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I suppose, in a way, you really have to hand it to them.
The Israelis, I mean.
When it comes to all things military, there is no nation on the face of the planet as astute, as innovative, as determined, and as ruthless as Israel. I guess living in a dangerous neighbourhood surrounded by enemies will do that to you.
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That ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is proof that, when serious and earnest minds make it essential to have something done to stop the misery, they can, in fact, stop the misery.
But make no mistake. Nothing like that has happened here. Not in this case.
Yes, there’s a “ceasefire,” or what they refer to as one, but honestly there’s been no “cease” to the “fire,” and that’s something that lay squarely at the feet of the Israelis.
Israel has emerged as the undisputed “victor’ in its campaign against Hamas in Gaza, pretty much levelling the place and breaking untold numbers of rules and conventions that are stated as being important to the international community, the same community that looks the other way as Israel launches as new offensive in Gaza in complete violation of the “agreed-to” ceasefire. Over the past 48 hours, over 90 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, many of whom were sheltering in “humanitarian” zones that were designated by Israel itself as “safe havens” for innocent “non-combatants.”
The use of italics and that many quotation marks is an indicator of how slippery the slope is here, and how one side’s interpretation of facts on the ground differs from another.
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Iran is in a predicament entirely of their own making, and sad for them — and good for us — everything they do from this point forward makes it worse and worse for them, and conversely, good for us.
That “good for us” thing I popped in there is a lengthy article all by itself, but for the purposes of this one, certain parts of the rationale behind that statement will be shared here.
I’ll spare you the history/current events lesson here because I simply want to get to the point I want to make this morning. That is that Iran, Islamic Republic of, is a paper tiger at best when it comes to military capability. And, as Iran is a key ally of Russia and its leader, Vladimir PotatoHead, this has a lot of meaning attached to it.
Iran doesn’t go up against other nations face-to-face militarily, not since the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980’s, a war that ended only after the mutual exhaustion of both parties involved. Instead, Iran funds proxy militias around the Middle East, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and the Houthis in Yemen (apologies to any other Islamic militias I may have missed) and uses these proxies to harass their enemies, primarily Israel, and until recently, Saudi Arabia. But Iran stays on the sidelines cheerleading the myriad atrocities performed on their behalf by these militias, playing a game of regional peekaboo that anyone with cognizance can see through. I suppose they feel it gives them some “plausible deniability” when it comes to the havoc caused by their hired guns who they keep fed with missile and rocket technology while Iran itself struggles with a quality of life that its citizens resent having to shoulder.
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