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[–] hector@lemmy.today 7 points 13 hours ago

If you have a better way for Israel to forestall elections and reckoning for their failure to keep their ghetto under control we would love to hear it. Because using the epstein blackmail to force the US into starting our new forever war, Persian Gulf War III, is what we are working with here.

And there will be no shortage of pretexts to reopen hostilities no matter of peace agreements afterwards, hence the forever part. We had to cross over to hit a militant group, terror group, whatever. Every time Israel's leaders' approval ratings are down or they are facing a vote they can pretext up another round of Iran war.

The beauty of it, for them, is that Iran is nearly powerless to respond. They've a non existant airforce, rudimentary missiles and air defense, and are fundamentally compromised in their communications on a base level allowing near total visibility in what they are doing. Satelites, drones, the air forces, it's fun killing people that can't fight back! /s