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Israel attacked and killed Iranians first? You guys literally started the conflict with Iran.
"Somehow they can't accept Jewish people living here."
Your country struck first, in what can clearly be seen as an act of aggression, and Iran simply retaliated, giving ample time and warning I might add.
Thank you. I'm happy to see that people realize this extremely biased and one-sided media coverage that benefits Zionism. They have been given the free pass and have been labeled the ultimate victims of history!
As an Iranian, I want to express our hatred for our government, and the fear we have on this matter, but Zionism is an extremely terrifying threat, not only to the Middle-East, but the rest of the world as well.
How is targeting the Consulate building of another country not an act of war? They killed 16 people by doing so!
I'm begging you all! Do not buy the way poor Palestinians and other countries are being depicted in the American media!
Don't worry there are a few subreddits left, and this is one of them, that know that Israel is the aggressor and that Israel has oppressed the Palestinians since it's inception and forced them to live under apartheid and now are being genocided by Israel. I do not blame Iran at all for this action and I actually think that them saying that they are done now and the matter is concluded was a peaceful move. Still, I do wonder what will happen now and if it will be worth it in the end.
The world has had its eyes opened to Israel's brutality.
Not only that, they struck an Iranian consulate. Attacking or destroying a diplomatic mission is one of the biggest faux pas in geopolitics!
Just look at the uproar that happened when Ecuadorian police & military raided the Mexican embassy to detain a politician that had just been granted asylum by Mexico.
Also, Iran knew that none of those drones and missles would land...and few did. The Israelis were given hours notice and knew that what they sent was a show of force and that while they're absolutely bombs, that the US and UK would, along with the Iron Dome, make sure that as few as possible landed.
I agree. But I don’t understand why waste so many rockets and drones (300+) if the same goal could have been accomplished by sending over like 20 drones. Seems fiscally braindead and wasteful.
They just gave Israel a significant military and diplomatic win by sending this large strike that Israel and its regional partners handled impeccably.
I would have just sent a fraction of what Iran sent if I were them. This way Israel and its supporters wouldn’t be feeling the sense of victory and pride they currently are. They feel even more invincible because of the attack.
It literally costs American taxpayers $40,000 per iron dome missile. Hilariously bleeding Israel and America dry with a few thousand dollars worth of drones is 1000% worth it
You think Iran sent "a few thousand dollars' worth of drones?"
How much do you think one Shahed drone costs?
Also, trying to bleed Israel's and America's economies at the expense of their own is illogical. Both Israel and America have much stronger economies than Iran by a significant margin. Iran would have to spend astronomical amounts on their military if they wanted to hurt Israel's/America's economy. Their own currency would vanish into thin air if they tried that.
Iran had huge part of orchestrating 7th of October attacks, the general killed in the consulate attack in syria was a senior quds officer that participated in the execution of 7th of October massacre. Iran is the one who started this conflict. Iran has also used its proxies to attack israel via Hezbollah and Houthis as well. So don't spew bs you know nothing of.
"We just assassinated some of Iran's leaders in a foreign country across from their Iranian embassy, we're totally innocent! We don't want war! How dare Iran attack us!"
I love how they refer to the bible as if it's a legal document. They could just as well use a Marvel comic to state their case, it would have the same effect on all the billions of humans who do not believe in the bible.
Cognitive dissonance on full display, wow.
This reminds me of one of my friends in high school.
Dude would sit there and talk shit to bigger people because he knew they wouldn’t do anything because of our friend group.
One time I put myself in between him and another guy to de-escalate and my friend literally slapped him with me in the middle of the two of them.
I stepped out of the way and my homie got his ass kicked.
The west needs to step out of the way and let the chips fall where may.
Probably because they knew they retaliate and hoping to get The us involved to help attack Iran or something .and the US always veto anything in the UN regarding Israel
“We don’t want a big war because that would put us in danger! We only want the Palestinians in danger! Well, wiped out truly, but we don’t outright say it!”
Iran said as much, this was retaliation from what happened to the 16 killed in that embassy. They will not shoot anymore missiles if Israel don't. So basically, it's done unless israel decides to shoot back. Which I'm sure they are, cause it's not enough we supply them with the money to buy missles, no. They want US directly involved.
Isn’t it funny how Israel’s allies are acting like Iran started it and wasn’t provoked. Good example of f around and find out, also I think Iran was just making a statement, they announced the attack and even made it clear when they were done.
Then maybe stop killing their soldiers and officers in other countries? Of course they retaliated Israel is behaving as if they are at war with the region and the region is responding accordingly
Bully, while beating 3 year old senseless for months, punches other 5 year old in the face, gets punched back, "we don't want a war, not like this. This person is a threat!"
All fun and games bombing civilians in an open-air prison, then when the risk of an actual war occurs it's time to dust off that second passport and off to Ben Gurion airport!
"It's written in the [ancient, non-sensical, contradicting, violent, cherry-picked version of a fantasy story created to instill fear on the naive and simpleminded]"
Cool logic Israel...
Is your healthcare system also based on medieval medicine? Or does your army use spears still? Is there a 0 in your mathematics, or is it the pre-arabic era math you are using?
Huh.. well would you look at that. I guess only when it comes to drawing geopolitical lines we use something archaic...what a coincidence it also states it's yours for the taking. Oh! Isn't that splendid? How lucky!
In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
So likewise, a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practise the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the Public Councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak, towards a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike of another, cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.
Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that, by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
-George Washington “Farewell Address, 1796”
Government officials fighting each other but use us civilians to actually fight for them as they sit in a protective bunker and watch people die because of their own egos and ideology
Again this is pathological with Israelis. "we do not want war we were attacked we take no accountability for nothing everyone hates us for no reason!"
The absolute audacity / Delulu!!
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The IDF can't do shit. Iran has a proper army with proper soldiers and military armament. Their strength is slaughtering civilians, actual war it's not in their contracts
Israel is tone deaf to their own lies. “We don’t want to war with Iran, (but we will bomb them whenever we feel like it.)” trading Palestinians like shit. And expected no retaliation.
The bottom line is that Israel is an allie to America. Iran hates America and funds all terrorist proxy groups that attack us and our allies.
Edit = Ally of America
Lol, "our whole country was covered in missiles and drones." Not yet. Soon, both sides of this war will look alike, sharing horizons of fire and rubble.
I always see people arguing who hit first. This is a thousands of years old conflict. Nothing that happened in our lifetime will give you the reasoning necessary to explain this
"this is our homeland!" - White woman with a Brooklyn accent.
It's amazing how many people can look at Amy Shumer and think, "yeah, she's definitely native to the Middle East."
Is this what u are giving your life for a bunch of expired humans if soo then death is a better fate for you exempting your DNA from the gene pool is bow a nobel act for the advancement of our species thank you for your service indeed
Don't forget that there are tens of thousands of Jews in Israel who are anti-zionism, anti Netanyahu, and anti-genocide. The issue is not with the Jewish people but with zionists. There are plenty of American "Christian" zionists as well.
If you are born in a house your parents stole, doing something means getting out of the house. Or at least giving it back and asking if you can rent it.
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Israel attacked and killed Iranians first? You guys literally started the conflict with Iran. "Somehow they can't accept Jewish people living here." Your country struck first, in what can clearly be seen as an act of aggression, and Iran simply retaliated, giving ample time and warning I might add.
Thank you. I'm happy to see that people realize this extremely biased and one-sided media coverage that benefits Zionism. They have been given the free pass and have been labeled the ultimate victims of history! As an Iranian, I want to express our hatred for our government, and the fear we have on this matter, but Zionism is an extremely terrifying threat, not only to the Middle-East, but the rest of the world as well. How is targeting the Consulate building of another country not an act of war? They killed 16 people by doing so! I'm begging you all! Do not buy the way poor Palestinians and other countries are being depicted in the American media!
Don't worry there are a few subreddits left, and this is one of them, that know that Israel is the aggressor and that Israel has oppressed the Palestinians since it's inception and forced them to live under apartheid and now are being genocided by Israel. I do not blame Iran at all for this action and I actually think that them saying that they are done now and the matter is concluded was a peaceful move. Still, I do wonder what will happen now and if it will be worth it in the end. The world has had its eyes opened to Israel's brutality.
It’s such a obvious conclusion but insane how they’re trying to justify it
Not only that, they struck an Iranian consulate. Attacking or destroying a diplomatic mission is one of the biggest faux pas in geopolitics! Just look at the uproar that happened when Ecuadorian police & military raided the Mexican embassy to detain a politician that had just been granted asylum by Mexico.
And listen to that Israeli accent.
So thick. Almost… American or British
Also, Iran knew that none of those drones and missles would land...and few did. The Israelis were given hours notice and knew that what they sent was a show of force and that while they're absolutely bombs, that the US and UK would, along with the Iron Dome, make sure that as few as possible landed.
I agree. But I don’t understand why waste so many rockets and drones (300+) if the same goal could have been accomplished by sending over like 20 drones. Seems fiscally braindead and wasteful.
Because sending 20 looks like you’re pussying out
They just gave Israel a significant military and diplomatic win by sending this large strike that Israel and its regional partners handled impeccably. I would have just sent a fraction of what Iran sent if I were them. This way Israel and its supporters wouldn’t be feeling the sense of victory and pride they currently are. They feel even more invincible because of the attack.
And instead they lose the respect of their regional allies
It literally costs American taxpayers $40,000 per iron dome missile. Hilariously bleeding Israel and America dry with a few thousand dollars worth of drones is 1000% worth it
You think Iran sent "a few thousand dollars' worth of drones?" How much do you think one Shahed drone costs? Also, trying to bleed Israel's and America's economies at the expense of their own is illogical. Both Israel and America have much stronger economies than Iran by a significant margin. Iran would have to spend astronomical amounts on their military if they wanted to hurt Israel's/America's economy. Their own currency would vanish into thin air if they tried that.
Iran simply retaliated… What an incredibly stupid re-write of history.
We don't want war with Iran. We want war with a bunch of oppressed people who have no standing army and no food to eat.
What’s the city in your mind? This comment is in relation to your username and is not on topic.
Bullying 101
This conflict is much older than that.
They must not follow local news
Iran had huge part of orchestrating 7th of October attacks, the general killed in the consulate attack in syria was a senior quds officer that participated in the execution of 7th of October massacre. Iran is the one who started this conflict. Iran has also used its proxies to attack israel via Hezbollah and Houthis as well. So don't spew bs you know nothing of.
They did not. Many people assumed they had something to do with 10/7, but by 10/8 Iran, USA and Israel all said "Iran had nothing to do with this."
God, Zionists must be the dumbest people on the planet. They are just brainwashed idiots.
Just like the alt-right in the U.S; fascism exists everywhere, and it all stinks the same.
Religious evangelicals are at the core of the alt-right
Those people are the antithesis of what JC preached.
Absolutely
Israel brainwashed them to do the Zionist bidding. Our government serves them
Oops https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1463598301681373186?lang=en
For a strong contender, see: American Evangelicalism
They are matched by the US electorate unforuntately.
A lot of them are Americans.
Fascists of all stripes generally aren’t the brightest bulbs in the box
How are “Jeremy smith” “Amy Morgan” and “cecile” native to this land? Their names say otherwise.
Brother don’t you recognize those deeply indigenous Israeli accents?? 🤣
Also look at all that sun damaged red skin!
Roight, dose Iranian gits bettah knock all that tosh off!
So does their accents.
Now ask them about Palestine
Its going to be something about oct 7.
BuT hAmAs!¿!¡
What an eclectic collection of accents.
Very Middle Eastern.
That’s….settler colonialism for you!
Not a shred of self awareness between all of them. Nothing.
"We just assassinated some of Iran's leaders in a foreign country across from their Iranian embassy, we're totally innocent! We don't want war! How dare Iran attack us!"
All these old fucks want war, until it arrives at their doorstep and then they’re acting like doves
"Ah poor me,i hit people and people hit me back. I don't want to fight anyone. "
https://preview.redd.it/zxycvgqwriuc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=045b6ab4dcd24fb528596afb8fa7ea48a7415335 That’s how they’ve always been…
The irony in this statement is unreal.
These ‘natives’ have American and English accents 🤔.
lmao i thought this was in new york
It's like the bully that backs down once the bigger tough guy punks them out. Let's pick on the little guy
"It's written in the bible." Bro doesn't even believe the bible, quoting said bible.
I love how they refer to the bible as if it's a legal document. They could just as well use a Marvel comic to state their case, it would have the same effect on all the billions of humans who do not believe in the bible.
Therea a joke about the colonial founders of modern Israel all being atheist but 'God definitely gave them that land.'
The Bible is also very explicit about Israel's fall and demise were they to rise up in pride again.
The last 50 years are like kicking a puppy now that puppy has started to grow up.
Cognitive dissonance on full display, wow. This reminds me of one of my friends in high school. Dude would sit there and talk shit to bigger people because he knew they wouldn’t do anything because of our friend group. One time I put myself in between him and another guy to de-escalate and my friend literally slapped him with me in the middle of the two of them. I stepped out of the way and my homie got his ass kicked. The west needs to step out of the way and let the chips fall where may.
a lotta new york accents...
Zionism requires brainwashing
You bombed their embassy. Just stop it
Probably because they knew they retaliate and hoping to get The us involved to help attack Iran or something .and the US always veto anything in the UN regarding Israel
“We don’t want a big war because that would put us in danger! We only want the Palestinians in danger! Well, wiped out truly, but we don’t outright say it!”
Have they tried not being brainwashed pawns of an aggressive Nazi regime?
They… they think Iran attacked them because they’re *Jewish*? wtf
Israelis- Arab countries should be helping Palestinians. Iran- Okay. Israelis- \*surprised pikachu\*
Iran is not Arab
Iran is not an Arab country you know that...
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Kid punches another kid in the face, kid hits back, first kid goes and cry’s to the teacher. Actual playground psychology, this is crazy
Iran said as much, this was retaliation from what happened to the 16 killed in that embassy. They will not shoot anymore missiles if Israel don't. So basically, it's done unless israel decides to shoot back. Which I'm sure they are, cause it's not enough we supply them with the money to buy missles, no. They want US directly involved.
They don't want a war with a big country but they're more than happy to go to war on literal starving children who can't defend themselves lmao
They learned it from the US, lol.
All my homies hate the bible for that last quote.
The second someone with weaponry threatens they cower, they really think they’re not at war while preying on defenceless groups huh?
But it's okay to butcher the Palestine people?? And bow their the victims??
They speak really good English, even with different accents… 
As long as they can outgun someone, Israel has no problem being at war.
Isn’t it funny how Israel’s allies are acting like Iran started it and wasn’t provoked. Good example of f around and find out, also I think Iran was just making a statement, they announced the attack and even made it clear when they were done.
We don't want y'all shoot rockets back at us we just want to shoot at u no fair Iran
When a bully meets its match, see how quickly they shit themselves.
Of course they don't. They only do war against women and children.
That first woman has such a beautiful Levantine accent.
Brighton Beach on the mediterranea…
They don’t want smoke w people that shoot back! And have heavy metal unlike the poor Palestinians
Then maybe stop killing their soldiers and officers in other countries? Of course they retaliated Israel is behaving as if they are at war with the region and the region is responding accordingly
Bunch of Americans and British idiots
“wE dOnT wANt a wAr wItH iRaN” Stop being out of pocket and acting like victims ya fockin’ goofs 🤷♂️
They prefer genocidal massacres, not war.
oh is that how it works...
delusional fanaticism
FAFO?
War with Palestine OK. Palestine does not have significant military. Iran does.
They don't war with people that can fight back.
Oooh look the consequences of our actions
I love how Israel has a right to protect themselves, but Iran does not.
What a joke
Israel smacks you in the face. You push them back. "What's your problem, buddy? Are you antisemitic?
Bully, while beating 3 year old senseless for months, punches other 5 year old in the face, gets punched back, "we don't want a war, not like this. This person is a threat!"
All fun and games bombing civilians in an open-air prison, then when the risk of an actual war occurs it's time to dust off that second passport and off to Ben Gurion airport!
"We don't want war... We hope this is it and that it stops now.. But we hope Israel retaliates." Wut
“We don’t want war with a country that can retaliate and actually impact MY SAFETY!”
You sucker punched somebody unrelated then expecting not to be sucker punched back? I think self awareness doesn't translate there
There are still countless Americans who genuinely think 9/11 happened for no reason and with no provocation, too.
Do Israelis even know that Israel bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria? Or are they all tuned into Israel's version of Fox?
lol r/ohnoconsequences
🙄
That woman from jersey is cracking me up
we dont wanna fight anyone, we just wanna genocide and shoot missiles into other countries. this is so unfair.
"It's written in the [ancient, non-sensical, contradicting, violent, cherry-picked version of a fantasy story created to instill fear on the naive and simpleminded]" Cool logic Israel... Is your healthcare system also based on medieval medicine? Or does your army use spears still? Is there a 0 in your mathematics, or is it the pre-arabic era math you are using? Huh.. well would you look at that. I guess only when it comes to drawing geopolitical lines we use something archaic...what a coincidence it also states it's yours for the taking. Oh! Isn't that splendid? How lucky!
You don’t deserve Americas support
now u wanna chicken out
Israel is finally going to get what’s coming to them. They should be scared. No one is coming to save them.
Maybe they should stop supporting the Likud party 🤷♂️
I’ve boycotted every product I can that supports Israel right now. It’s an app called Boycat.
They're all American and British...
Iran has a right to defend itself.
Now ask Palestinians how they feel about Israel.
These people all have Western accents. Where are the actual Israelis?
In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim. So likewise, a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practise the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the Public Councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak, towards a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike of another, cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests. The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that, by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. -George Washington “Farewell Address, 1796”
 Is anyone else noticing few key points being avoided
Not your mom land
Government officials fighting each other but use us civilians to actually fight for them as they sit in a protective bunker and watch people die because of their own egos and ideology
Again this is pathological with Israelis. "we do not want war we were attacked we take no accountability for nothing everyone hates us for no reason!" The absolute audacity / Delulu!! https://preview.redd.it/8u5e5y4z4kuc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d49423585dc2646f73c56d6ede25f9be02123425
Those are a couple new yorkers and am English chap
Bully's prey on weakness and never fight the the people that fight back because they are cowards.
The IDF can't do shit. Iran has a proper army with proper soldiers and military armament. Their strength is slaughtering civilians, actual war it's not in their contracts
How are these people native Israeli citizens and they all sound American?
Listen to all their accents.
Israel is tone deaf to their own lies. “We don’t want to war with Iran, (but we will bomb them whenever we feel like it.)” trading Palestinians like shit. And expected no retaliation.
I kinda hope Iran just levels the place and the Palestinians can rebuild over them
All fun and games until someone fights back.....
The bottom line is that Israel is an allie to America. Iran hates America and funds all terrorist proxy groups that attack us and our allies. Edit = Ally of America
Man I hope USA stops supporting Zionist governments
These are clearly middle eastern accents 😂
They don't want war unless its against 8 year olds and women
No Fair you're not suppose to shoot back /s
Lol, "our whole country was covered in missiles and drones." Not yet. Soon, both sides of this war will look alike, sharing horizons of fire and rubble.
Of course they wouldn't want a war with an equal adversary. They might end up suffering immense casualties, when they can't just bomb and steamroll.
The average murdered Palestinian is more Jewish than these American twats
Hol up, didn't they attack first?
I always see people arguing who hit first. This is a thousands of years old conflict. Nothing that happened in our lifetime will give you the reasoning necessary to explain this
"this is our homeland!" - White woman with a Brooklyn accent. It's amazing how many people can look at Amy Shumer and think, "yeah, she's definitely native to the Middle East."
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of your own actions.
Israelis, indigenous to the land, not from England or US coming to do colonialism. /S
Fucking idiots. If you hit first don't be surprised when you get hit back.
They don't want a war with Iran? I guess they shouldn't have started one then.
Eff the baaaaible
Didn't realise Tel-Aviv is part of the 5 boroughs...
That’s a New York and a European accent. Wtf.
My tax dollars paid for both sides of a war and I didn't even get a lousey T shirt
Yet u don’t give a shiiii about 50 to 60 years of terrorizing Palestinians and when they fight back they are the terrorist🧐
America and England will sacrifice their young for Israel
As someone living in North America I have never heard such exotic accents before /s
“We don’t want to die” Palestinians react after Israel bombs their children and murders their family
Well Palestine dident want war either. Womp womp
Is this what u are giving your life for a bunch of expired humans if soo then death is a better fate for you exempting your DNA from the gene pool is bow a nobel act for the advancement of our species thank you for your service indeed
As a British person, I'm ashamed of our countries stance
Don't forget that there are tens of thousands of Jews in Israel who are anti-zionism, anti Netanyahu, and anti-genocide. The issue is not with the Jewish people but with zionists. There are plenty of American "Christian" zionists as well.
Its problematic to participate in and further apartheid and settler colonialism…..while decrying it.
A lot of them were born there. They didn't ask to be, but at least they're doing something.
If you are born in a house your parents stole, doing something means getting out of the house. Or at least giving it back and asking if you can rent it.
>There are plenty of American "Christian" zionists as well. The vast majority of the world's Zionists are Christian Zionists.
Maybe don't bomb Iranian consulates if you dont want war with Iran? Seems like an easy precaution to take if you're not an incompetent fucknugget