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Merged Israel Attacks Iran /Yet Another Country/Iran

Lplus said:
Thanks for the info.

I can see the reason Saudi would need to deny participating in intercepting drones, but there's Intercepting and "intercepting" - the latter involving tracking and passing the information on - much easier to do covertly.

Religious sectarianism can make for some strange bedfellows.
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No problem.
Regarding the highlighted, I had been wondering if the Saudis were rubbing their hands with glee, at the thought of their two biggest enemies attacking each other. It now looks like, for whatever strategic reasons they may have, the Saudis have quietly concluded that it's better for them to be friends with Israel as a counter to Iran's influence, than the other way round.
 
Blinken has been in the Me middle east nonstop since October. Talk with the Saudis has probably been more productive than with the Israeli.
 
Cosmic Yak said:
No problem.
Regarding the highlighted, I had been wondering if the Saudis were rubbing their hands with glee, at the thought of their two biggest enemies attacking each other. It now looks like, for whatever strategic reasons they may have, the Saudis have quietly concluded that it's better for them to be friends with Israel as a counter to Iran's influence, than the other way round.
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Very interesting, Cosmic Yak!
 
Cosmic Yak said:
No problem.
Regarding the highlighted, I had been wondering if the Saudis were rubbing their hands with glee, at the thought of their two biggest enemies attacking each other. It now looks like, for whatever strategic reasons they may have, the Saudis have quietly concluded that it's better for them to be friends with Israel as a counter to Iran's influence, than the other way round.
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Strategic is the word. Israel will never be a strategic threat to Saudi inffluence in the gulf, Iran is the epitome of a strategic threat to Saudi in the gulf.
 
I wonder what would have happened if by chance some of the significant missiles reached civilian targets in Israel and killed large numbers. Is Iran extremely lucky they didn't?
 
Lplus said:
I wonder what would have happened if by chance some of the significant missiles reached civilian targets in Israel and killed large numbers. Is Iran extremely lucky they didn't?
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We would see the ususal suspects here say Israel had it coming...
 
Lplus said:
I wonder what would have happened if by chance some of the significant missiles reached civilian targets in Israel and killed large numbers. Is Iran extremely lucky they didn't?
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If by blind luck some missiles did do significant damage and killed a bunch of Israelis, no doubt Israel would have launched a massive counter-attack by now.
 
Hercules56 said:
If by blind luck some missiles did do significant damage and killed a bunch of Israelis, no doubt Israel would have launched a massive counter-attack by now.
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Which would be entirely appropriate. A mass missile raid on Israel's civilian populace is a blatant act of terrorism. It is in no way an appropriate or proportional response to losing one of their generals in one of their consulates in the territory of one of their allies. It's a massive escalation. Even as an empty gesture, it's unconscionable.

Israel has every right to respond to Iran's obscene attack with an escalation of their own, at a time and place of their choosing.
 
theprestige said:
Which would be entirely appropriate. A mass missile raid on Israel's civilian populace is a blatant act of terrorism. It is in no way an appropriate or proportional response to losing one of their generals in one of their consulates in the territory of one of their allies. It's a massive escalation. Even as an empty gesture, it's unconscionable.

Israel has every right to respond to Iran's obscene attack with an escalation of their own, at a time and place of their choosing.
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In the "court" of international public opinion, a massive retaliation by Israel would've been more acceptable had their been images of mass civilian casualties.
 
Iorny is that I don't think really cares that much about Palestinains, they use them are pawns in what they are really after: Total domination of the Mid East Region. The old Persian empire redux.
 
theprestige said:
Which would be entirely appropriate. A mass missile raid on Israel's civilian populace is a blatant act of terrorism.
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To play devil's advocate here, I'm not sure what the targets for Iran's missiles and drones were. It's possible they weren't aimed at civilian targets, which would make it an act of war, and an escalation, but not really terrorism.

Israel has every right to respond to Iran's obscene attack with an escalation of their own, at a time and place of their choosing.
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That's true either way.
 
Hercules56 said:
By that standard, the Israeli war on Gaza is a massive act of terrorism.
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I disagree, but that side of the question has been debated at length in other threads.

What I'm interested in here is your answer to this side of the question. By what logic do you hold that the Israeli war on Gaza is a massive act of terrorism, but the Iranian mass missile raid on Israel is not?
 
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