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moniss

(7,708 posts)
11. If a nation or group of nations
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:10 AM
Yesterday

had the moral courage to send their military assets to directly attack the IDF it would change in a moment. The IDF has always been far more well armed than various groups who have limited crude rockets, grenades and rifles. The Iranian missiles that did get through the IDF defenses were a wake-up call to a great many citizens of Israel who had grown to think that their "Iron Dome" was omnipotent.

Yes of course the US would have a fit but it would remove the nature of the conflict from being that of a vastly superior force imposing what we see now with little impact to their forces and it would make it one where continuation of their actions against the civilian populations in Gaza and the West Bank would have immediate major losses in personnel and equipment.

If a group of nations indicated to the US that they were resolute on the IDF actions in the Occupied Territories being stopped immediately then I doubt whether the US would want to escalate rather than telling Netanyahu that his killing spree and land grab is over as far as getting US resupply of weapons. Crumb The 1st could be made to understand that the nations involved would seize his business assets in those countries and do so on the basis of his support for War Crimes and for his stated desire to "possess" Gaza for the purposes of luxury development and profits for his businesses and those of his family.

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The WHO must evacuate women and children out of an active combat zone. Irish_Dem Yesterday #1
The WHO is an international health organization, and authoritarian armies don't get to order it around muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #2
The WHO is being bombed. They need to get the staff families out now. Irish_Dem Yesterday #3
It's a war zone. WHO needs not to be ordered to take the obvious precautions. Beastly Boy Yesterday #13
If that paragraph were relevant, then you would be calling the IDF the agent of Hamas muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #15
Your logic is incomprehensible. Beastly Boy Yesterday #16
" the treatment accorded to them by its agents" - the treatment here is the bombing and arrests muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #17
Huh? Beastly Boy Yesterday #18
Very slowly - for those to whom logic is a new concept muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #21
Another false presumption Beastly Boy 23 hrs ago #22
Unbelievable. (nt) muriel_volestrangler 21 hrs ago #23
The things you discover when reading the whole thing! Beastly Boy 21 hrs ago #24
Is there no way to stop Netanyahu? democrank Yesterday #4
good question...no one can deny that this is crazy Vthestate Yesterday #6
If a nation or group of nations moniss Yesterday #11
That sounds like a great way to start WW III Ken Dayenu Yesterday #12
I don't believe that the US will moniss Yesterday #19
Post removed Post removed Yesterday #20
Release the hostages. Disarm Hamas. Everyone knows how to stop Netanyahu. Beastly Boy Yesterday #14
reporting like this happens too much to be fabrication Vthestate Yesterday #5
Bibi seems to have forgotten BlueMTexpat Yesterday #7
Okay atreides1 Yesterday #8
He's not worried, krasnov is in on the scheme to kill/remove forcibly every Palestinian so he can build a tower. lark Yesterday #9
That is like saying Republicans are the Party of Lincoln Ken Dayenu Yesterday #10
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