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Terry Hilldale's avatar

A retaliation to Iran's retaliation that by all all accounts was mostly ineffective anyway. Now we see why the Israel-Palestine conflict is so intractable. Same dynamic.

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JohnCitizen (Adam Saxe)'s avatar

The Iranians aren't Palestinian last time I checked. They joined--and escalated--a conflict that logically they have no business in. Not to be a smartass, but the conflict between the Jews and Arabs of what was once British Mandatory Palestine is tough enough without Persians joining in! It's not their war!

It's going to be all but impossible to reach any settlement between Israelis and Palestinians as long as outsiders like Iran sponsor radical, violent groups that openly--proudly--declare their opposition to any settlement between Israelis and Palestinians!

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Terry Hilldale's avatar

I never claimed that the Iranians are Palestinians, but you knew that. Retaliation begets retaliation which beget retaliation, and it never ends. so you get intractable conflicts like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict regardless of proxies. We see it again, with Republicans saying Israel should retaliate against Iran's (as some one else said) squirt gun retaliation against an Israeli attack which you say was retaliation for a an Iranian proxy attack. It is all wrong-headed and counter-productive. If Israel and (in the most current case) Hamas want a solution, they would find a solution. Strong factions on both sides take the most extreme interpretation of from the river to the sea (which by the way originally appeared in the 1972 Likud party platform.

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