The Middle East Thread

A minor, and some might say irrelevant, digression:

Has there ever been a film which summarises the interminable futility of capturing Jerusalem than Kingdom of Heaven?

A lot of people criticised it at the time but, as the years have gone on, it has proved to be so accurate…

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Ah, takes me back. I must be honest and say that I don’t really remember the movie very well any longer :slight_smile:
But I liked it well enough at the time, even though I thought it was too hollywood :slight_smile:

Watch it again, my friend.

Now that you are older, you might read more. :crossed_fingers:

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:man_shrugging:

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News now that B-2 bombers have been forward deployed to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, within strike range of Iran.

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https://x.com/jhaboush/status/1907174471473193199

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So the Force Posture necessary to successfully strike Iran will soon be online. 14 days maybe.

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A powerful Gazan family “kidnapped”/arrested a Hamas militant and executed him today, in a further sign that their ironclad regime is cracking at the seams.

This comes after the Hamas militant murdered a man at a food queue

His family later today took revenge and captured the Hamas member and publically executing him (shown here)

https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/1907109153593495889
There is a video of the angry crowd bringing forth the Hamas militant, before he is executed, but I’ll spare you the execution video.

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Need to send these fellows to the white house

There is also ( I missed this earlier today, which irritates me since it is meaningful) the deployment of air defence.

https://x.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1907230076099608992

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A sequel we really didn’t need: Gulf War 3

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Yeah, to put it very mildly.
I wonder what the plan is to avoid having to invade Iran, if full war breaks out.

Just a long bombing campaign until Iran is exhausted and seeks detente and a cease fire ?
It will also mean terrible things for oil prices.

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Any full fledged attack by the US on Iran would probably require US having troops in the neighborhood. Don’t really see the Gulf countries taking this well.

Plan? What’s a plan?

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They’re not even hiding the fact that it’s a land grab these days.

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Freaking warmongers. They can’t abstain from periodically starting wars.

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To their credit, they never actually hid their intentions.

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Where’s the credit in that?
Also that is only clear if you have some understanding of this Isreali government. I’d also add that even then only blatantly since Trump came in.

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Well, I was reading this page: David Ben-Gurion - Wikipedia

And since the beginning of the Israel state, any concession or agreement has been made towards fully taking over the whole territory.

So nothing is hidden indeed.

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At some point, some people will start to notice the contradiction in America First position and waging a new war. Maybe.

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