Iran has told Israel through the UN that it will intervene if the country’s operations against Hamas in Gaza continue, a report has claimed.

Israel has warned 1.1 million people living in the north of the enclave to evacuate ahead of an expected ground operation in Gaza with the IDF planning to strike the territory from land, sea and air.

Iran’s involvement could be through a militant group from Syria or by backing Hezbollah to join the conflict, diplomatic sources told Axios.

Meanwhile, Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said that Israel’s operations could cause fighting to expand to other areas of the Middle East which would cause Israel to suffer “a huge earthquake”, reported the Associated Press.

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    So this could widen to Israel/USA/UN(?) vs Iran/Syria/Lebanon(Hezbollah)/Gaza(Hamas) which would essentially be The War on Terror II. Which means another ~20yrs in the Middle East. Oh goody.

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    Real question: why is the us so involved with israel?
    Is it just a “sunk cost fallacy” thing or is it any more than that?

    It feels weird sinking so much money for someone else’s wars over so many decades… like trillions over wars and apart from ukraine recently its been always and only israel demanding the aid

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      Half of evangelicals support Israel because they believe it is important for fulfilling end-times prophecy

      According to prophecy, Israel must exist to bring about rapture, when Jesus’s followers will ascend to heaven and everyone else will be killed. Since they are not followers of Christ all Israelis would be killed.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/half-of-evangelicals-support-israel-because-they-believe-it-is-important-for-fulfilling-end-times-prophecy/

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        They probably think they’re s clever. “Silly Jews, you think you’ve got such a good deal with all this free money but wait until the magic sky man comes and murders every one of you in cold blood because that’s what somebody who claims to love people does, murders billions of them, and you’re first! Ha ha. Silly magic sky man, doesn’t even know about all the loopholes.”

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      Corruption and money laundering through the military complex. I mean who needs free medical care anyways, right? That’s for European commies.

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      Evangelical caucus believes that the Jews trying to build the third temple will make the rapture happen.

      Dumbfucks can’t even read their own book right.

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      We have a lot of enemies out that way and so do they, so we became allies and support them because it’s in our best interest. We keep supporting them because apparently they’ve held up whatever end of the bargain we request and for the US money is easy.

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      Well a few years back a group of really nasty people tried to murder every Jewish person. Then a thing or two happened, the USA nuked a few cities because the State in which those cities existed allied themselves with the people that wanted to murder all the Jews.

      Now, we have the back of the Jews, and one of Hamas’ stated purposes is to murder all the Jews. Makes sense we’d be interested in keeping that from happening. Genocide is kind of a bad thing.

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      The only reason the US wouldn’t be on the side of the European colonists bringing god and civilization to a deserted wasteland full of annoying houses and mysteriously angry natives is antisemitism. Once that calmed down criticizing Israel is criticizing US history and that would be woke.

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      I think if Iran steps in with feet on the ground, the US probably will too, unfortunately.

      Fucking Nicky Hailey is foaming at the mouth for it to happen.

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    Oh the rogue nation wants to play along? Isn’t supporting the Russians against my country enough?

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      The Palestinians are in the same position as Ukraine, if not further down. Ukraine has been lucky to have Western support, the other path was to end up like Palestine.

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        when did Ukraine supported and voted for a degenerated terror militia that wants to eradicate the Jews? I must have missed that…

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            and that legitimate their attack on Israel or what are you trying to say?

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              In your previous comment you implied that Palestine voted for a terror militia to eradicate the Jews. Essentially piling all of the responsibility on top of the Palestinian people. I shared that link to show that Israel shoulders some of the blame as well.

              People defending Israel are starting to sound like a broken record “dO yOu cOnDOne ThE aTTaCKs?” Come on dude, very few people actually support the mass slaughter of civilians, and it still doesn’t absolve Israel of their behavior.

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                I don’t give Israel absolution at all…all involved parties in this conflict have fucked up big time. This conflict is way to complicated that a dipshit like me can come up with a solution. I just don’t like those whole Palestine good, Israel bad and vice versa simple mindset.

                At a very cynical day I would say let them kill each other off and give the land to all the refugees from around the world. This conflict is one of the most, if not the most degenerate one…

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                Sure thing, that antisemitism is a common practice in the surrounding countries has clearly nothing to do with that.

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          So because they’re so opressed they can’t vote a leader, and even their leaders can’t do anything they somehow deserve to be eradicated from this earth? For some mere votes?

          You’re justifying genocide for such a stupid reason? Wow…

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          According to the tanks, soon as they voted for Zelensky since they won’t shut up about how Azov are apparently his personal goon squad or some shit

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          Do you not know how analogies work? No analogy is perfect.

          For example, Russia hasn’t been an occupying force in Ukraine for 60+ years. Russia hasn’t been actively genociding (yes, this is genocide, read the UN Convention on Genocide) Ukrainians on their own land for 60+ years.

          Did you miss that part too?

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            I missed the point never to discuss with an idiot…because kiddo your analogy is not just “not perfect” it is completely utter bullshit.

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          Only if you assume Iran is an infallible moral authority and not an authoritarian regime working to further it’s own interests. I am not defending Iran but I’ll be damned if I’ll let people who are being oppressed shit on other people being oppressed.

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    As if Iran’s fingers weren’t in the fucking pot from the start of this shit show. Bitch we’ve got the receipts that you all but handed Hamas the plans for their little murder rape and pillaging expedition.