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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
That's always the case: a few baddies can murder 1200 innocent Israelis (except you regard those Israelis as part of a 'terrorist state); the Hamas, are cheered on by nearly every Moslem in the UK and, no doubt in Gaza. Israel retaliates - and how do you do this without collateral damage?
This would be solved if Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran changed their stance on Israel, as did the UAE, Egypt, Jordan et al.
And then there is the exported terrorism in Manchester and Golders Green.
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There’s a wild difference between collateral damage and the mass destruction of the homes of 2 million people.
Iran has come to their rescue by exposing the weaknesses of the American/Israeli alliance. No more can the gulf oil states rely on the global policeman to guarantee their security. Nor can they guarantee traffic through the Strait of Hormuz as a key artery for the global economy.
Iranian target practice has probably gave the Russians and Chinese incredible insight into weaknesses in state of the art American military technology. And the world is a far less safe place place for it.
The terrorism on our own doorstep is indeed alarming, which is why we shouldn’t bind our foreign policy to the bloodlust of Benjamin Netanyahu. The best case scenario is he loses the election and someone more moderate takes his place.