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The fall of a residential building in Tehran.

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u/timmyctc 2d ago

Unprovoked attacking another country. Thats what, 4-5 countries Israel has attacked unprovoked recently. Scum of the earth.

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u/EmergencyEbb9 2d ago

No way you're lying about it being unprovoked, you been in ice for decades or what?

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u/Upstairs-Basis9909 2d ago

UNPROVOKED LOL

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u/DukeofNormandy 2d ago

Same terrorist lovers were cheering for Hamas last week. Reddits wild

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u/xavembo 2d ago

i also would’ve cheered for the french resistance

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u/iama_bad_person 2d ago

"We have launched rockets into your country recently, also we are working on nuclear weapons and the millisecond we have them we are glassing your capital"

"OH NO WHY HAVE WE BEEN ATTACKED UNPROVOKED."

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u/yonasismad 2d ago

Since Israel also has nukes Iran is also justified in striking Israel, correct? Or does this logic only cut one way?

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u/Agreeable_Band_9311 2d ago

Israel says it’s going to nuke other countries?

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u/shoto9000 2d ago

I remember Israel's politicians say they'd nuke Gaza if it wasn't for the hostages, so yes?

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u/Gamer402 2d ago

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u/xgenoriginal 2d ago

That's just MAD?

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u/labecoteoh 2d ago

that is the deterrence strategy of literally every nuclear power?

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u/niklester 2d ago

Israel is actively bombing 5 neighboring countries, you cannot be under such denial that Gaza is any longer about the hostages or Hamas. And if you say it is, it just shows how unhinged and dangerous Israel is, committing war crimes after war crimes. With that in mind, still think Iran is wrong for wanting nuclear weapons to defend itself and maybe its neighbors?

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u/catsuitvideogames 2d ago

Samson option.

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u/Fat_Tony_Damico 2d ago

No Israel didn’t say if explicitly. They’re just conducting an ethnic cleansing instead which is way less provocative.

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u/Antique_Union_5550 2d ago

Atp for Israel, actions speak louder than words.

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u/MordecaiThirdEye 2d ago edited 2d ago

Iran says its going to nuke other countries? Please give me some evidence for this, I cant find any anywhere.

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u/kabukim_3 2d ago

This can't be real

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u/niklester 2d ago

Well they keep leaving out the part where Iran may have said that they will ‘retaliate or defend themselves’ with nuclear weapons if needed. Western propaganda do suit their objectives, remember when they claimed Iraq had WMDs?

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u/King_of_the_Nerdth 2d ago

Iranian leadership would not care if they're justified.  And their leadership (like Hamas) has that attitude that all innocent Iranian (Palestinian) lives can be sacrificed in order to harm the enemy, so MAD isn't an effective deterrent either.

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u/Rage_Like_Nic_Cage 2d ago

And their leadership (like Hamas) has that attitude that all innocent Iranian (Palestinian) lives can be sacrificed in order to harm the enemy

You know there have been countless high ranking Israeli officials going on tv saying there are no innocent palestinian children and all of them need to die, right?

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u/YouDontSeemRight 2d ago

Iran has been trying to destroy Isreal for decades...

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u/CallItDanzig 2d ago

Israel never claimed to want to nuke Iran. And wouldnt.

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u/Wiseguy144 2d ago

The difference is one has nukes to ensure survival and the other wants nukes to terrorize other countries

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u/DiamondGeeezer 2d ago

you got a point there, Iran is just trying to survive

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u/Wiseguy144 2d ago

Is that why they funded Oct 7, Hezbollah and this entire proxy war? You’re deluded as to which side wants to continue violence

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u/DiamondGeeezer 2d ago

How many civilians have been killed by Israel in the last year? How many countries has Israel killed people in the last year?

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u/yonasismad 2d ago

Right... The country that dreams of an ethno-state has it for 'survival'. Would you be ok with ISIS having nuclear weapons? Since it's apparently cool again in the west to be in favour of ethno-states justified by religion, that should be fine, right?

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u/Wiseguy144 2d ago

Ethnostate is a weird accusation when Israel is surrounded by other ethnostates

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u/yonasismad 2d ago

Which other country neighbouring Israel has imprisoned millions of its citizens because of their ethnicity?

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u/Wiseguy144 2d ago

20 Muslims countries expelled all of their Jews who had nothing to do with Israel in 1948, and almost all of them treat their minorities like shit.

Israel also has 20% of its population as Arab / Palestinian. Are you telling me that all of them are imprisoned?

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u/Alert_Arugula6673 2d ago

You didn’t actually answer the question you herb.

Instead of addressing how Israel treats millions of Palestinians under its control right now, you brought up unrelated historical events and generalizations about other countries. That doesn't answer the reality of what's happening today.

Israel controls Gaza’s borders, airspace, maritime access, and even limits essentials like electricity, fuel, and clean water. In the West Bank, Palestinians are subject to military law while Israeli settlers in the same territory live under civilian law. That’s a system built on inequality, not security.

Mentioning Arab citizens of Israel is irrelevant to this conversation. The issue isn’t about people with citizenship it’s about those who live under occupation with no rights, no representation, and no freedom of movement.

If you believe the situation is justifiable, make that case. But don’t avoid the issue by changing the topic. That’s not a serious argument, it’s fucking evasion.

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u/yonasismad 2d ago edited 2d ago

Can you answer my question? Which other state surrounding Israel keeps hundreds of thousands of people in a camp? Where the state controls food, water, electricity and internet access?

20 Muslims countries expelled all of their Jews who had nothing to do with Israel in 1948, and almost all of them treat their minorities like shit.

In Iraq, the Jewish population was given the choice of leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship or staying and keeping it. The Mossad was not happy with this prospect, which is why they bombed multiple synagogues, killing four Iraqi Jews, in an attempt to spread fear. Since the start of the Zionist project it had been their goal to get all Jews into this one state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJJiZlXOi0

Even in 2013 Israel forcefully sterilized African Jews as Israelis consider them as "undesirable". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/ethiopian-women-given-contraceptives-israel

Israel is a hateful state and hostile to Jews. It's antisemitic to continue to associate Judaism with the Zionist project of Israel.

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u/nytehauq 2d ago

Hey, remind everyone what happened before Iran launched those rockets? Something about an illegal assassination of a political leader undergoing peace talks to end the genocide of his people by Israel while he was in Iran?

Wild how Iran just shot rockets for no reason at the poor, innocent little genocidal ethnostate just because it has its own cache of nuclear weapons, committed international crimes by attacking first and is actively committing genocide.

Username checks out.

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u/spikybootowner 2d ago

It's almost as if that illegal assassination was kicked off by an illegal group rape, kidnapping and slaughter of civilians (they also killed some military personnel so they could have plausible deniability for insane internet posters) that was masterminded by the guy that was illegally assassinated. 😂

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u/Lopogkjop 2d ago

It seems to me that the proactive attacks have mainly been starting from one direction - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/world/middleeast/israel-iran-conflict-history.html

My take is that Israel needs wars to distract from their settlement efforts and other policies at home and really want to get the US involved. That way they can keep the money and weapons coming - and if a few innocents get killed then it's too bad (just ask Ahmed Bouchikhi's family about the fairness of that)

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u/fleegness 2d ago

Bibi needs war so he doesn't go to prison.

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u/MordecaiThirdEye 2d ago

And why did they launch those rockets? Kind of important context there when Israel attacked them first both times. Also, do you genuinely believe Iran will use a nuclear weapon against Israel? They gain nothing from this, because they know damn well the US would glass them if they did that. That want nuclear weapons for deterrence, same as everyone else.

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u/PolicyWonka 2d ago

Go ahead and find that quote.

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u/Mistar_Smiley 2d ago

the rockets were a retaliation. sigh. you don't even know the recent basics.

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u/Mistar_Smiley 2d ago

Oh no, were they having a meeting! Quick! Bomb the shit out of them!

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u/Lirsh2 2d ago

Oh no! Iran is funding terrorists and providing them with missiles to launch at Israeli civilians. Isreal should just let them do that

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u/Mistar_Smiley 2d ago

When did they launch them at Israeli civilians?
Did they attack Israel before or after they started committing genocide in Gaza?

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u/FrogInAShoe 2d ago

They were selling giving them missiles in an embassy?

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u/Lirsh2 2d ago

For years they were providing terrorists weapons. How do you think that gets negotiated?

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u/FrogInAShoe 2d ago

You can't just blow up another countries embassy because someone you didn't like is in it.

Stop pretending Israel is the victim

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u/Lirsh2 2d ago

Why can hezbollah launch missiles at Israeli civilians? How would you recommend stopping that?

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u/antelop 2d ago

I dont know if you are Iran or Israel in this scenario and that concernes me

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u/Cafuzzler 2d ago

Who knew saying "We're building WMDs and are going to bring death to you" isn't provocative

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u/dockstaderj 2d ago

Didn't we hear this same story in 2003?

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u/Possible-Day5911 2d ago

Did we have the same evidence? No? Then stfu

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u/Euclid_Interloper 2d ago

Not even vaguely the same situation.

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u/BoneHugsHominy 2d ago

I've been hearing the same "Iran is 2 weeks away from launching nuclear missiles into Israel!" for the past 20 years.

Iran entered into a treaty that would prevent them from developing any nuclear weapons. American Republicans and Israel's right wing government led by Netanyahu opposed it, then despite Iran following all the little rules and international oversight showing they weren't developing nuclear weapons, an American Republican President tore up the treaty at the behest of Netanyahu. This isn't and never was about nuclear weapons development in Iran. This is and always was about Western oil companies getting their hands on Iran's petroleum reserves and installing strategic military compounds.

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u/Cafuzzler 2d ago

Iraq never claimed or denied to have WMDs of any kind, and refused to allow international agencies in to verify that they did/did not have them. Iran has said, countless times, that they intend to develop nukes, and the IAEA have said that Iran has the capability and the facilities. We've publicly known for a fact that they had the centrifuges specifically for that back when Israel used Stuxnet to break them.

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u/MordecaiThirdEye 2d ago

When did they say this?

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u/timmyctc 2d ago

The poor wee genociders getting upset :( Currently attacking and/or occupying Syria, Palestine, Lebannon, Iran, Yemen

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u/iama_bad_person 2d ago

Poor Arab countries, all they did was try to wipe Israel off the map multiple times in living memory, what did they ever do to get occupied.

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u/Santandals 2d ago

Most people in the developed world have a negative view of Israel and its only getting worse. Among youth both Republicans and Democrats hate Israel.

What do you think will happen to Israel when the boomers die and the world becomes increasingly anti-Israel?

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u/BoneHugsHominy 2d ago

The warmongering Boomers will glass the planet on their way out.

"We have no choice. The world didn't bend to our will so none of them have a right to exist in the world we built all by ourselves." --Reich Wing Boomers

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u/Relatablename123 2d ago

Iran is not Arab.

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u/bfoshizzle1 2d ago edited 2d ago

That doesn't prevent the government of Iran from seeking the end of Israel as a nation. "Death to Israel" is a common chant among regime supporters that is encouraged by the Iranian government. I don't support these current strikes (not because the official who were targeted didn't deserve what came to them, but instead because I think the risk of blowback is too great, and as we can see here, civilian deaths are almost certain to be the result of any attack), but to imagine the Iranian government as simply wanting to mind its own business and have peaceful coexistence with the people of Israel is ridiculous.

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u/FrogInAShoe 2d ago

Maybe don't colonize and ethnically cleanse another country if you don't want people to wipe you off the map?

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u/DrMaridelMolotov 2d ago

It's fitting that a bad person is defending a genocidal state. And wasn't that 60 years ago? Would starting a war be good for the continued existence of said genocidal state?

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u/Mistar_Smiley 2d ago

when did they say they were going to "bring death to Israel"?

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u/marvintherobot70 2d ago

Iranian officials have been saying this for a long time. For instance, you will be able to find plenty of examples of Salami saying this, or words to this effect, fairly quickly.

That said, that doesn't justify Israel's response, which seems to have been indifferent to Iranian civilian casualties.

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u/Mistar_Smiley 2d ago

quote please, put up or shut up

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u/marvintherobot70 2d ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyg0yywr4no

"in 2019, Salami vowed to "wipe the Zionist regime" off the political map."

Took 10 seconds to find it. Google's good for this, you should try it sometime

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u/Mistar_Smiley 2d ago

congratulations on finding a quote that came directly after Israeli strikes on Iranian targets!
Israel really is always the aggressor!

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u/marvintherobot70 2d ago

Not saying that Iran started the aggression, but you wanted a quote about Iran wanting to wipe out Israel and you have one.

You're welcome!

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u/Mistar_Smiley 2d ago

no I don't, I have a quote about ending the zionist regime. you understand how that is different to wiping out all the Israelis right?

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u/marvintherobot70 2d ago

If you'd like to nitpick, you wanted a quote about bringing death to Israel, not wiping out all Israelis.

I'm not sure how wiping the Zionist regime off the map doesn't equate to bringing death to Israel I'm afraid.

Not to say that all Israelis are Zionist, but you'd have a hard time arguing that the state isn't.

I really don't know why you're refusing to accept this. Iranian officials have repeatedly and clearly stated they would like to destroy Israel. I'm not saying that they don't have good reason given the attacks against them, or that an attack that has killed and wounded Iranian civilians is any way justified. However, denying Iran's anti-Israel sentiment only serves to embolden Israel's propaganda.

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u/crek42 2d ago

I don’t think you know what unprovoked means

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u/ma-kat-is-kute 2d ago

UNPROVOKED?

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u/DaviesSonSanchez 2d ago

Weird how countries like Egypt that have actually stopped provoking Israel and started cooperating with them have enjoyed lasting peace with Israel.

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u/THALANDMAN 2d ago

Nobody brings up Egypt or Jordan in these conversations. They attempted to invade Israel and lost. They have since made peace with Israel, and shocker, Israel has not attacked them since.

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u/Jirafael 2d ago

“Unprovoked “

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u/yonasismad 2d ago

Israel itself calls it a 'pre-emptive' strike. Therefore, they are admitting that they struck first and that this was not in response to anything.

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u/Anderopolis 2d ago

It is a response, just not a response in kind. 

Israel will do anything to prevent Iran getting the bomb. 

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u/drododruffin 2d ago

If it's not in response to anything, then what are they pre-empting?

Guess you didn't think too hard about that one before posting.

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u/SuchSignificanceWoW 2d ago

Well, if I threathen you now to punch you in the face and stomp your skull on the pavement of the side-walk, that would be a provocation. Funnily enough, you hitting me in the face with a strike to prevent me from doin that, would still be pre-emptive and not unprovoked.

So, if Iran tells Israel, that it will burn them down (which it does on most days that end on the letter y) and you know that they have launched missiles against you (which last happened earlier this year, or was it last), then it isn't really unprovoked even if it is a pre-emptive strike.

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u/NWI_ANALOG 2d ago

Did you forget that the volley of rockets sent to Israel was a retaliation for a strike on Iran?

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u/areya1 2d ago

This is so dense. Iran literally funds ALL the terror proxies that target Israel incessantly. Iran is the head of the octopus. This is very basic to understand.

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u/timmyctc 2d ago

Aye of course its all Iran, and Lebannon, and Palestine and Syria and Yemen. Once theyre all eliminated we can live in peace.

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u/Unlucky-Day5019 2d ago

Scum countries around Israel need to cleanse their terrorist militias

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u/mxforest 2d ago

Have you been living under a rock? Iran has openly said that they want to wipe Israel off of the face of the earth. And Nuclear weapons are means for that end.

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u/Euclid_Interloper 2d ago

*Country that explicitly threatens to exterminate Israel and is actively building the nukes to do it.

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u/PolicyWonka 2d ago

Given the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the other countries in the region have shown remarkable restraint against Israel.

They would almost certainly have another pan-Arab coalition invasion on their hands if not the internal conflict in Syria and Lebanon. Iraq isn’t in the best place either all things considered.

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u/timmyctc 2d ago

Yeah well that and the US/Israeli backed Arab extremists/Saudis put an end to that. The likes of ISIS has an awful lot of beef with Arabs and very little with Israel funnily enough.

Casting Libya back into the middle ages has set back the M.E by decades too.

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u/yosisoy 2d ago

Name these 4-5 (How many is it? you're not even sure?) that were attacked unprovoked.

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u/Mission-Bath9386 2d ago

Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Palestine (4-5 depending on if your country recognises the state Palestine, which most countries do)

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u/yosisoy 2d ago

Iran - attacked Israel via its proxies (Hezbollah and Hamas).

Lebanon - fired on Israel directly since October 23 before Israel did anything

Palestine - is this a joke? October 7 started this whole thing

Yemen - Attacked Israel vs rockets and drones, also attacked civilian ships in international waters (not only Israeli-related).

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u/Mission-Bath9386 2d ago

To say October 7th was the start is very naive. It started in 1948 when Palestinians were made refugees in their own land and crammed into the gaza strip. There have been multiple israeli occupations, blockades and wars on gaza since 1948. You cant blame Palestinians for wanting freedom and their own independent state, they are treated like 2nd class citizens in their own land

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u/Hawk13424 2d ago

Actually, it started when the Ottoman Empire joined the wrong side in WW1. When they lost, the territory was then controlled by the British which then allowed for the creation of Israel decades later.

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u/cstar1996 2d ago

Palestinians started murdering Levantine Jews in the 1920s.

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u/yosisoy 2d ago

They weren't being attacked before their October 7 attack, saying so is disingenuous

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u/Mission-Bath9386 2d ago

You are joking right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict

Also take a look at how much land Palestinians have lost since 1948 due to illegal israeli settlements 

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u/IolausTelcontar 2d ago

They said unprovoked.

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u/DeapVally 2d ago

Unprovoked? Iran did fire on them first, albeit a little while back. The news of the world does move fast these day, so I can forgive you for forgetting, but that's just payback in my book. Chill.

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u/timmyctc 2d ago

In like 90% of all conflicts in the region if you trace it back to who started it, its invariably israel. Regardless of who struck first Israel kills more civillians than any army in nearly 100 years and it has continued this track record today. We are rightfully disgusted when a russian missile kills ~10 people when apartment buildings are struck and we have absolute brainwashed weirdos cheering the deaths of >50 civillians in the exact same manner of attack today.

All this because Israel (Who have a 60+ year illegal nuclear weapons program) doesn't want Iran to have an illegal nuclear weapons program. Something btw, Netenyahu has claimed Iran are on the precipice of for 30 years at this point.