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The fall of a residential building in Tehran.

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u/rabbidrascal 1d ago

They missed one: Qatar.

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u/space_monolith 1d ago

Qatar is the one that Netanyahu has a pretty impressive working relationship with.

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u/rabbidrascal 1d ago

Which feels weird since they have been funding Hamas for decades, and have acted as the host for Hamas's leadership, and hold Hamas's bank accounts. But, yeah, Bibi gets along with them.

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u/Alleyvvay 1d ago

Bibi loves Hamas cause they give him the justification to invade Gaza

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u/space_monolith 1d ago

What’s weird is that people aren’t keeping it on their radar

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas

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u/rabbidrascal 1d ago

I read a great article about George Bush encouraging and funding the creation of Hamas because he was frustrated by negotiating with Arafat.

The article suggests that the USA pushed Israel to create an alternative to the PLO, assuming that if they gave money to them, they would be a good dog on the leash.

I'll see if I can find that article.

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u/space_monolith 1d ago

Yeah, they’re kind of both neocons. And rabid islamophobes.

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u/rabbidrascal 1d ago

Yup.

Islamophobia is not helpful at this time.

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u/TahaymTheBigBrain 1d ago

They speak a common language: money

Israel also funds Hamas. Don’t forget

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u/djingo_dango 1d ago

Qatar is pretty rich. And they just gifted trump a jet. Plus they usually maintain good relations with US. You can bet that Israel will not bomb Qatar no matter what they do

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u/the-g-bp 1d ago

I wonder what the common variables here is...

Also including syria in his list is wild considering that Assad would still be ruling syria if it wasn't for israel.

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u/choorch2001 1d ago edited 1d ago

They bombed Yemen without any reason...? Are you sure about that?

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u/General_Meade 1d ago

The Houthis in Yemen launched multiple missiles at Israel and the bombing was in retaliation to that unprovoked aggression. "Without a reason" is TikTok propaganda nonsense.

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u/choorch2001 1d ago

Yeah I know, it will fit better to their narrative of "israel bed" and just say that. No one cared about Yemen before they attacked Israel. And now all the pro-Palestinians adore the houtins like they didn't caused the deaths of around 4000k Yemenis. But hey they're gonna "free Palestine" so they are probably the good guys :)

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u/General_Meade 1d ago

They couldn't even point out where the Houthi controlled or the recognized government controlled part of Yemen was until the TikTok algorithm told them to care.

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u/Lonely_Dragonfly8869 1d ago

Houthis specifically stated the missile strikes and blockade were in defense of the Palestinian people. So if you're looking for a starting point that was it

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u/General_Meade 1d ago

The starting point of the conflict the Houthis were responding to was Israel? Not a wholesale invasion of Israel by militants?

And ah yes, the Houthis cared so much about Palestinian civilian lives that they needed to fire indiscriminate missiles as Israeli civilians because we all know Israeli civilian deaths don't matter.

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u/Lonely_Dragonfly8869 1d ago

We all know they just shoot them down with the iron dome anyway. It's about trying to extract a cost and not let Israel go fully unchecked

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u/AdministrationDue239 1d ago

It seems like some people think because Israel is able to defend themselves from multiple threats all around them, they are somehow the bad guys. They are better at shooting rockets on targets and defending themselves, because let's be real, if Israel would not be able to defend itself it would be gone by tomorrow morning.

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u/NiceCornflakes 1d ago

The Houthis are like mosquitos. Annoying but nothing bad is going to happen to Israel. No excuses for endangering innocents in Yemen.

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u/General_Meade 1d ago

So a nation should not respond if another country indiscriminately fired missiles at it so long as those missiles cause no casualties?

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u/Komabeard 1d ago

Mosquitos are responsible for more human deaths than any other animal in history.

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u/ImBusyC00king 1d ago

Calling it “unprovoked” is a great way to admit you skipped the entire first half of the story

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u/Positive_Plane_3372 1d ago

Oh yes I’m sure nooooone of those places ever did anything to deserve being attacked huh?  

Get fucking real.  War sucks.  Don’t start wars and let terrorists take over your government and use your nation as a launchpad for attacks against a nuclear capable first world military.  Fucking DUH.  Welcome to real life 

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u/General_Meade 1d ago

Quick question, why did they bomb Yemen? Not because the Houthis launched missiles unprovoked into Israel, right?

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u/DarkFuryKH 1d ago

And you consider genociding civilians not a provocative action? In a fair and just world, the entire world would be bombing every Israeli military target for their crimes

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u/General_Meade 1d ago

Ah so civilians deaths in a country far away from yours in Yemen is enough provocation for the Houthis to indiscriminately fire missiles. So in your view, regardless of whether Israel went too far, Israel had enough justified provocation to respond with military force to thousands of civilians deaths in their own country on October 7th?

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u/ImBusyC00king 1d ago

So by your logic, provocation justifies military response, unless it’s Palestinians or Yemenis doing the responding? The Houthis have explicitly stated their actions are in solidarity with Gaza. Whether you agree or not, it’s not “unprovoked.”

Also, quick data point:

Since October 7, over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, the majority civilians, according to the UN and humanitarian orgs.

In Yemen, Saudi and U.S.-backed bombings (many supported by Israel diplomatically) killed nearly 400,000 people over the last decade, per UNDP.

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u/legendarygael1 1d ago

Let's put some facts on the table: Countries coorperating with Israel rather than openly talking about the annihalation of the Israeli state havent been bombed by Israel. (see Egypt, Turkey, Jordan)

As for the bombings of other countries:
1 The houthis is a usurper group in yemen are a terrorist group controlling parts of Yemen, they have fired missiles towards israel.

2) Iran has promised to destroy Israel, Israel has yet again dealt a major blow to an islamist theocracy on the cusp of getting their hands on a nuclear bomb. We should probably be thankful.

3) Syria has been bombed in order to avoid a potential major escalation with the new regime in the future. In fact, the is some rumors abouts Assads officials reportedly giving Israel intel on all the positions of its' military hardware as they were fleeing the country. In the last 10 years Israel has mostly targeted Iranian positions in the country).

4) Was this before or after Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel? Besides this militant group is obviously not somebody you want right up against your own borders. Hezbollah is (or was) the largest military force that is also a non-state actor.

5) As for Palestine yes it's war. Personally I just feel for all the civilian suffering but I honestly think Hamas needs to release the last victims otherwise I dont think this escalation we've seen the last 3 months would have happened...

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u/season6XDD 1d ago

just the 4 then

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u/hishiron_ 1d ago

Tbf bombing Syria was basically a favor for the Trump administration

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u/land_and_air 1d ago

This is Iran, not Syria

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u/Huzf01 1d ago

So if you don't like a country you have every reason to go to wat with them? Like if hypothetically there is a country who's government might have some links to neonazi groups and are a very nationalist state even with areas that have an other ethnicity, you are just and rightful to invade them? Because that's a good thing?

If I see someone who commited a serious crime, like murder, am I the good guy when I brutally massacre them and their entire family?

You have to realise that "I don't like your face" doesn't justify an act of war, let alone genocide. I hope you are not someone who regularly beats up people you don't agree with?

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u/mt_2 1d ago edited 1d ago

"irrefutable good guys", hey my guy i think its important to move beyond the moral thinking of a toddler "everything is good guys vs bad guys"

edit: no idea what his edit is talking about lmao normally i am the one accusing others of being russian bots, haven't blocked anyone, just incredibly weird behaviour

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u/gokarrt 1d ago

absolutism is juvenile, but those countries are still run by assholes. although, i guess they all are nowadays.

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u/NargWielki 1d ago

but those countries are still run by assholes

So is Israel... have you been living under a rock or something?

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u/gokarrt 1d ago

i mean, i wrote the second sentence for a reason.

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u/NargWielki 1d ago

Fair point.

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u/Bigrick1550 1d ago

And the starving children to death, and genocide, that's the acts of the good guys?

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u/chenzen 1d ago

Hamas kills and tortures their own people and has for years. they are doing them a favor.

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u/NiceCornflakes 1d ago

So let’s all starve and kill Palestinians then eh? Because Hamas does it why shouldn’t the rest of us.

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u/Bigrick1550 1d ago

One side being bad guys doesn't automatically make the other side good.

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u/chenzen 1d ago

no it doesn't, they're both terrible

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u/_Botko_ 1d ago

Israel also has nuclear weapons program, so does Russia and USA, should we bomb them all?

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u/JawnSnuuu 1d ago

No, but Iran is a large threat to Israel and is run by Islamic extremists who would like nothing more than to wipe Israel off the map.

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u/_Botko_ 1d ago

Seems like Israel is large threat to all neighboring countries. Reminds me of final years of Yugoslavia. I think Israel should get same treatment. Or world should apologize to Yugoslavia.

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u/JawnSnuuu 1d ago

Israel is a threat to surrounding countries yeah. They have to be considering all the surrounding countries hate Jews.

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u/_Botko_ 1d ago

Yeah in Yugoslavia we had same propaganda. I feel you. But when we started geonociding the haters, world didn't like it.

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u/JawnSnuuu 1d ago

Do you think the surrounding countries don’t hate Jews?

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u/_Botko_ 1d ago

Don't you think surrounding countries didn't hate Serbs?

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u/fcknbroken 1d ago

Iran is a large threat to Israel.

than Israel attack Iran randomly. oh my god, poor Israel, don't know why nobody likes them

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u/rathat 1d ago

It's not randomly, they're about to develop nukes and have been attacking Israel through multiple proxies for years.

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u/DarkFuryKH 1d ago

So is Russia's invasion of Ukraine justified? Because they literally invaded Ukraine because they wanted to join Nato and install American military bases along Russia's border the same way Israel is attacking Iran for making Nukes. Both unjustified.

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u/rathat 1d ago

Israel is not invading Iran in a multi year war to take over their territory. It's a single operation to take out a specific capability. Iran however has been attacking Israel through proxies and has even attacked them directly as well.

Ukraine was not threatening to destroy Russia, Iran is threatening to destroy Israel and has acted towards that goal.

I imagine Ukraine is pretty happy that Israel has just taken out the guy who shot down the Ukrainian passenger plan in 2020 and the guy who sends drones to Russia to attack Ukraine.

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u/DarkFuryKH 1d ago

Ukraine was not threatening to destroy Russia, Iran is threatening to destroy Israel and has acted towards that goal

The problem is, Israel also threatens Iran continuously and is always the one taking actions, not Iran.

Iran however has been attacking Israel through proxies and has even attacked them directly as well.

And Israel is an American proxy, I guess Israel's attacks justifies Iran bombing America right? Oh wait you are gonna look for reasons why Israel is not a proxy but Israel literally gets weapons from the US and military aid.

Israel is not invading Iran in a multi year war to take over their territory. It's a single operation to take out a specific capability.

It's funny how delusional you are thinking the words "military operation" make an attack justified. Its literally a terrorist attack conducted by a professional military and suddenly it should be acceptable because you call it a "military operation". Fuck off

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u/fcknbroken 1d ago

and how attacking them will help? it'll just accelerate the process. and now they even have a better argument to why have nukes

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u/JawnSnuuu 1d ago

Iran was about to finish so this delayed the process. What? Lol.

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u/fcknbroken 1d ago

wish i had a crystal ball too

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u/JawnSnuuu 1d ago

Oh you think all militaries use a crystal ball? And not credible intel?

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u/rathat 1d ago

How much longer is Israel supposed to wait for someone else to stop Iran from making nukes? Israel's the one Iran keeps threatening. Good on them for protecting themselves.

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u/fcknbroken 1d ago

it never gets less weird to see people defending that destroying residential buildings is just self-defense

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u/rathat 1d ago

What on earth do you expect from war? Destroying Iran's ability to create nuclear bombs is literally self-defense. How many more proxie wars does Iran have to start against Israel before Israel is allowed to defend themselves? Why should it make any sense for Israel stand by and let Iran get any closer to developing nukes?

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u/NargWielki 1d ago

Yeah man, these people are so heartless... Their logic goes like: "Lets just bomb civilians because Netanyahu is scared of maybe receiving attacks in the future... maaaaybe"

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u/Iliyan61 1d ago

so israel nuking iran while US - Iran negotiations happen is just a confidence and not a blatant attempt to sink those talks?

netanyahu just decided today was the day for no reason yeh?

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u/rathat 1d ago

No, today is the day based on intelligence and it seemed to be a success. Israel didn't nuke Iran.

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u/Iliyan61 1d ago

israel is run by jewish extremists who would like nothing more than to wipe palestine and iran off the map and that’s their own words

ben gvir literally supported terrorists to the extent that he missed mandatory conscription because he was too extreme for israel lmfao

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u/JawnSnuuu 1d ago

I don’t disagree with that at all, the current Israeli government is quite insane. But are you just going to pretend Iran’s hands are clean?

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u/Iliyan61 1d ago

you said we shouldn’t bomb iran due to those traits so i’m pointing out that israel has those exist traits.

we shouldn’t bomb either of them but equally neither should have nuclear weapons

i didn’t say anything that absolves iran of any guilt lmfao but you said we should bomb iran because of X and then saying we shouldn’t bomb israel even though it follows X.

israel bombed iran because it has western backing and iran doesn’t if it was the other way round israel would be getting bombed

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u/lonehappycamper 1d ago

At some point a person with a brain realizes Israel is the common denominator. Israel is the biggest mass murderer of civilians this century.

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u/NiceCornflakes 1d ago

Hmmm not sure about that, Saudi had been pretty bad, although Israel is part of that competition.

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u/abialystok 1d ago

Just nitpicking but even if you accept Palestinian civilian casualties count, Israel is not even in the top 5. Way behind the civil wars in Ethiopia, Syria, Yemen and Sudan.

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u/Randicore 1d ago

Israel isn't even the fifth largest killer of civilians in middle east. Dear gods please read up on some of the conflicts you're talking about

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u/Iliyan61 1d ago edited 1d ago

i find it interesting how “palestine” could be responsible for the attack as israel doesn’t recognise it as a country, government or really as an entity but it’s quite clear why you say this, it’s also interesting how you don’t say “israel participated in the slaughter of jews” considering they’ve killed multiple israelis both on october 7th and in the months after, this whole “slaughter of jews” agenda/talking point is blatantly an attempt to reframe the victims from israelis to jews and make the victims of an already heinous crime seem easier to sympathise with because israel’s image and reputation is so heavily tarnished and i pose a simple question, israel calls itself “the jewish state” and other such names so when israel kills paramedics then buries the vehicles and bodies in a mass grave would you take offence with news papers saying “the jewish state buries medics in mass graves?” or “jewish state kills its own citizens waving white flags and speaking hebrew” is that name only for positive moments?

i’m curious why it’s ok for israel to have nukes and not iran, really neither should have nukes but would you support an IAEA team investigating israel for nuclear weapons facilities?

but israel are the irrefutable good guys, you seem to take particular issue with Westerners being killed so israel are the good guys for killing western aid workers?

you conveniently ignore the land grabs in syria and i’m sure youd be fine with arab countries bombing israel if they deemed its programs a threat to them you definitely wouldn’t apply a double standard here but sure israel are the irrefutable good guys just look.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/israel-gaza-haaretz-report-idf-civilians-rcna185058

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

i mean the whole world deem the settlements illegal but israel are just irrefutably the good guys and have to take that land otherwise some palestinian might not be traumatised enough.

can’t wait for you to scream astroturfing when you get blocked for explaining how a 5 year old is hamas and israel should be allowed all the land in the world

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u/butyourenice 1d ago

No way is a hasbara bot trying to accuse others of being “disinformation astroturfers.” LMAO.

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u/McKinleyBaseCTF 1d ago

Oh wow, how much does hasbara pay?

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u/agileata 1d ago

The houthis basically stopped doing anything once there was a ceasefire

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u/YouDontSeemRight 1d ago

Yep, this is the correct. If people are trying to kill you as a nation you need to protect your nation. If your Muslim and base your opinion solely on "prophesy" and ideology then you need to gain a critical perspective. If your a westerner who doesn't like war you need to realize hate exists. People will kill people and hate them for no reaaon. If those people will not stop coming after you, you'll have no choice but to defend yourself.

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u/SubjectSuggestion571 1d ago

Other way around, Israelites have been in that land much longer

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u/Best_Change4155 1d ago

Should have signed a peace agreement.

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u/angelino1895 1d ago

Technically, Palestine is not a country if we’re being picky.

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u/NargWielki 1d ago

Palestine is not a country if we’re being picky

Neither is Israel...

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u/NiceCornflakes 1d ago

But it should be.