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Iran warns Israel to stop war in Gaza or region will 'go out of control' (www.bbc.com)

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Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned Israel that the Middle East could spiral out of control if it does not stop strikes on Gaza.

He said the US was also "to blame" for providing military support to Israel.

Hours later, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warned troops his people were in a battle for their lives and said the war against Hamas was "do or die".

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, the famously stable Middle East otherwise

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

dude its not the easterners killing its the westerners the majority demographic that are blowing up everyone and their momerz

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I warn Iran to tell their terrorist Hamas gang to surrender and free all hostages including the Gazan people.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Absolutely, the Palestinians should stop bombing themselves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned Israel that the Middle East could spiral out of control if it does not stop strikes on Gaza.

"I warn the US and its proxy Israel that if they do not immediately stop the crime against humanity and genocide in Gaza, anything is possible at any moment and the region will go out of control," Mr Amir-Abdollahian said at a news conference in Tehran.

"If any group or any country is looking to widen this conflict and take advantage of this very unfortunate situation... our advice is: don't," he said on the ABC network's This Week programme.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also mentioned a "likelihood of escalation" from Iranian proxies, such as Hezbollah or Hamas, and said the US was "taking every measure to make sure we can defend" Israelis and US citizens.

Also on Sunday, Mr Netanyahu paid a visit to troops in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, which has seen exchanges of fire with Hezbollah since the early days of the conflict.

And in neighbouring Syria - where Iran has a military presence - Israeli missiles hit Damascus and Aleppo international airports early on Sunday, killing at least two workers, according to Syrian state media.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Iran cares for Gaza in the same way the US cares for Ukraine.

They don't, but they're happy to arm them in order to make their opponent weaker.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Iranian politely threatens a nation besieged less than three weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One terrorist attack doesn’t equal a siege. Cutting off supplies and blockading a territory is a siege. Palestinians have been under some for decades now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you’re saying palestinians have been denied supplies and have been in a blockade for decades? are you aware that an actually besieged population resorts to cannibalism within a month’s time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When was the last time a Gaza citizen could leave the region without the permission of the Israeli government? Just because the siege is done in a way to maximize good pr doesn’t make the siege non existent.

The overwhelming majority of available water is non potable and malnutrition is an epidemic there but they are still alive so I guess it’s not actually happening in your eyes.

Remember when the IDF murdered a bunch of activists for trying to sail in with food and medical supplies on a flotilla? Here’s some info on what happened:

“According to a UN report, all activist deaths were caused by gunshots, and "the circumstances of the killing of at least six of the passengers were in a manner consistent with an extra-legal, arbitrary and summary execution."”

This was in 2010 and the blockade hasn’t ceased to exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

so you can’t leave then decide to fly on a bicycle to attack for the sake of pr, brilliant nobel peace prize flawless victory please continue

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What are you referring to here? I think you mistyped.

Regardless. The average age of a person in Gaza is 18. The percentage of Hamas militants among the population is around 1%. Stop treating the people like a monolith. I know it makes it easy for people to justify atrocities but it’s intellectually lazy.

These are mostly children that are suffering, born into the iron grip of a fundamentalist regime with zero access education of any kind.

By all means keep justifying their collective abuse if you want. Just be more honest about what you advocate.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

PalestineNexus.com is a great resource to learn about this region and the people involved in this conflict.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's definitely not biased AF.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Never said it wasn’t. Zachary J. Foster is a Ph.D student in the Near East Studies Department at Princeton University, focusing on the modern Middle East.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Yea, sometimes to truly understand an issue, situation or long standing human conversation or culture, there is simply no escaping biased sources all the way to the point where you actually want to seek them out, especially if they themselves do their bias and cause as much "justice" as they can.

One, because there's always bias, so trying to escape it is futile to the point of constructing a bias all on its own. Two, because the situation/issue/culture/conversation is the biases, and so if you want to understand it you have to understand the biases of the various parties, to understand the parties themselves and their interactions ... right?!

This isn't "two-side-ism", where you stridently presume neutrality and give all sides equal uncritical weight, but rather that you try to understand all sides even when you're pretty sure you want attack their position as strongly as you can.

In application, this often manifests in the fact that best way to understand an argument is to study the side you are inclined to disagree with or the side that is stridently in the minority. The general idea is to not try to avoid bias to try to seek it out and characterise it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

Oh, he was on Hasan's stream recently and did a fantastic job dunking on zionist video.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Debunking Zionist talking points? Looks good to me. Zionists are amongst the most biased, indoctrinated groups I've talked to. They make Americans look practically objective.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Glad I could help. He also has YouTube videos.

[+] [email protected] -21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What a disgusting comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Frankly, disgusting or not, it's essentially accurate. Israel is not going to tolerate Hamas and a militarized Gaza continuing to exist, regardless of how many people on the internet post criticisms of it.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but on the other hand. This situation can't stay like this. Something needs to happen even if it's horrible and disgusting. Imagine a small part of land attached to your country that keeps attacking you and if you fight back your the enemy. That's not sustainable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

imagine having a country stolen from you and then being placed in a tiny area where you literally can't escape from or leave without the risk of being killed. Then imagine you're called a terrorist for attacking the people occupying your stolen land.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Imagine making excuses for terrorists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It's not an excuse, but it's an explanation. What Israel has been doing with the Gaza strip is literally textbook "how to breed terrorists"

Obviously the terror that ensued is horrible and needs to be condemned. But just killing every current Hamas follower and then leaving the situation as is will just create another Hamas in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So if you had been trapped your while life in an open air prison camp. With limited food and water, electricity for just a few hours a day, and being bombed regularly, you would just sit back and accept that that was the way of the world?

Or would you fight back?

I don't think any of us can say how we would react if we were Palestinian, but my gut feeling is, that having watched women and children killed in bombings for two decades, we would probably say all bets are off and do exactly what Hamas have done

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

You are literally trying to justify the slaughter of Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists. Terrorists who use unguided rockets to kill Israelis (and often also Gazans) indiscriminately.

Hamas are not freedom fighters. They are genocidal terrorists who will not stop until they are eliminated or Israel ceases to exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It is or was not their land to begin with Hence the land was not stolen.

Before it was occupied by the Ottoman Empire. Then the area was a British protectorate. So when in the time frame of several centuries was there a Palestinian state or nation?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

The history is a little bit more complex