July 2024, a Hamas leader and their main negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran, where he had been invited to the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s President, Masoud Pezeshkian, under the protection of the IRGC.

And, as I wrote above, on 27th September the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was assassinated in Beirut. From a religious standpoint he is linked to Iran’s Supreme Leader.

So, Iran has more than one reason to be seriously displeased with Israel. As far as I know, their missile attack was aimed at purely military or intelligence targets.

I do not claim in any way to be an expert in all this so feel free to contradict me.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  CGW

You don’t get to lob bombs into a country just because you “support” their military adversaries in a war.

The US and many European countries support the Ukraine. But they’re not lobbing rockets into Russia just because they support Ukraine. If they did it would be a declaration of war against Russia and Russia would then be entitled to attack back in kind.

Sorry regardless of what you think of what Israel may or may not have done in Lebanon or Gaza, Iran has no business bombing Israel.

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CGW
CGW
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

I would argue that we are indeed very active in the Ukraine conflict, in particular in the supply of spy satellite data and long-range missile programming. Many commentators worryingly implicate MI6 being always one short step behind the CIA when it comes to knowledge and active support of Ukrainian actions – even purely terrorist actions like the Crocus City Hall massacre. I hope they are wrong.

And if Iran has no business bombing Israel (with which I primarily agree) then Israel equally has no business bombing Lebanon or Gaza. It is always innocent civilians who suffer and thousands upon thousands are being killed or wounded, and their lives and their properties destroyed, as we sit comfortably in front of our computer screens arguing over this or that.

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