G7 expresses support for Israel, calls Iran source of instability

[Beastly Boy]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Group of Seven nations expressed support for Israel in a statement issued late on Monday and labeled its rival Iran as a source of instability in the Middle East, with the G7 leaders urging broader de-escalation of hostilities in the region.

The air war between Iran and Israel - which began on Friday when Israel attacked Iran with air strikes - has raised alarms in a region that had already been on edge since the start of Israel's military assault on Gaza in October 2023.

"We affirm that Israel has a right to defend itself. We reiterate our support for the security of Israel," G7 leaders said in the statement.

"Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror," the statement added and said the G7 was "clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/g7-expresses-support-israel-calls-050749585.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. BAM!!!! nt.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

2. Israel killing 50,000 civilians in Gaza is cause of Middle East wars

The Israel government is currently controlled by wacko extremists just
like Iran.

Israel’s Slaughter of 50,000 plus civilians in Gaza is a vile act by a government that thinks it’s massive war crimes are ‘ok’.

The current Israel government is the worst enemy for any peace in the
Middle East

[MarineCombatEngineer]

5. So Iran, with their stated goal of destroying Israel and racing towards a nuke,

arming and supporting various terrorist factions whose stated goal is also the total destruction of Israel, aren't the greatest threat in the ME?
Wow, up is down, black is white, etc.

[mcar]

6. They're just freedom fighters

Doncha know.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. I'm eagerly awaiting that one.

[mcar]

10. Poor poor Iran

Won’t somebody think of the fine people who murder women for not wearing headscarves?

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

7. Stop Netanyahu Before He Gets Us All Killed

Stop Netanyahu Before He Gets Us All Killed


https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/netanyahu-war-on-iran

Stop Netanyahu Before He Gets Us All Killed

We could soon see several nuclear powers pitted against each other and dragging the world closer to nuclear annihilation.

JEFFREY D. SACHS
SYBIL FARES
Jun 16, 2025

For nearly 30 years, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has driven the Middle East into war and destruction. The man is a powder keg of violence. Throughout all the wars that he has championed, Netanyahu has always dreamed of the big one: to defeat and overthrow the Iranian Government. His long-sought war, just launched, might just get us all killed in a nuclear Armageddon, unless Netanyahu is stopped.

Netanyahu’s fixation on war goes back to his extremist mentors, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Yitzhak Shamir, and Menachem Begin. The older generation believed that Zionists should use whatever violence–wars, assassinations, terror–is needed to achieve their aims of eliminating any Palestinian claim to a homeland.

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Over the past 30 years, Netanyahu and his US backers have destroyed or destabilized a 4,000-km swath of countries stretching across North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean, and Western Asia. Their aim has been to block a Palestinian State by overthrowing governments supporting the Palestinian cause. The world deserves better than this extremism. More than 180 countries in the UN have called for the two-state solution and regional stability. That makes more sense than Israel bringing the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon in pursuit of its illegal and extremist aims.


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[MarineCombatEngineer]

11. Oh, I get it now,

Iran isn't any kind of threat to Israel and the ME with their stated goal of destroying Israel through it's proxies and their race to acquire a nuke, which they more than likely would use on Israel.
Wow, thanks for educating us.

[Mountainguy]

21. Yet, at the same time

Israel attacking them will "get us all killed."


Which is it?

[Beastly Boy]

13. Oh sure, plenty of evidence for that:

-The Syria civil war
-The Hezbollah attacks on Israel
-The Yemeni civil war
-The Hamas attack on Israel
-The Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
-The Iraqi-Kurdish conflict
-The Hamas-Fatah conflict in Gaza

You name it, it all started with Israel’s Slaughter of 50,000 plus civilians in Gaza

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. Some of the crap I read here just blows my mind when it comes to Israel.

[Beastly Boy]

17. It's just piling up

It's not nuclear armed Iran religious fanatics and their equally fanatical terrorist proxies that will get us all killed. It's Netanyahu.

How can you even reason with this nonsense?

[Deep State Witch]

29. Who Do You Think Funds HAMAS?

And Hizbollah? And the Houthis? The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps - Quds Force. BTW - Al Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.

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

[LexVegas]

3. This is going to sting the Israel haters. nt

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. It already has.

[marybourg]

9. Notice that

the “region . . . had already been on edge since the start of Israel's military assault on Gaza in October 2023.”. Not since Hamas’ raid on Israel on Oct 7 which precipitated Israel’s attack, but since “Israel’s military assault”. This is how the subtle twisting of history as regards Israel begins and has always begun.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

12. Noticed that also. nt

[Beastly Boy]

15. We've already got this fallacy parroted here.

Didn't take long.

[sarisataka]

16. Not the first time I have noticed MSM

presenting it in that way. It is almost as if October 7 never happened (I have seen that claim made on DU) or worse, that Israel deserved it

[Rob H.]

18. If you want a real historical shocker, go read up on the Nakba in 1948

Arab-Israeli history didn't suddenly begin on October 7, 2023.

[tritsofme]

19. No doubt! Yom Ha'atzmaut is a glorious day of celebration!

[Beastly Boy]

25. I am way ahead of you

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

Indeed, Arab history did not begin on Oct.7

[marybourg]

28. Don't have to read up, lived through it. So I am super aware

of the anti Israel distortions and outright lies that have ensued since.

[kwolf68]

20. Israel has right to defend itself

Did Iran attack Israel? I must have missed something. And spare me the "they have nukes" stuff, the MIC and other assorted war mongers have been saying this for 20 years, that Iran is just weeks away from a nuke. Hey regime change, just like in Iraq. And that was fun.

[Beastly Boy]

22. You did miss something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2024_Iranian_strikes_on_Israel#:~:text=On%201%20October%202024%2C%20Iran%20launched%20about%20200,II%20%28Persian%3A%20%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA%20%D9%88%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%87%20%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%82%20%DB%B2%29.%20%5B18%5D

And I don't even have to bring up Iran-financed and trained terrorist proxies in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

24. Yes Iran has been attacking Israel for decades now through their proxies,

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Hizbollah and HAMAs, the Houthi's, all the while working towards a working nuke that I've no doubt they would use on Israel if given the chance and to hell with the contamination of the rest of the ME.
If that were to happen, about an hour later, Iran would cease to exist as a country.

[Happy Hoosier]

23. And so they are.

They fund violent proxy armies. They supply Russia with drones that rain down on Ukrainian cities. Fuck Iran.

But I'm kinda hoping both Iran AND Israel can lose this war.

But I am constantly amused by the fake AI images showing the supposed F-35s that Iran [didn't] shoot down.

[Beastly Boy]

26. I am hoping that both Iran and Israel can WIN this war.

Iranians are sick and tired of the ayatollahs telling them how to live their lives.

[Happy Hoosier]

27. Well said. and hopefully NutandYahoo can get the boot too. NT