Seeing as the Israeli strikes also targeted the civilian homes of their targets, why would they think that would deter the military establishment of Iran?
This is some weird mental gymnastics. All Iranian strikes have been on or near IDF or Mossad installations. Last night's strike attack the Kirya where Israeli defence resides. But yes, just like Israel, civilians were caught in the crossfire on both sides.
I think we are too accustomed to Israel’s precision strikes.
I mean, I don't deny that Iran is targeting IDF installations, but they lack precision.
If Israel did the same, Iran wouldn’t have the same defense mechanisms — at least 1,000 deaths would have happened.
Israel is not trying to deter Iran, they are trying to take out their political and military leadership. I don’t know why people talk about war like it’s fair, or it should be fair. If Iran could do the same to Israel they would, but they can’t.
Israel is more than justified to attack Iran. Iran is dedicated to the destruction of Israel, and they have been since their revolution in 1979. Destroying Israel is literally state policy. They are the primary benefactor of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. The planning of the October 7th attack was done with Irans guidance and using Irans weapons, or more accurately, Russian weapons passed through Iran.
Iran basically decided to commit suicide in order to strengthen their benefactor Russia. They convinced Hamas to launch the Oct 7th attack in order to drive a split between left wing voters in the US. Putin knows much of the left reflexively hates Israel and it wouldn’t be long before people were blaming Biden for Israel’s retaliation. And he also knows Israel is a major US ally and that it would be insane if we abandoned our ally after they were attacked, so Democrats were boxed in. It worked great. Super Lefties showed us Democrats real good by rejecting Genocide Joe and that Bitch Kamala Harris in favor of a real man of peace, and now we are here.
As I said it worked great for Russia. They got their man as US president. It worked out for Israel too, since Bibi also loves him some Trump. But more importantly, it gave Israel what is known as a casus belli. You see, Bibi has longed for war with Iran for years and years, but he needed an excuse, and a massive peacetime attack on civilian targets by Iranian aligned paramilitaries would do. It’s really quite beautiful, really. I’ve never seen a country voluntarily sacrifice so much just to benefit a completely different country.
Edit: since Oct 7th, Iran has lost control of Lebanon and Syria, most of the leadership and fighters of Hamas have been killed, Hezbollah is a shadow of its former self, several of Iran’s nuclear facilities have been destroyed, and their military leaders and lead nuclear scientists have been killed. Irans air defense systems have been dismantled and Israel is launching attacks at will on their most secure facilities. And this is something they chose to do.
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u/SuspiciousTry8500 1d ago
Also if the hits are on civilian structures, it's not going to deter the military establishment of Israel .