There is either an official or de facto peace and cooperation between Israel and the various Arab states.Doc wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:06 amOf course they wanted a goldilocks attack on Israel that caused as little damage as possible They may be crazy but they aren't that crazy. Israel is now the partner of the Arabs. Iran ordered the Oct 7th attack because they wanted to prevent Saudi Arabia from signing the Abraham accords. Now Arab countries are defending Israel from Iranian drones and missiles.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:52 amDoc wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:49 amOr maybe they were afraid that Saddam was going to come looking for them after. When it was the US they didn't have any doubt about "after"Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:30 amDoc wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:27 amCCP controlled China is dead dude. Iran shot off 300 missiles at Israel. 3 of them got through the antimissile defenses. That sounds more like erectile dysfunction than "Handling things"Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:39 pm
YES .. True .. better late than never
It will be good for America and good for middle east .. Western backing for minor players distorted and perverted the progress of all ME.
Now let China and Pers*ans handle things.
Israel now must "rethink" the whole story .. not anymore America or Europe will be guarantor of a "Jewish State" , but Pers*a .. this not the first time .. Golden Age of Israel was when part of Pers*an Empire .. there no reason not again.
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Seems like Iran needs to give up the cigarettes
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Old habits difficult to get red of
Would you have been happy if 1000s of civilians had been killed ? ?
Iran conveyed the message without inflicting any casualty, Mull*hs should get a medal for this.
Our beloved Pers*ans value human life - Iranian F-4 loaded with twenty four 500-pound bombs to bomb Iraqi installations came back with ordnance not wanting to inflict civilian casualty.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUEwGUDwOxk
And they were singing "Bye bye, its American sky. Drove the F4s to the Gulf but we could not score."In 2013, two Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantoms moved to intercept an MQ-1 drone flying in international airspace near the Iranian border. The two IRIAF fighters were quickly shooed away by two F-22 Raptors who were flying in escort.
Except, they didn't just get a warning message, they were Maverick-ed. That's what I'm calling it now.
Not sure your read The American Conservative linked above, not sure
It is too fluid a situation to comment in detail, but, for what it’s worth, it appears that the Iranians wanted to keep the attack within that goldilocks threshold with ample warnings ahead.
They had backchannels open with the U.S.
They informed Iraq about the flight path and trajectory of their missiles.
The choice of weaponry—no one intent on waging war uses subsonic drones that take hours to reach the airspace of the enemy to start an air attack followed by a few ballistic missiles, thereby letting enemy air defenses go fully active—was another signal that Iranian actions were predicated on reestablishing deterrence, and not escalation.
2013 .. that was 11 yrs ago .. now Iran not Iran used 2B neither America .. On CNN , Biden said to Natanyahu , America does not want to get involved with Iran .. that closes the Israel Chapter
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What a disaster What a disaster.
For example, the Egyptian and Jordanian response to the current war in Gaza was to build border walls as they have no interest in hosting Gazans whom they rightly perceive as toxic to peace and stability.
The common enemy is Iran and its mad mullahs - the only mob still obsessed with the goal of destruction of Israel.
Well, aside from the useful idiots and usual anti-Semites in the West.