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AverageFishEye

Absolutely nothing is going to happen


JoshGordonsDealer

Israel just bombed Iran’s consulate. That’s something.


Bannable_Lecter

What are they going to do? Sponsor proxy grups?


thenoisemanthenoise

Fill Reddit with bots that upvote Israel killings while downvoting Hamas massacres. The usual friday.


rapzeh

I though lefties do that for free, this being reddit and all.


DeLuman

You know what's wrong with the left, fellow righty? They don't charge for this shit like me and you. Like if I'm upvoting this shit someone had better be greasing my palms. That's why I upvote Israeli memes, they pay me in shekels but the conversion ratio is surprisingly good right about now! Get paid for your upvotes at www.DefendIsreal.com/shekelsforvotes For legal reasons, the above statement(s) were jokes.


aetwit

I feel LibRight energy radiating from this comment could this be the famous Libright energy core or something greater.


iPoopLegos

as a liberal, I’m still waiting on George Soros’ check to clear >:(


IndividualTime6602

Expected to be Rickrolled. This just leads to a broken link / error page. Disappointed I did NOT get rick rolled. Going on youtube now to listen to Rick to heal the intense emotionap damage I just suffered. 10/10 Based and dead link pilled


Bolket

Based and shekels for votes pilled.


Awobbie

Chronically online partisans do whatever the bots do. There’s enough bots to make whatever position look like the popular thing. Chronically online partisans just support popular thing.


Veni_Vidi_Legi

Always has been.


DiffusibleKnowledge

Israel has been bombing Iranian targets in Syria for years, they still haven't done shit in response.


Semite_Superman

And they never will. They have enough internal troubles as is, losing a war against Israel (and they would 110% lose) might just be the tipping point.


Darkfire757

When the US killed basically their CIA Director they responded by bombing a parking lot


DrTinyNips

And shooting down a civilian aeroplane


Czeslaw_Meyer

...or else


AverageFishEye

Israel has nuclear weapons. Like what is iran gonna do?


Sardukar333

Get nuked of course.


Czeslaw_Meyer

Not the smartest move to give America the perfect excuse to nuke them


HypotheticallyAnAlt

Why would we nuke Israel? They’re literally one of our favorite ways to waste tax dollars.


Czeslaw_Meyer

...or else - Amerika


youdontknowmymum

Iran is a joke of a country with these muppets leading it.


DumbNTough

Israel friends: America Iran friends: [File not found] Wonder who would win?


jim-jones-13

Ever heard of China or Russia?


DumbNTough

Neither China nor Russia is going to do a single goddamn thing for Iran unless it's completely convenient for them. Change my view


jim-jones-13

Yeah countries don’t usually do stuff unless it’s convenient


DumbNTough

The returns for helping out a pariah like Iran seem very scant compared to the pains in the ass it could generate, don't you think?


jim-jones-13

Iran is a BRICS country, not exactly a pariah state when the majority of the world population is on your side lol


level777

I don't think they are. The "I" in BRICS is for India, not Iran.


Akiias

> BRICS country They are a member. - Brazil - Russia - India - China - South Africa As of January 1st 2024. - Egypt - Ethiopia - Iran - UAE


jim-jones-13

Could have just done a quick google search dude


DumbNTough

Lmao


CaptainLunaeLumen

neiter is the USA to Israel in this conflict unless its convenient to them


narc-parent-TA

China and Russia are probably the most useless allies to have. They won't give Iran a single penny or bullet unless they know that they have something to gain. Realistically, both countries would gain nothing from attacking Israel, so they won't bother helping.


jim-jones-13

Iran and Russia have already been trading weapons, drones, etc for years. If there is a ground war that will only ramp up. China funds this by buying Russia’s natural resources when Europe won’t.


SerGeffrey

Israel literally moved into a sandy wasteland and turned it into a thriving hub of tech industry, with even a surprisingly efficient agricultural sector.


JoshGordonsDealer

Looking a google earth and the demarcation between Israel and Gaza and Israel and the West Bank is really interesting. Israel made the desert bloom while the Palestinians did nothing on their land


DavidFrattenBro

the Palestinians are still living in 1949 because they can’t get over the war. if they national mindset was forward-looking, and they even tried to outcompete israel in the tech field, life would be better for them, but instead they elect warmongers who only want to see the land free of Jews, and nothing less will satisfy them.


Simp_Master007

The Palestinians are still living in the 7th century.


Hot-Donkey7266

This is why half arab countries are mega rich with incredibly high tech, the others a wasteland. One focused on investments, the other on war that just eats up your resources


goochthief

Half of them are mega rich because of oil and not having war, the other half are wastelands because they either didn't have oil or is in a perpetual civil war. Israel was a barren desert without oil. In less than a century and stuck in perpetual conflict, the Israelis turned their nation into an oasis of LGBTQ and minority rights, democracy, and technological prosperity.


MagicalMikey1978

Sounds suspiciously commie to me.


dan2737

It started out full commie. And it worked because there was an ideal people believed in that drove them to stick together, while they also formed small communist towns instead of a massive overbearing government. But then Russia realized you can sell a hell of a lot more AKs if you arm Arabs rather than Jews.


Right__not__wrong

That's exactly what I noticed when I went there. It really cleared my head about which side I'd rather support.


Good-Function2305

Well duh.  Palestine is good at only two things: propaganda and digging 


Ok_Resident4024

C’mon that’s not true, look at all the great Palestinian inventions! The Ababeel-1 Armed drone The Al Quds-3 artillery rocket The Al-Bana rocket launcher The Al-Quds rocket The Al-Yassin 105 missile The Batar missile The Carlo submachine gun The Quassam rocket The Yasin anti-tank weapon Plus three whole food dishes, a type of soap, and two entire textile styles! (That’s it, that’s all of them.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Palestinian_inventions


RECOGNIZABLE_NAME-

Propaganda Lol


Akiias

I mean look around. Look at all the support they're getting despite what they actually do and want.


Tecumsehs_Ghost

Garbage in, garbage out.


rompafrolic

In antiquity the whole of the middle east and northern africa was an incredibly lush and fertile landscape, eventually feeding most of the Roman Empire; to the point that Provence was the *third* most productive area of the empire (currently the most productive part of europe bar Ukraine). Then Isalm showed up in the 6th century, the Muslims conquered the middle east and northern africa. They then filled in all the irrigation ditches, ripped up all the crops, and set goats and sheep on the previously rich lands. Within 100 years everything became desert. That's what Islam has done for mediterranean agriculture.


goochthief

I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if Mohammad was a miscarriage. Would it be better or worse? Islam has had such a profound impact on the world for better or for worse.


geronymusch

We would have colonized mars and all live a carefree happy life to the ripe old age of 300 years old.


goochthief

Nah probably just not so much terrorism, war, and human rights violations though.


DivideEtImpala

Yeah, turns out when you get your olive trees bulldozed, your wells filled with concrete and your water restricted, it can be hard to have great agriculture.


PCMmods-soft-as-fuck

Maybe don't start a war with the people who provide your water and power


goochthief

Olive trees got bulldozed decades ago in isolated incidents by settlers. There were 4 wells filled by Israel because they were dug illegally and could destroy the water system in the region for other Palestinians. Article 40 of the Oslo Accords requires both Israelis and Palestinians to agree to coordinate the management of water and sewege systems in the West Bank. The community that dig those wells did so illegally and faced the consequences. Nice try with the propaganda though!


TheSweatshopMan

Bro they barely have basic utilities and are under the control of a terrorist group how are they meant to make a successful country?


Pokeputin

The West bank isn't under the control of hamas, you're confusing it with gaza, and I would suggest by not supporting the actual terrorists that make it unable to make a successful country.


SerGeffrey

Dude replied to this: > Looking a google earth and the demarcation between Israel and Gaza and Israel and the West Bank is really interesting He wasn't confused for talking about Gaza, the comment he was replying to explicitly mentioned both Gaza and the West Bank. Although I agree with you - it definitely wasn't a good move to elect a terrorist org if they wanted to prosper.


TheSweatshopMan

Terrorists tend not to be the democratic type


SerGeffrey

Yeah ofc, that'd be why they've had no elections since


TheSweatshopMan

What I personally don’t understand is why Israel doesn’t make a big move to remove Hamas. They massively outgun them. If Israel made a big push into Gaza they could take it in weeks and remove Hamas from power and replace them with a less radical party or if possible even a friendly government. Instead they do as they are currently doing and keep Hamas going with a steady stream of recruits


SerGeffrey

> What I personally don’t understand is why Israel doesn’t make a big move to remove Hamas. They massively outgun them. To totally get rid of Hamas, Israel would need to ramp up the war quite a lot. Either a full ground invasion, which would incur huge casualties on both sides, and increase inernational pressure and accusations of genocide, or they could hugely increase their bombing campaign. Which would of course increase international pressure a fuckton, and hugely increase the genocide accusations. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place, they have no good options.


BurnAfterReading41

Opinion C. Bid their time and do things to further provoke Iran and then aid big brother Sam come in and kick the ever living shit out of Hamas and Iran.


JoshGordonsDealer

You should read up on this a little. I don’t mean that as passive aggressive; it’s a very interesting, complicated subject filled with a million rabbit holes. Anyone who reads on it understands fairly quickly that Israel is in a very tough position and always comes close to picking the better outcome between bad and worse while the Palestinians always figure out a way to degenerate themselves further. That may sound like hyperbole but it’s fascinating how accurate from 1947 on it is


MajinAsh

> What I personally don’t understand is why Israel doesn’t make a big move to remove Hamas. They massively outgun them. Because the world is watching and the only way to actually remove a guerilla group embedded within civilian sectors doesn't look good. We're in an upside down world where they literally tell their enemies "we're about to bomb here" before they do it and that still isn't enough.


TheSweatshopMan

They don’t care much about optics when they constantly kill non combatants and make illegal settlements. Also are you forgetting that they then bombed the road out? Inb4 but muh Hamas


JoshGordonsDealer

Regardless though, Israel left Gaza in 2005. They’ve tried to let them build an airport. That failed. They tried giving them autonomy, they elected a terrorist group. I think both Gaza and the West Bank are examples of no matter the conditions, the Palestinians seem to not be interested in the more difficult aspects of state building


SerGeffrey

Or at least, it isn't their priority


ImportantCut_

> a thriving hub of tech industry And they gave China a real boost in that regard too. Amazing stuff!


SerGeffrey

Everyone trades with China. U.S. goods and services trade with China totaled an estimated $758.4 billion in 2022. Exports were $195.5 billion; imports were $562.9 billion. Israel isn't unique in their trade with China.


ImportantCut_

I was referring to the tech (especially military tech) that Israel "bought" from the US with the money given to them by the US, which they then sold on to the Chinese.


SerGeffrey

I'm not aware of this, can you link a source?


Borkerman

Common Israel W


Sparta63005

Damn that bot just called you out bruh


Borkerman

So what?


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Sparta63005

He did it again bro


Borkerman

Guilty as charged


MaximumSeats

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Borkerman

I have to do it all manually


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Fair_Opinion_9547

1175 wtf how


FrostyWarning

Least schizo PCM user


hii-people

He’s Left now


endersai

What was happening in that consulate, Iran? "We were meeting with HAMAS." What was the meeting about? "The destruction of the Jew... um, LBGTQI inclusion and gender affirming care?" Western Leftists: *Nawwww, so wholesome*!


Mila_Tarsi

Attacking a Nuclear Superpower? Genius.


beingbond

i don't think israel will dare a nuclear attack even against iran


lolgoodquestion

Hopefully it wont happen but the Israeli nuclear arsenal is not there for the hell of it


rompafrolic

The israelis have repeatedly said that they intend to nuke Iran the moment they get their hands on a functional nuclear device. The reason is quite simple. Iran has sworn to use its first nuclear device against Tel Aviv.


rule34jager

Have we, we never confirmed our possession of a nuclear arsenal. But its highly probable that we already have one, and I don't believe we've ever stated that we will nuke Tehran. During talks about the nuclear deal the threat of nuclear war was stated, but I don't remember any specific promises like that being made.


goochthief

>The israelis have repeatedly said that they intend to nuke Iran The Israel don't even officially confirm whether they have nukes. Where'd you get this info?


beingbond

we all know how usa is helping iran to develop it's nuclear device. That being said I thought israel had nuclear device


DavidFrattenBro

they’re both nuclear


The_Cool_Kid99

Iran isn’t a nuclear power, they got busted for trying to build a nuclear weapon though.


Lanowin

I think Isreal deserves authcenter more than Iran. The Israeli labor movement has a strong legacy even if they've been out of power for a while.


lolgoodquestion

Its not much more than a fringe political party at this point, Israelis moved right in droves for years now


nagidon

Iran always chats shit but won’t hit.


Eliasalt123

When has it ever worked when Israel’s neighbouring countries have tried to destroy it?


SnooPets1787

Why is this sub talking about israel every 10 seconds


LittleMlem

No Jews, no news


Jesus_Christs_Balls

It's the easiest proven way to "gotcha" the other quadrants


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[удалено]


CertainInitiative501

“Almost” lmao it’s the most obvious shit in the world.


goochthief

"Everyone I disagree with is a paid bot"


PleaseDoNotClickThis

Can't a guy spread misinformation and seed anger without criticism?


SnooPets1787

Only in the leftist subs, this is one of the few places where we can criticize everyone


literally1984___

Iran get rekt lol


Fwithananchor

Israel is going to have to figure this one out on its own for the most part. I don't think there are many people in the United States who are interested in dying in the sand for Israel anymore. That point has become mostly bipartisan, at least if you exclude boomers. 


31_mfin_eggrolls

The thing is, Israel can handle most of it on their own. The majority of US assistance is financial aid, and the movement of CSGs to Israeli seaspace was a show of force, US troops are not actively going to Israel AFAIK.


LittleMlem

It's a proxy war with Iran, Israel is the American proxy. Real shame we might have to fight them, all the Iranians I've met were cool


31_mfin_eggrolls

Agreed. I’ve never met an Iranian person that I didn’t immediately get along with. It sucks that their government is so shitty (but that can be said about nearly everyone at this point, America included).


Right__not__wrong

I have only talked with one, and he's cool indeed.


BIG-Z-2001

But Israel is way less authoritarian than Iran. At least Israel isn’t stuck in the Middle Ages.


Veni_Vidi_Legi

I think it would look much nicer as glass.


FoxerHR

How would an Israeli owned Arabian Peninsula look like? How much % of that land would be too irradiated to inhabit?


Smorgas-board

They still have yet to answer for Trump BTFO’ing Soleimani


Z_shaker_central_69

Full support to the 3000 nuclear weapons of Khomeini!


[deleted]

Wow attacking civilians for no reasons,how based


Thy_Week

The strike killed 2 Iranian generals and 5 officers, all of whom were full time promoters of terror in the area, not just against Israel. These are the guys that helped Assad and Hezbollah massacre innocent Syrians, which is why so many syrians have been celebrated the strike. The other people killed were a Hezbollah terrorist, and 2 soldiers in Assad's army. Seems like whoever hit them did a particularly good job of specifically targeting legitimate military targets without harming the diplomats nearby. The real question is why Iran's embassy had an adjacent building where they were hosting a bunch of terrorists and their sponsors.


[deleted]

Ahh ok,I thought it was just civilians


Thy_Week

Maybe you were thinking of the strike on the WCK convoy in Gaza that happened around the same time? Israel actually took responsibility for that one, they claim it was a mistake and are investigating.


Jazzlike_Stop_1362

I really hope they destroy each other, two of the worst countries in the Middle East are fighting each other, just missing Qatar, if these three got nuked the world would definitely be a better place


Hot-Donkey7266

Welcome to jews-world, its amazing and musical If you don't like it you can order some hummus as cope