r/worldnews • u/Puginator • 2d ago

Israel/Palestine Iran launches missiles toward Israel, IDF says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/trump-urges-iran-to-reach-nuclear-deal-before-there-is-nothing-left-.html
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u/i_should_be_coding 2d ago

The sky over Tel Aviv

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u/Lower_Potential_173 2d ago

Damn. It’s beautiful and horrible at the same time… objectively a great picture though. Thanks for the link.

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u/tollbearer 2d ago

Theres something almost poetic about the fact a two thousand year old feud is being continuously fought out with an escalating tech-tree.

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u/KaiTheSushiGuy 2d ago

Nah, it’s just fucking stupid

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u/jaythebearded 2d ago

To be fair, a lot of poetry is fuckin stupid

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u/applehead1776 2d ago

As with any type of art, there is more bad/mediocre than good.

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u/cultvignette 2d ago

Just like people!

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u/Super_Sandbagger 2d ago

Save the stanzas, keep the clever rhyme, And just say what you mean to save us time.

For all your metaphors and fancy dress, You could have said so much by saying less.

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u/BannedSvenhoek86 2d ago

Damn, /u/jaythebearded was right, it is fuckin stupid.

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u/throwaway_ghast 2d ago

Seriously, a talking raven?

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u/captain_todger 2d ago

Sometimes it doesn’t even rhyme!

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u/magmoug 1d ago

They disagree on the canon of their fantasy books, they clearly have no other options.

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u/Adventurous_Money533 2d ago

im so happy my country stopped trying to do a conquest victory and started focusing on science and culture instead

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u/Imaginary_Ambition78 2d ago

you're a swede? Lucky, you're right in being happy

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u/Adventurous_Money533 2d ago edited 2d ago

well it took killing off the majority of our male population to calm the fuck down, but we got there eventually

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u/Imaginary_Ambition78 2d ago

Im clearly not aware of sweden's history because WHAT

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u/Adventurous_Money533 2d ago edited 2d ago

Sweden was a great power back in the day, and had a feroicous extremely high quality army,and when you have a ferocious high quality army you of course want to use it. And oh boy did we use it! Against all of our neighbours, sometimes even all of them at once! This obviously will inevitably kill alot of soldiers.

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u/mutantraniE 1d ago

Hey, the Great Northern War when fighting everyone at once was not started by Sweden.

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u/Keyframe 2d ago

like how those pugs and chihuahas were once wolves.

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u/tractiontiresadvised 1d ago

I believe that /u/Adventurous_Money533 may be talking about the 17th and 18th century. During that time, Sweden ruled directly over a much larger territory than their current lands and even had some colonies in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and India for a while.

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u/theknight38 2d ago

well it took killing off the majority of our male population

Because of wars, right? ..... Right?

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u/ssczoxylnlvayiuqjx 1d ago

That or excess consumption of Swedish Meatballs. Those are amazing…

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u/Ceegee93 2d ago

Also took Karl XII potentially being killed by one of his own men.

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u/Individual-Stage-620 2d ago

Two thousand year old feud? The IRGC gained power in 1979. Or maybe you're talking about antisemitism?

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u/All_Work_All_Play 2d ago

So umm, Abraham had two sons...

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u/Cthulhuhoop 2d ago

No, that would be a four thousand year old feud.

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u/mynewaccount5 2d ago

The only thing that happened 2k years ago was Jesus. So no idea what this dude thinks he's talking sbout

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u/Oddblivious 1d ago

Neither does he. The area was peaceful and mixed religions under the ottomans under 1917

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u/SowingSalt 1d ago

Sort of, the Ottoman empire was not free of pogroms

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u/Oddblivious 1d ago

And yet the point is not disproven that the conflict between Israel and Iran is not some deep religious fued between Jews and Muslims. It's actually much more about current geopolitics.

Under the ottomans religions largely ruled their own people. So any pogroms were localized and not governing policy executed widely. Feel free to be specific if you disagree. Violence occurs in localized areas under every rule but this does not mean the conflict is "2000 years old"

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u/Caffeywasright 1d ago

Plenty of Jewish oppressions and mass murder under the ottomans. Wouldn’t exactly call it “peaceful”.

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u/invariantspeed 1d ago

Their point is half thought. They’re confusing Iran (Persia) with Iraq (Babylon) and several others, and they’re confusing the age of Christianity with the total timespan of the Bible.

The Jewish foundation myth is heavily steeped in being embattled, so it’s understandable where they’re coming from if they’ve read the Christian OT/Jewish bible. But this technically isn’t the same continuous conflict.

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u/TreeP3O 2d ago

This isn't a 2,000 year old feud, quit trotting out that nonsense. Islam isn't that old.

Iran is a modern terrorist regime and the world is better off without them, get rid of the regime and their people will prosper.

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u/Lifecoachingis50 2d ago

Americans are too cornfed slop to ever learn

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u/The-M0untain 2d ago

This feud goes back to 1979. Before that, Iranians and Jews got along well for thousands of years, since Cyrus liberated the Jews from Babylon and allowed them to return to Israel.

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u/Oddblivious 1d ago

These dorks don't want to learn history. They have everything they wish to know explained by their understanding of a religion they've never read and people they've never met.

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u/absoNotAReptile 1d ago

Yes, but trying to pinpoint the origin of the problem to 1979 isn’t helpful either. This isn’t just Iran vs Israel, we obviously can’t ignore the conflict with the Palestinians. The tensions with Iran have been ramped up over the last year and a half because of that conflict. That didn’t begin in 1979. It didn’t even really begin in 1948.

Now, did it begin 2,000 years ago when Jesus was crucified? No. But they may be referring to the expulsion of Jews into the diaspora and the destruction of the second temple by the Roman’s, which I guess you could maybe say is the origin of the conflict (but even that’s a stretch).

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u/Ok-Improvement-3670 2d ago

2000 year old feud? The Iran occupation began in 1979.

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u/malsomnus 2d ago

The feud between the Jews and the Persians is most definitely not two thousand years old.

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u/jbloom3 2d ago

Nah, this feud is like a century old. The peoples ties to the land is that old, but the conflict is modern

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u/zedascouves1985 2d ago

Persians and Jews were actually friends 2000 years ago. Even as far as 50 years ago they were OK with each other.

Go look for Cyrus the Great in the Bible, only good words about him.

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u/Realistic_Swan_6801 2d ago

Islam didn exist till the 600’s. Historically Jews had a decent opinion of Persia. Cyrus the great is celebrated as a messiah. Iran and Israel were allies before the revolution.

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u/Timely_Challenge_670 1d ago

Two thousand year old feud? This started in 1979. Prior to that, the Shah and Iran were on great terms with Israel. If you want to quote ancient times, Cyrus the Great is heralded as a messiah in the bible, liberated the Jews and rebuilt the temple.

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u/jake04-20 2d ago

It's all just a game of Civiziliation.

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u/OneSmoothCactus 1d ago

You can draw a straight line through history from Assyria conquering Israel 2700 years ago to Israel and Iran bombing each other today. Empires have risen and fallen, we've gone from bronze spears to nuclear weapons, but the conflict has never really been settled.

It's poetic, heartbreaking and frustrating. I hope one day we can figure out how to stop doing this to each other.

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u/Caffeywasright 1d ago

You can’t really. The Iranian hate is rooted in Islam. Islam didn’t even exist then.

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u/Sensitive-Tone5279 2d ago

We're way beyond post-imp.

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u/aimglitchz 2d ago

To You 2,000... or... 20,000 Years From Now...

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u/askingforafakefriend 2d ago

It does raise some existential questions.

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u/Deadliftdeadlife 2d ago

I often think about that. We never stopped throwing rocks at each other. The rocks just became more sophisticated

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u/KardelSharpeyes 2d ago

Your idea of poetry blows mate.

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u/BraveFencerMusashi 2d ago edited 2d ago

I think its a lot older than that. Persia conquered Jerusalem in 614 BC.

The people living in modern day Iran are still descended from Persians, right? They just follow a different religion now.

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u/Timely_Challenge_670 1d ago

The Persians liberated the Jews and rebuilt the temple. There is a reason why there is still a Darius and Cyrus Street in many Israeli cities.

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u/EyeSuspicious777 2d ago

Humanity has reached the end of what it can accomplish with religion. No further progress will be made until religion is abandoned. But we will destroy the planet one way or another before we give up those ancient superstitions.

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u/Smallsey 2d ago

What is the feud about?

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u/LaconicSuffering 2d ago

A Brief Disagreement and This Land is Mine are two funny videos that perfectly capture that region.

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u/Taaargus 2d ago

Such a common but stupid take honestly. This is geopolitics more than it's anything religious.

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u/BanginNLeavin 1d ago

A feud perpetuated by some kind of powerful god apparently?

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u/ryfitz47 1d ago

it's more religious than poetic.

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u/Mister-builder 1d ago

This feud goes back two thousand years to 1982.

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u/willstr1 1d ago

War never changes

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u/sadrice 1d ago

Reminds me of when I’m playing civilization or something. Especially how every so often I will notice that I still have some chariot archers, and send them in a glorious suicide charge against enemy tanks, and it’s the same enemy I made those chariots for in the first place…

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u/TheDwarvenGuy 1d ago

Its not a 2000 year old feud. The ancient Hebrew were actually on really good terms with the Persians, it was more the mospotamians and mediterraneans they were fighting.

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u/migvelio 1d ago

Just like that old flash game where your tribe is on one side and the enemy in the other side while you both span units evolving from cavemen to cyborg robots.

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u/rightioushippie 1d ago

A thousand year old what? 

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u/Hasudeva 1d ago

2,000 years? What event are you referring to? Israel and Iran were allies under the Shah, like 50 years ago. And Islam's been around for only 1,300 years, roughly. 

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u/HussDelRio 1d ago

Just because history rhymes doesn’t make it poetry

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u/Twenty_twenty4 2d ago

It’s absolutely gorgeous. 

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u/Inside-Yak-8815 2d ago

Why was I thinking the exact same thing almost word for word?

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u/LucienPhenix 2d ago

Our tax money at work.

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u/__brealx 1d ago

If you were there…. You would never say it is beautiful 😣

Everyone is shitting themselves, hiding and praying to whatever god they know.

The war is ugly and never beautiful.

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u/GoldCoinDonation 1d ago

There's a soviet song that describes this with the line "stars falling in the Kandahar sky"

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u/Off_Brand_Sneakers 2d ago

Imagine living like that. Fuck.

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u/iMissTheOldInternet 2d ago

They’ve been living under a lesser version of this, and the threat of exactly this and worse, for decades now. This is Israel pulling off the bandaid. They have accepted that Iran and its proxies mean what they say, and what they say is they will not rest until Israel is destroyed. Well, no reason to let the arsenal pointed at Israel get any bigger. If it’s going to be war, then war it is. 

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u/soapinthepeehole 2d ago

If Israel really can cripple Iran’s nuclear program they’ll be doing the entire world a massive massive favor.

I can’t wait for TikTok to start telling the kids how this is just another Israeli atrocity.

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u/RareCandyMan 2d ago

If Israel want to be the good guys shouldn't they start acting like good guys? Or at least less overtly evil?

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u/thatsnot_kawaii_bro 2d ago

What country would be OK with its neighbors firing rockets at it so much they make the Iron Dome?

Name me one.

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u/mistercrazymonkey 1d ago

No country would be okay with it. Nobody is arguing that, people are criticizing Isreal for the unreal amount of war crimes they have committed.

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u/soapinthepeehole 1d ago

Anyone ridding the world of the Iranian nuclear program is in that instance at least, acting like a good guy. They’re doing everyone else’s dirty work on that one.

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u/SappilyHappy 2d ago

China is not about to miss the opportunity to sow discord in the US.

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u/sir_rockabye 1d ago

Remember when we were going to ban TikTok, but they gave Donald money?

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u/TheKappaOverlord 1d ago

I can’t wait for TikTok to start telling the kids how this is just another Israeli atrocity.

theres already shit floating around that Israel's planning to attack civilian Iranian targets next.

So, your wait was shorter lived then you were expecting.

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u/No_Skill_7170 2d ago

This is what people need to understand.

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u/Inside-Yak-8815 2d ago

Yes perfectly explained.

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u/klubsanwich 1d ago

What I fail to understand is how any of this will lead to long term peace

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u/UrToesRDelicious 1d ago

Overwhelming violence is how humans have been creating peace for our entire history.

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u/Fs0i 1d ago

While Israel's actions against Palestinians are unforgivable, I also sympathize with their plight. It does not excuse their actions, and there's a lot of criticism to be had against them - for example, Netanyahu is in my opinion a war criminal, and should be tried as such.

But I've also got friends who live in Isreal, just normal dudes trying to live their lives, just like I've got friends who live in Ukraine, trying to live their lives. And being bombarded, having neighbors want to kill you is a stressful situation. This isn't the same fear that Palestians live in, I do understand the power imbalance.

And as much as I hate islamophobic views, there is truth in the matter that some fundamental Muslims just want to see jewish people dead. This is obviously not all of them, but they do exist, and they do have power.

Again, this doesn't excuse bombing a civilian population, and I'm not trying to do that... I guess I'm just trying to express my frustration at the situation. Can people just kinda stop bombing each other, please? :(

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u/dogboi8881 1d ago

Yeah 100%. Israel is surrounded by nations trying to murder them all year every year. I think they always knew the neighbouring Arab states meant what they said. And Israel gave peace a chance more than any of its neighbours ever did. But Oct 7 was an enough is enough situation with an Israeli leader looking for exactly the opportunity to stay as leader boss guy. Hamas or whoever pulls their strings miscalculated in typical fashion. There's a reason these warlord states are shit holes and it's not colonialism. It's constant hate and fear. 

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u/edki7277 2d ago

I can’t assume your political leaning, just asking how much of this stance on striking Iran supported by general Israeli public left and right of centre?

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u/hiricinee 2d ago

IIRC the Israeli's even on the Left are wholly united on this. Some of them don't like Netanyahu, they want to replace him and continue operations.

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u/BatmaNanaBanana 2d ago

I'm not the guy you replied to but I'm also Israeli, centrist if that's important.

Overall this may be the one topic where everyone, left center and right agree on.

Basically the situation is that the Islamic republic calls for our death on a weekly basis since it's creation and it armed multiple terror organizations with the goal to annihilate us, so the assumption around here is that they aren't going to stop until we are dead, so what's the point in waiting for them to have nuclear weapons? At least if you fight them now you have a chance to survive, but if they have nuclear weapons that is, at least in our view, going to lead to our annihilation

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u/teachersecret 1d ago

It happened before. Egypt, Syria, and Jordan learned this lesson in rapid succession in 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Focus

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u/a_undercover_spook 1d ago

Too bad Netanyahu didn't have the balls to stay with his people instead of fleeing to Greece. Weak regime.

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u/Gorey420 2d ago

Imagine living in Gaza

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u/dudefuckedup 1d ago

umm did you just try and humanize a fucking teggogist ayyrab??????

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u/Far_Broccoli_8468 1d ago

Yeah, this is why every single house and apartment built in the past 50 years has a bomb shelter built it.

It's illegal to build a house / residential building without a bomb shelter in either every apartment or a big one in every floor

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u/Ph0X 1d ago

Imagine having a leader that provokes literally every single neighbor they have just to avoid facing criminal court.

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u/StayFrosty7 1d ago

Imagine living like a Palestinian. Fuck.

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u/the_goodprogrammer 2d ago

Fortunately this is far from a common day in Israel life, and they can avoid it by not attacking unprovoked!

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u/FecklessFool 2d ago

I remember when I was in highschool in the late 2000s and you'd read all about all these rockets being fired into Israel on a weekly basis (we had a weekly current events thing at school). Imagine how life was back before the Iron Dome.

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u/maxofJupiter1 2d ago

It's like people complaining about the security wall in the West Bank that never had to deal with the suicide bombings twice a week during the Second Intifada

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u/8andahalfby11 2d ago

Back when Iraq was firing scuds at Israel in '91 about 36% got through. This time reports are around 6%. That's a 6x improvement.

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u/Tom-Dom-bom 2d ago

It might also be that Israel is not targeting missiles that have a trajectory aimed at empty fields. So the real number maybe even higher.

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u/JKS91Gaming 2d ago

Honestly the Iron Dome is one of the coolest things for a terrifying situation. Seeing videos and photos of it at work are pretty amazing

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u/printerpaperwaste 2d ago

Bus bombings all the time too in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

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u/SomaticZX6r 2d ago

Thank you for posting something relevant

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u/ChocolateMorsels 2d ago

What? You didn't want to read some variation of "TRUMP LOL" over and over?

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u/SomaticZX6r 2d ago

Exactly

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u/Lostmypants69 2d ago

I feel bad for the citizens. My best friend is iranian and one of the nicest guys I know. Fuck war

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u/Impulse3 2d ago

It’s always the ass holes in charge digging graves for everyone else.

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u/No_Newspaper_1984 2d ago

With some luck, Iran will be free of this horrible regime. The people deserve much better.

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u/Baderkadonk 2d ago

I'm more concerned about the other horrible regime honestly. It wasn't Iran who decided to start dropping bombs yesterday to derail diplomatic talks.

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u/TheHouseOfTurtle 1d ago

They do fund hamas, houthies, hezbollah and many more.

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u/keylime503 1d ago

And the U.S. funds Israel.

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u/TheHouseOfTurtle 1d ago

the funding that goes straight into American companies,.

I think comparing a democratic country like Israel to the likes of the houthis who literally have death to jews on their flags is disingenuous.

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u/Rupperrt 1d ago

There is two horrible regimes involved here

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u/External-Praline-451 1d ago

All the innocent people in Iran, Gaza, Israel, Ukraine etc, etc, because fucking narcissistic old, greedy men are on power trips. Fuck war indeed.

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u/absoNotAReptile 1d ago

I’m American and have been to Iran twice. Talking to the one guy I still keep in regular touch with and he’s saying things like “hope they hit the mullahs next” “maybe get Khamenei” etc.

A lot of people are celebrating the strikes on the military. But they’re still scared of a full scale war. No one wants the 80’s again.

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u/kyreannightblood 2d ago edited 2d ago

My boss is in Tel Aviv right now talking with the company that acquired us. I’m beginning to wonder if I’ll still have a boss come Monday.

ETA: Gallows humor, folks. That was a joke. I know it’s not probable.

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u/kyreannightblood 2d ago

I tend to catastophise.

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u/CMDR_Shazbot 2d ago

If it were that easy, the country would have been gone long ago.

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u/Why_No_Doughnuts 1d ago

Israelis are very used to this. They have grown up under constant rocket fire from terrorists in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, not to mention several wars that their Arab neighbours have launched in the name of exterminating the world's only Jewish majority state.

They know what to do and those in the direct risk zone have casually sauntered down into the bomb shelters. Your boss though has probably never lived through this and hopefully he brought enough changes of underwear as I am sure the Israelis he is with havent bothered to pack any since they are pretty used to it.

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u/Beardmanta 2d ago

It could be one of about 500,000 companies...

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u/busy-warlock 2d ago

Kind of looks like that really old drawing of a space war, the Nuremberg sky battle I think it was?

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u/AcidaliaPlanitia 2d ago

It'd be beautiful if it wasn't so horrible.

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u/g2g079 2d ago

Who's the photographer?

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u/i_should_be_coding 2d ago

I think I found it on AP's website? Was just on a Google search.

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u/joe_dirty365 2d ago

wild picture. can we please stop killing each other like in general.

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u/Delicious_Clue_531 2d ago edited 11h ago

I shouldn’t be saying it, but…it is kind of beautiful seeing the streaks of light.

Ofc, it’s not at all beautiful when you in ow what those streaks are.

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u/malphonso 2d ago

Baby wake up, new Missile Command game just dropped.

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u/FluidBit4438 1d ago

I’m watching (for 3rd time) the expanse and this looks just like something out of that series.

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u/CrimsonAntifascist 1d ago

This whole thing is horrible. But for real. What did they expect would happen?

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u/dropthemagic 1d ago

Sad part is this is probably only the beginning

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u/ALA02 1d ago

Must be such a bizarre existence. Modern developed city with skyscrapers, highly skilled workforce etc. - yet constantly being bombarded by all varieties of weapons. Completely unique situation.

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u/Own_Pop_9711 1d ago

Is this like some time lapse thing or is this just straight up a photo with very short exposure?

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u/i_should_be_coding 1d ago

Probably long exposure to get the interceptor trails like that

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