The fact that Iran evidently worked together and upheld the JCPOA, when the West was serious about diplomacy. Then Trump came and everyone was like “okay screw diplomacy, lets just keep increasing pressure and hope the country collapses”- Then Israel came and was like “lets bomb the shit out of them to have the West love me again and stop caring about the genocide i am committing.” Then the West was like “hurr durr, Israel has the right to defend itself by attacking anyone and everyone whenever it pleases and why is Iran defending itself, how dare they?!”

When Israel assassinated politician in Iran last year. Iran only replied in a measured way to safe face, but seek deescalation. When Israel bombed Iran, Iran for the longest time did not retaliate and when it retaliated still only targeted spots with little risk of injuring or killing people, again being a “don’t tread on me” reaction, without seeking escalation. Now Israel is completely out of their mind and went on to announce and celebrate direct attacks on Civilians, effectively telling Iran, that they are out for annihilating the country.

It is the dead-mans trigger. As Israel reaffirms it wants to force regime change and commit more atrocities against Iran’s civilians, that threat becomes more realistic.

The GCC countries are certainly not going to be able to shift any balances around. What are they going to do? A ground invasion of Iran? Best they can do is help Israel bomb Civilians. And we saw how Saudi and UAE bombing Civilians in Yemen non-stop did fuck all except kill a lot of people.

The response would have to come from the US and other NATO countries, pulling their focus from Ukraine and containing China. Then it will be bye bye Ukraine and bye bye Taiwan and Israel will get what it wants, being the center of Western attention for all eternity.

You mean when the US and UK installed Shah disappeared, tortured and murdered tens of thousands of people with the aid of US and Israeli intelligence and weapons?

My hypothesis, based on previous Israeli behvaiour: (Note that “Israeli” refers here to the institutions of the state and state aligned private sector, where obviously the MIC is directly involved with the state.)

You are told that you cannot exhibit certain systems. By pushing it, you either get two outcomes:

1. You will be allowed to break the rules, subsequently having normalized that rules are not made for you.
2. You will face consequences for the rule-breaking. You loudly cry wolf and accuse everyone around to have been victimizing you. Your “homefront” will not care about differentiation, as your central narrative is you being victimized by everyone, so you get them to rally behind you. You can sow division and get some leverage by manipulating your “allies” against each other and whip them in line.

This ignores the third possible outcome, which Israel still fails to acknowledge as becoming ever more prevalent:

3. Everyone is tired of your shit as you have been pushing it too far too many times and you are actually digging yourself in a hole that will be harder and harder to climb out.

I find it rather implausible that the show organizers would be lying here. They are a private company. If they didn’t want Israeli companies there, they could have dealt with that more quietly in advance. Also it should be pretty easy for every other company presenting there to see, which rules have been communicated beforehand. Now whether they would disclose that publicly is another matter, but inside the industry it will be known and talked about.

Quality over quantity.

Great places to socialize are sports-clubs, social-clubs, volunteering, activism, religious communities…

I’d much rather spend five hours a week distributed over two or three occasions with people i share interests with, than with people i share work with. Meanwhile at work i am mostly engaged in small talk, that is quite repetitive as i see the people every day and i have to guard what i can say and what i cannot say more than in other circles.

Just the Wests favorite “Self-Defender” announcing deliberately targeting Civilians, for which he issues a non-backtracking later.

Iran doesn’t want this war

No doubt Iran has acted in aggressive ways in other places. However it seemed to not have directed its aggression directly at Israel. People keep claiming that Iran would have orchestrated October 7, but if it had, Hezbollah, Houthis and Iranian proxies in Syria and Iraq would have joined in full force. So Iran wasn’t interested in a confrontation with Israel in the past years either.

So far also Iran only matched target groups after Israel targeted them first. E.g. Israel strikes MoD offices in Tehran -> Iran strikes back at the MoD in Tel Aviv. Israels strikes Iranian gas and electrical infrastructure -> Iran strikes back at Israeli Gas and electrical infrastructure.

Iran doesn’t want this war and keeps reiterating to go back to diplomacy, however the US and multiple G7 countries, especially UK, France and Germany are rattling the sabres more, defending Israels onslaught while condemning Irans responses. These countries claiming they would seek a diplomatic solution makes for rather cynical lies when they cover the attacker and condemn the defender.

That makes gender more like “ethnicity”/“race” rather than “culture” don’t you think?

Problem is that “race” isn’t just cultural. How you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “race” and subsequently it will shape your life reality.

That person you gave as an example? In the US, Canada or most European countries he will be treated better than an actual Citizen born and raised in the respective country who is perceived as “black” or “brown”.

While true, i think that in this particular case it is more that reason prevailed. If Israel just goes out assassinating foreign head of states and the US supports that, it will be open season quickly and a very good way of starting world war 3.

I remember having a lot of fun in the first two or three tiers of war thunder. But then the higher tiers hit, everything gets way too fast and you have to deal with too many sweaters.

When they have all the components manufactured and the enriched Uranium in “nuke shape” then y would also say they are developing one.

But while nukes arent that complicated to build in principle, there still goes quite some trial and design efforts into it.

This most likely includes doing tests with causing a nuclear explosion. Such tests would be detectable and a certain criterium for an ongoing development.

Remember how NKs nuclear weapon propgram got a lot of attention some 10 or so years ago? We knew because the seismographs picked up the shockwaves of underground explosions.

I am sorry, when reading i somehow mistook the “My grandfather” for “the grandfather”.

Of course i don’t know you or your grandfather and cannot judge that for him specifically.

It is not much yet as details remain to come out. Israel striking Irans Gas infrastructure aims at setting the entire region ablaze. This drastically increases the risk that Iran will respond to attacks on its Oil and Gas infrastructure by retaliating against US and Israel allied Oil and Gas producers such as the UAE and also locking down the Persian gulf for any energy shipments.

If it comes to this escalation, which Netanyahu seems to aim for, it will benefit the US and Russia in their oil and gas sales as the prices will likely skyrocket and could force the EU to ease its sanctions on Russia and weaken Ukraine significantly in its defense against the Russian invasion.

The grandfather most likely was on the side of the Nazi regime or indifferent. Mistakenly thought the statement was about grandfathers in general, not @Airowird@lemm.ee grandfather.

Anyways, Germany is not doing that out of historical responsibility or all the other stuff they talk about. This serves, or they think it serves, their own interests.

The whole “memory culture” only took off, when Germany was reunited and the European neighbors became scared of a newly powerful Germany. The supposed memory culture and subsequently support of Israel are the founding narrative of modern Germany. Changing the position on Israel would expose that narrative as flawed and would question the veracity of Germany not being a danger to the world.

Then since a decade or two the narratives around Israel also serve three goals. First it helps shifting blame for Antisemitism on “imported Antisemitism” aka “brown people”. This can be seen with one of the “combating antisemitism” resolutions that the German parliament passed last year. As examples for “Antisemitism” it did not mention a white German Neonazi attempting a terrorist attack on a Synagogue in Halle. Instead the presentation of the movie “No Other Land” at the Berlinale movie festival was given as an example in the resolution. (Without specifying what exactly was “antisemitic” there).

The second goal is to absolve Germans from the supposed left to the far right from their own racism against Arabs and other “brown people”. By pushing the blame of “Antisemitism” on “them”, discrimination against “them” is not racist. It is just necessary to uphold Germanys historic responsibility.

Finally this also serves greatly to repress anti imperialist leftists and climate activists. Challenging colonial and post colonial structures now can be attacked as “antisemitic” as it inadvertently engages with the colonial reality of Israel.

Meanwhile Jews who do not want to be lumped in with Israel or express an anti-Zionist stance are faced with repressions and attacks by German politics and mainstream media, instead of acknowledging the Pluralism among Jewish people. In the end the alleged “fight against Antisemitism” in Germany is engaged in Antisemitism itself, instrumentalizing Jewish people and what is considered Jewish identity to conform to Germanys own narratives.

That reaction from the German government was to be expected, Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Netherlands-based Counter Extremism Project, told DW.

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

The group is modeled on United Against Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group led by Wallace which has had success increasing economic pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In 2017, GlobaLeaks obtained information allegedly originating from the email account of Yousef Al Otaiba, revealing a relationship between Otaiba, the UAE government, CEP and United Against Nuclear Iran. CEP and UANI are both led by Mark Wallace, who was employed as a senior adviser of The Electrum Group LLC by its chairman, Thomas Kaplan, the UANI’s top donor. Kaplan also maintains business relations with the UAE.

Nice. A Pro-US Imperialism, Pro-Israel, Pro-UAE, Anti-Iran “NGO” is quoted by the DW on German policy regarding Iran…

Schindler does not believe that the current military escalation will change anything around Germany’s position on Israel. “We’re not just any other country. We’re Germany, with the history of the Holocaust,” he explained. "In that sense there’s absolutely no other moral or ethical option than expressing solidarity with Israel.

Whan an evil ghoul he is. There is international law and human rights, which Germany has vowed to uphold and Israel is massively violating. Israel is fundamentally opposed to upholding these and has enshrined both in its constitution and laws that it will break these international obligations. The only moral and ethical option is to uphold these obligations and force Israel to abide by them.

During his visit to Cairo, Wadephul commented on the Iranian strikes that came in retaliation for the earlier Israeli ones. “We condemn the indiscriminate Iranian attack on Israeli territory in the strongest possible terms,” ​​Wadephul, a member of the CDU, said. “Iran is currently attacking Israel with hundreds of drones. There are initial reports of casualties. These developments are more than worrying.”

That is the reality of Germanys position and shows how completely beyond reason they are. Israel starts an unprecedented attack on Iran, bombs residential areas killing dozens of civillians and Germany calls that “self defense” while condemning the counter-attack as “indiscriminate” hours before anything arrives in Israel. Germany is a complete joke when it comes to upholding international law.

Israel engages in similar rhetoric. I wonder if the sentiment would be “Iran just preemptively defended itself” amongst our politics and media if Iran was to strike nuclear facilities and assassinate military leaders and scientists in Israel.

Also it gives an angle to investigate such companies for breaking the law and fining them.

Given that the Irish are much more critical of Israel, i am sure there will be a few people looking into these things.

No matter how many tires you are stockpiling, you aren’t manufacturing a car, unless you actually manufacture a car.