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[News] Middle East conflict
- Thread starter Greenbag50
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Foreign fighters in the Russo-Ukrainian War - Wikipedia
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I might be missing it but I don't see any mention of South Americans
- Oct 20, 2022
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Thanks @Bozza
And a sensible but worrying change of thread title.
It is inevitable that Iran will respond on some kind to Israel’s proposed invasion of Lebanon.
Last time Iran retaliated - Israel had at least 10 minutes warning because the first wave was drones and it was military installations only that were targeted. It is not certain what the targets will be in response to the killing of the Hezbollah leader and incursion of Lebanon in the past day.
If Hezbollah decide to launch the 1000’s of missiles they have buried along the Lebanese border and the Houthis join in, even without a ballistic missiles from Iran, Israel could sustain damage to residential areas.
Then we are caught up in a cycle of retaliation.
Netanyahu has announced today that Israel is at war with the ‘Iran’s axis of evil’ - there is no doubt now that he sees Israel as engaging in a wider ME conflict and will be relying on the US and allied Countries, including the UK to defend her.
Hostages forgotten?
Israel will do what Israel wants and it is obvious now to all international observers that the US and the rest of the international community has been powerless observers in an agenda driven by the political ambitions of one extremist Zionist leader in a far right government.
Netanyahu has had the defeat of Iran on his political radar for decades he built his political career on it - his agenda to provoke a war with Iran is slowly unfolding
. Trump tearing up the Nuclear Deal ( which provide a process to inspect Iran’s Nuclear programme ) and - the 7/10 massacre - has given him his casus belli.
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Other reports I've seen of Venezuelans and Nicaraguans
"A report was received a short time ago regarding a shooting incident in Tel Aviv.
There are multiple casualties, according to the police spokesperson unit there.
The initial suspicion of motive is terror, they add."
There are multiple casualties, according to the police spokesperson unit there.
The initial suspicion of motive is terror, they add."
A short while ago, missiles were launched from Iran towards Israel, the Israeli military says in a statement.
It adds that sirens have sounded all across Israel.
It adds that sirens have sounded all across Israel.
BBC News 24 incredible viewing with the Iron Dome lighting up the Tel Aviv night sky.
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
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Brink? It’s been going on for years already.
portlock seagull
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Your use of the word ‘slaughtered’ indicates bias. Why not “killed” out of interest?
- Oct 20, 2022
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Then he called it wrong. Hezbollah are not going to fold and Iran won’t watch from the sidelines - Israel’s actions since October have pushed Hezbollah to an all out war.
I am really not condoning any retaliation from Hezbollah or Iran but in recent months, Israel has all but destroyed Gaza, killing 10s of 1,000s of civilians, destroying mosques, schools, hospitals and refugee camps and 70% of the infrastructure. They have fired 8 times more rockets into Lebanon than Hezbollah, caused 3,000 injuries with the booby trapped pagers, killed the leader of Hamas, leader of Hezbollah and targeted top military Iranian leader in Damascus - all of which might seem like a victory to Israel - unless Hezbollah and Iran retaliate with force.
I suggested this possible scenario nearly a year ago on this thread - it is all very predictable where this is going.
portlock seagull
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There are 10K people with British passports. I’m confident most speak English as a second language. It’s dead easy to get a British passport. Half the world has one. To be truly British these days, or any nationality for that matter, you probably only have one option as to your nationality. One of my mates has 4 different passport nationalities. And no, he’s not a criminal, but he does move around the world like I do the M25!
armchairclubber
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What a strange question. Children and babies are normally held dear and protected.
If 17k children were killed by bombs in this country (UK) would you not feel like expressing some disgust?
vegster
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They have to do something or they are a laughing stock. Huge kudos amongst the angry anti Israeli groups around the middle East if Iran can land a punch or two.
As with basically the entirety of the last 50 years, it’s all tit-for-tat back-and-forth where Israel does something, so Iran has to be seen to do something to avoid “losing face”, so Israel has to do something, so Iran has to do something and so on and so forth.
A lot of those with British passports are likely to be the children of those who fled during the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990). A mate at uni was one such child. He was born in England in 1983 and English was very much his first language. To suggest that people who have been in the country 40-odd years, possibly born in the UK, aren't really British is a bit misguided.
WW3. They want to pull in Russia and China and change the proxy war into a full on war. When religion is involved, the Iranian perpetrators care not for this life, they will be rewarded in paradise for their actions against Israel should they perish in what is surely a full blown war between Iran and Israel.
armchairclubber
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What do you think?