'More Unhinged by the Minute': Senior Israeli Lawmaker Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran
'More Unhinged by the Minute': Senior Israeli Lawmaker Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran
"It is not possible anymore to stop the Iranian nuclear program with conventional means," the hardline Knesset member and former Israeli defense minister said.
Whaaaaaaa???? But I thought Israel totally didn't have any nuclear weapons
Their policy is "nuclear ambiguity". That means that official, firm statements made by the government will neither confirm or deny that they have nuclear weapons.
Nothing suprising here, didn't Financial Minister Smotrich say that Gaza should be nuked months ago?
Trump's team is also saying the same. I can see it going like this:
Trump backed Israel nukes Gaza. Iran gets pissy about this and tries to nuke Israel. US immediately interferes and tries to nuke Iran in retaliation. Israel, if it still exists, also joins. This pisses off Russia who joins in the fight. China and North Korea follow. Taiwan, Ukraine, and South Korea get attacked. We all die.
Yup
Biden after Israel nukes Iran... "I am a Zionist. I will always be a Zionist"
Sadly, even taking about issues like this one outside of !worldnews@lemmy.world will get you called out for spreading "Republican propaganda" (as you can't make it seem that Biden and his allies want to expand the current war). I hate to sound like a doomer but bleak times (are most likely) ahead.
even taking about issues like this one outside of !worldnews will get you called out for spreading "Republican propaganda" (as you can't make it seem that Biden and his allies want to expand the current war)
You are constructing a counter factual universe here and trying to impose the weird viewpoint on everyone else by sheer repetition. Talking about Israel’s crimes, in this or pretty much any other place on Lemmy, is obviously fine. I dare you to find me even a single place where someone talks about Israel and someone else chimes in with “how dare you! You are making Biden look bad!” out of the blue, or anything else that is remotely like that interaction.
What people respond negatively to, I think, is a specific gang of accounts that tie every single story about anything somewhere in the world back to “And that’s why don’t vote for Biden!” when the pure logic of it (or of him being happy about Israel’s war let alone wanting it to expand) makes no sense at all.
This is the first time I noticed it: https://lemmy.world/comment/10803315 (since I replied I had an easy way yo find it again)
Talking about Israel’s crimes, in this or pretty much any other place on Lemmy, is obviously fine.
As long as you don't suggest for an instant that we stop being complicit. Then you're a tankie Republican Russian Chinese child shill bot.
It says it’s closed and last posts I see are from like 3 months ago that sub seems pretty dead, am I missing something here?
It was basically locked and merged into !world@lemmy.world
I don’t remember paying for that, was it in the fine print?
Is nuclear war winnable? I've been led to believe it is not: MAD.
Yes, everyone will die, but right-wing ideologues are not smart enough to look this far ahead.
Oh, it’s worse and weirder than that. More than a few hardcore evangelicals are excited by the prospect, because they think it’s going to be the literal biblical Rapture, and that they’ll be Saved.
That’s not a joke or a sarcastic comment. It’s completely serious.
We ignore the insanity of these theocratic fascists at our peril.
WWII was technically a nuclear war. So yes, a nuclear war is winnable, if only one side has nuclear weapons.
But anyway this guy is an idiot. A nuclear strike on Iran would still be stupid even when they don't have nuclear weapons (yet).
Those are supposed to be our secret nukes we shared as besties >:(
This guy's weird. He's been in coalition with Bibi, which is where he got defense minister, but he's also hated Bibi enough to be in coalition with the United Arab list. Mostly he seems to despise haredi enough to stay in opposition, and they are lynchpins to Bibi's current government.
Well a nuclear war would be one way to end the conflicts in that region. Therefore he isn't technically wrong in that it would stop the Iranian program. All that needs to happen is to convert 411 million men, women, and children into radioactive dust to make sure that there is finally peace. Also, it seems to be what the local population wants as far as I can tell, meaning it would be democracy in action. Don't worry if it happens, skydaddy will take care of them.
Did anyone read the article? Do you realize how many unhinged nutjobs say crazy shit in parliaments and US congress every day?
This is click bait. Nothing to do with Israeli policy
Let's not normalize it, it makes the news every time it happens.
anyway. did you know that theran is standing on soil that rather sooner than later will crumble and take the city down? climate change sped this up, but stupid "government" doesn care. large cracks around all of the city, sinkholes in theran. it is not worth bombing a country thats doomed already by nature. wait it out. good will happen.