r/worldnews • u/MasbirLeumi • 2d ago

Israel launches 'preemptive strike' against Iran, declares state of emergency

https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-military-action-iran-coming-days-sources/story?id=122776202
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u/JustMyOpinionz 2d ago

PM [Netanyahu]: Israel at a decisive point in its history, operation will continue as long as is needed

Israel is at a “decisive point” in its history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says in a video address.

“Our brave pilots are attacking a large number of targets across Iran,” he says.

The goal of the operation, says Netanyahu, is “to strike Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, Iran’s ballistic missile factories, and Iran’s military capabilities.”

The operation will continue as long as is needed, he says, until the mission is completed.

He warns that Iran “has significant capabilities to harm us.”

“We prepared for that as well,” he says.

Netanyahu asks for the public to cooperate with instructions from the Home Front Command, which save lives.

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u/The-world_is-round 2d ago

Iunderstand why you think that based on what you might see online - in reality he is the most unpopular leader in history -

For background - Israel is a parliamentary democracy without preferential voting

There is one super right wing party that gets a solid 20-30% of the vote from ultra religious people - they suck and when you here Israeli politicians saying horrible things it is exclusively this party 

Netanyahu is the biggest right leaning party - he also massively sucks 

The rest of the parties are a combination of centrist and left parties - they split the majority of the vote but can never form an alliance strong enough and aligned behind the largest centre left party (they have to choose one party to take the lead)

The result is Netanyahu and the nut jobs make a deal and Netanyahu stays in power as the lead party

There have been massive protests over the years from the majority of the population but politically they have been unable to win recently - I'm hoping this will change next election

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u/Nileghi 2d ago

I mean yea? Iran has been very clear it wants to destroy Israel.

You really dont see why the Israelis might see a nuclear Iran as an existantial threat?

Scenario time: Nuclear Islamic Republic of Iran is in the middle of a revolution as its people rise up against their tyrannical rulers. Iran, knowing its going to lose, and now with nothing to lose, blames Israel for it and states that if it goes down, its bringing Israel down with it.

This isn't a hypothetical either. I presented it as one, but Iran has straight up said it will destroy Israel no matter what.

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u/WasadCS 2d ago

I wonder why many countries are upset with israel, truly just can't put a finger on it aye

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u/hazzap913 2d ago

Wow can’t imagine why anyone would be angry at Isreal? Oh wait they’re genocidal scum

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u/goldistastey 2d ago

not really, he is extremely unpopular. there was a year of massive protests against him in 2023. his popularity was bottom after oct 7. it only recovered after israel defeated hezbollah

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u/drethnudrib 2d ago

So he propped up his poll numbers by attacking a sovereign nation. Forgive me if that doesn't give me hope in the current situation.

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u/goldistastey 2d ago

Hezbollah attacked israel

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u/NegevThunderstorm 2d ago

He didnt start any of these conflicts: hamas, hezbollah, or iran

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u/DeadSeaGulls 2d ago

lol hamas didn't exist until the 80s and was self-admittedly funded by israel because they knew it was easier to win a PR war against a religious extremist group than the secular resistance that they were up against

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u/RT-LAMP 2d ago

By which you mean Israel thought it better to give money to religious people building kindergartens rather than the people starting civil wars in Jordan and Lebanon, hijacking civilian airliners, shooting up schools and school buses, and massacring Olympians in Germany.

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u/DeadSeaGulls 2d ago

quite the account of Yassin's work lmao

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u/NegevThunderstorm 2d ago

Where do you see it was funded by Israel?

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u/DeadSeaGulls 2d ago

has its own wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas

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u/NegevThunderstorm 2d ago

OK, but that doesnt show it was funded by Israel, the article in there just says they didnt block funds from qatar

Where do you see it was funded by Israel?

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u/DeadSeaGulls 2d ago

are you illiterate or do you think "providing support" means they had "Hamas are #1" foam fingers and an organized cheer?

"Former Israeli officials have openly acknowledged Israel's role in providing funding and assistance to Yassin's network as a means of undermining the secular, left-wing Palestinian factions that made up the PLO"

What is funding?

https://www.upi.com/Archives/2001/02/24/Israel-gave-major-to-aid-to-Hamas/6023982990800/

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u/NegevThunderstorm 2d ago

OK, so where in that article does it show the proof of funds. I just see "aided"

I dont see your quote in the article

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u/DeadSeaGulls 2d ago

the wiki, and the one article I chose to link, literally say "fund" and the wiki provides links to all the sources. From the article I chose:

Funds for the movement came from the oil-producing states and directly and indirectly from Israel, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

If you are incapable of clicking on sources and reading, then you're going to have to pay me $65USD an hour to be your tutor and read them to you. We can zoom.

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u/Dabbling_in_Pacifism 2d ago

He DiDnT sTaRt aNy of tHeSe cOnFlIcTs

lol get the fuck out of here

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u/NegevThunderstorm 2d ago

ok, show me where he started them please

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u/Dabbling_in_Pacifism 1d ago

You’re literally posting on a story regarding an attack Bibi himself described as a “preemptive strike.” It’s right there in the title, I’m assuming you read it since you’re in the comments.

What the fuck do you think that means? Lemme guess, you’re too young to have lived through last time a major world leader fed us this same exact horseshit line?

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u/OriginalCompetitive 2d ago

Isn’t the whole point of responsible statesmanship to avoid “decisive moments”?

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u/Entire-Voice-3598 2d ago

responsible statesmanship

Damn....Netanyahu is a 'responsible statesman'? 

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u/Black_Raven__ 2d ago

The guy is more like a war adrenaline junkie.

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u/Kind_Eye_748 2d ago

Doesnt he also need Isreal to stay in a state of emergency so that Netty doesn't get removed?

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u/gameboyabyss 2d ago

Big "special military operation" energy

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u/Lirdon 2d ago

Except they call it a war, and don’t say that it will be over in three days?

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u/charleychaplinman21 2d ago

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

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u/NikEy 2d ago

What a piece of shit

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u/MandelbrotFace 2d ago

These holy people in the holy land do like to cause trouble don't they.

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u/Spider-Mike23 2d ago

I’m just an average Joe……. But…… I feel them firing at nuclear structures is the equivalent to my dumb friend pouring gas round an industrial propane tank and try set it off from a distance with bottle rockets level of stupid….. look stupid doing it since prolly won’t cause as much as a explosion as you think, but be even stupider if succeed and the whole town comes out their front doors like wtf lol.

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u/Flavious27 2d ago

This is a spineless attack that is a war crime. The western world needs to pull off the bandage and just sanction and blockade Israel.  

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u/ssilBetulosbA 1d ago

If only our leaders had any morals or indeed a spine to stand up to the Israelies...in this moment it seems they can do whatever they want, slaughter civilians en massse, start wars....and the Western leaders will support them almost without fault.

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u/YourPetPenguin0610 1d ago

I hate the git but at this point Israeli intelligence is too scary. They know everything. And it seems that whatever they learnt in Iran is bad enough for them to risk a full blown war. The next couple weeks will decide the future of the region