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5·1 day agoWelcome to WW3 :)
Yes you ignorant fool
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-iran-war-is-about-palestine
Today, three decades after he first cast Iran as the engine behind anti-Israel sentiment, Netanyahu has finally gotten his war. Israel posits the war as defense against an existential threat, but as ever, what is driving it is the impulse to suppress and displace the Palestine question. Seen this way, the Iran war once again reveals Israel’s most fundamental interest, which has remained unchanged for decades: to prosecute the question of Palestine on its own terms, whether through the continued system of apartheid or outright genocide. Netanyahu is once again proving that he would sooner redraw the map of the Middle East than push back Israel’s borders—preferring to crater Tehran and Isfahan than concede a single dunam in the West Bank.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/middleeast/iran-links-attacks-to-israels-war-in-gaza-intl
Attacks by Iranian-backed groups in the Middle East won’t stop until Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza ends, Tehran’s top diplomat warned on Wednesday, as tensions across the region threaten to spiral into wider conflict.
“If the genocide in Gaza stops, then it will lead to the end of other crises and attacks in the region,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67188346
“I warn the US and its proxy Israel that if they do not immediately stop the crime against humanity and genocide in Gaza, anything is possible at any moment and the region will go out of control,” Mr Amir-Abdollahian said at a news conference in Tehran.
The shattering of the Iranian regime risks triggering a catastrophic horizontal war and vertical political collapse, as Israel remains the primary existential threat to the region’s stability—a crisis forcing the Middle East back into 19th-century power politics. This regression, driven by a US policy that is dismantling the very system it once established, effectively ends the region’s brief ‘Dengist era’ and the economic spirit that once fuelled its connectivity projects.
The Israeli genocide in Gaza has dramatically escalated tensions across the region. What began as a devastating war in Gaza has gradually transformed into a broader geopolitical confrontation particularly between the Israeli-US coalition and Iran.
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/gazas-roadmap-nowhere-why-israel-wont-give-control
The former official explained that Israel is comfortable with the current status quo in Gaza because it allows it to retain control of a depopulated 70% of the enclave, while avoiding the cost of feeding and sheltering its displaced population.
No matter what the case is with negotiations, this war is a war of choice. Particularly important in understanding its causes and possible execution is the fact that the war was started by two states that are actively engaging in genocide.
Both Israel and the U.S. are perpetrating genocide against Palestinians. The United States is further engaged in domestic genocidal processes against transgender and immigrant communities. The genocidal character of these two regimes should not be overlooked, as it helps to explain their ongoing recklessness and breathtaking disrespect for international law.
Genocidal regimes are self-radicalizing entities that see power only in wanton violence and actively seek out dramatic displays of brute force in efforts to control ever more territory (and enrich themselves while doing so). They are willing to countenance high numbers of civilian casualties to get their way and have little trouble papering over the horror and tragedy they cause with overwrought, eschatological, and particularist ideology. We can see all of this in their attacks against Iran, where both countries are attacking civilian objects, especially hospitals and schools, and threatening the use of mass casualty weapons.
Regarding the genocide in Palestine specifically, it has been clear for some time now that it is closely connected to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s larger plans for a ‘Greater Israel’ in the Middle East that would realize Israeli hegemony over the region. Iran is the greatest obstacle to this plan and a war with Iran further presents the perfect cover for the continued destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza and the Occupied Territories. While Israeli expansionism was somewhat contained under previous U.S. presidents, with the exception of the illegal settlements (which have been steadily growing over the 21st century), the Biden and Trump Administrations seem to have given Prime Minister Netanyahu a green light to expand into neighboring states. Moreover, the Gaza carnage has become a model for Israel’s prosecution of war in general.
Do you want me to keep going?
I stole it from Stephen Dedalus :P
A SINGLE PATRIOT SYSTEM does not make up for all the missiles fired in the war of choice that is the Iran War, that Israel and the US chose to start arbitrarily.
No that’s the US. Racism in Germany and Europe as a whole, has always been about cultural and ethnic differences more than skin color. The persecuted slavs or jews were just as pasty as any German, unlike the “honorary Aryans” in Japan.
ahahahaha
Read The Color Purple or Their Eyes Were Watching God, the idea that racism actually cares about skin tone in any consistent way anywhere is impossible, contradictory and absurd, it is always mixed up with ethnicity, context and imposed categories. Germany is just the same as any other racist society in that respect. Check your ignorance.
You added nothing to this conversation other than a sense of condescencion.
The Magic Mountain is one of the most supremely antifascist novels ever written and its perspective from the eve of WW1 mirrors our current position with eerie and foreboding syncronicity. The Magic Mountain is easily one of the most important novels of the 20th century, if not all time.
In 1933, when Hitler came to power, Mann moved his own family to Switzerland, and then, after his German citizenship was revoked, to the USA, where he recorded monthly anti-fascist dispatches which were broadcast to Germany by the BBC.
He is ‘one of the great German writers’, wrote Malcolm Bradbury, ‘the spokesman for a modern humanism’.
https://henryeliot.substack.com/p/the-magic-mountain
Come up with a better argument if you want to cut me down.
The Iran War and the Palestinian Genocide are directly linked, I am not being disingenuous.
I think Germany has a special relationship with “whiteness” that makes it especially vulnerable to fascism, especially in how Germany is perceived and treated by other groups of white people.
Also though, Germany is a culture bursting with contradictions, within a year of Mein Kempf being published another novel was published The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann by an originally German author who moved to the US.
The Magic Mountain is firmly cemented in German culture… and is indisputably one of the best novels ever written in German or English and is certainly one of the most humanist and openly accepting of humanity in all its “failures” of any great novel of the 20th century. The Magic Mountain is the most supremely antifascist novel imaginable and it is equally allergic to racism and discrimination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann
With the start of the Cold War, he was increasingly frustrated by rising McCarthyism. As a “suspected communist”, he was required to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he was termed “one of the world’s foremost apologists for Stalin and company”.[19] He was listed by HUAC as being “affiliated with various peace organizations or Communist fronts”.
Being in his own words a non-communist, rather than an anti-communist, Mann openly opposed the allegations: “As an American citizen of German birth, I finally testify that I am painfully familiar with certain political trends. Spiritual intolerance, political inquisitions, and declining legal security, and all this in the name of an alleged ‘state of emergency’. … That is how it started in Germany.”
As Mann joined protests against the jailing of the Hollywood Ten and the firing of schoolteachers suspected of being Communists, he found “the media had been closed to him”.[20] Finally, he was forced to quit his position as Consultant in Germanic Literature at the Library of Congress,[21] and in 1952, he returned to Europe, to live in Kilchberg, near Zürich, Switzerland. Here he initially lived in a rented house and bought his last house there in 1954 (which later his widow and then their son Golo lived in until their deaths).
He never again lived in Germany, though he regularly traveled there. His most important German visit was in 1949, at the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, attending celebrations in Frankfurt am Main (then West Germany) and Weimar (then East Germany), as a statement that German culture extended beyond the new political borders.[22] He also visited Lübeck, where he saw his parents’ house, which was partially destroyed by the bombing of Lübeck in World War II (and only later rebuilt).
History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake.
Hardly, maybe bibi does but Germany would have likely supported Israel the same way the US would have likely supported Israel whether or not bibi has any “blackmail” or whatever on leaders in the US.
I mean, what German politician was it who said “Israel does our dirty work for us?”
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-merz-says-israel-doing-dirty-work-for-us-in-iran/live-72939104
Ah yes, the leader of Germany!
Yes I did read the article and no, none of your points establish that Israel is an ally of Europe or Ukraine, you have only established that Israel has increased political leverage of them.
Oh and this is from the US, who stopped Patriot missile sales to Ukraine BEFORE the war against Iran for months,
The US and Israel planned the Iran War at least months in advance? This proves nothing.
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How dare you antichristian!!
Russia is surely watching what is happening on both sides of the Atlantic closely. Moscow knows that it is also subject to the laws of physics when it comes to its own munitions depth, but it understands the politics of scarcity. If US intelligence assessments are right that Putin plans to “test NATO resolve” in the coming years, then the replenishment clock matters on both sides—and Russia is trying to recapitalize itself while fighting a full-scale war.
One of the reasons for Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow, according to the Washington Post, was to dispel the Kremlin’s belief that the Trump White House was distracted from Ukraine by Iran. Good luck with that. The reporting on the severe depletion of US interceptor stocks from the war on Iran is so extensive it can only have encouraged Vladimir Putin to launch even more deadly missile strikes against Ukraine’s defenseless population.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/03/ukraine-iran-wars-trump
I am from the USA so that is a totally, utterly perposterous idea to me, my bad I didn’t realize Europe is so much less civilized than USA.
I step on a rake and smack myself in the face
Pretty fucking dumb to endorse Genocide to the tune of ~1 billion because of guilt about conducting a Genocide…
Also all russia can really threaten Europe and Germany with are ballistic missiles and who was it again who launched a war THEY KNEW would consume much of Europe’s ballistic missile interceptors either directly or indirectly?
Israel
Vorteil durch Selbstzerstörung
also 1D fascism.
Fascism cannot sustain itself if the society it is strangling to death becomes unconvinced it is under existential threat from an opposing and equally horrendous Fascism that is so awful that it makes being choked to death by the Fascism right there at home “preferable” because at least then people can be sure the victims and perpetrators are their neighbors, not some unknowable foreign evil people invading!
Hi, JD here, anyone have more photos like this?
I honestly find it hilarious you don’t think The Magic Mountain is one of the most antifascist novels ever written, and one of the most effective and wholistic takedowns of fascism ever created in any form ever… your understanding of history must be so mutilated into discrete bloody boxes one preceding after another with no connection between one and another…