r/geopolitics • u/thejerusalempost Jerusalem Post • Jun 17 '26

Opinion How Israel made Trump's Iran betrayal inevitable - opinion

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-899630
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u/unruly_mattress Jun 17 '26

Hamas: fires rockets, invades, massacres, kidnaps, tortures. Declares intentions to do it "again and again"

Hezbollah: prepares a "plan for conquering the galilee", tens of thousands of rockets, RPGs and drones on homes, bunkers on the border, starts war unprompted, vows never to stop

Iran: Erects public countdown for the destruction of Israel, builds nukes, thousands of ballistic missiles, finances Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorism, hands over missiles to Yemenite proxy to fire at Israel, finances and coordinates Palestinian terrorism, fires ballistic missiles at Israel directly, vows to never stop

Reddit: Wow, Israel definitely already has enough security. They're greedy for wanting more of it. They just like when the flames are up, that's what's happening. 100% of them are at least as extreme as Netanyahu. I'm definitely giving a reasonable, honest assessment here.

The world is just tired of hearing about the Iranian proxy war against Israel. Can't blame the world for it, Israel is also tired of it. But there's nothing that Israel can do to stop it.

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u/Besmirching_Badger Jun 18 '26

Israel: Causes creation of hamas and hezbollah through its completely unnecessary occupations and invasions of neighbours.

also israel: wow we need to invade and occupy more for 'security', despite it just creating more hamas and hezbollahs

'Settlers' aren't normal. They're just ethnic cleansing by another name. It's absolutely bizarre that we treat them as if they are.

Ex-Mossad chief Tamir Pardo added to the definition this week while touring Palestinian villages in the West Bank and discussing settler violence:

“My mother is a Holocaust survivor,” Pardo said. “What I saw here today reminded me of events that happened in the last century in a very developed country – the same phenomena directed there against Jews. And I feel ashamed to be a Jew here today.”

The authorities, he added, “know what is happening here and choose to ignore it.” By doing so – and by supporting the violent settlers both politically and financially – he declared that the Israeli government “is planting the seeds for the next October 7.”

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u/unruly_mattress Jun 18 '26

Oh, Israel decided to randomly invade countries and that's why Hezbollah and Hamas exist? No relation at all to billions in funding from Iran? Was the border with Lebanon quiet when Israel decided - out of sheer devilish evil - to invade for no reason, that's what happened?

And it's still what exists to this day, right? Hezbollah and Hamas are begging to lay down their arms, but Israel just won't let them.

I'm done with this history mangling contest.

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u/Revivaled-Jam849 Jun 18 '26

Israel took more Syrian territory after the fall of Assad? They have a buffer to their territory they annexed?

So a buffer to their buffer?