Iran re-closed the Strait of Hormuz Friday instead of heading to Switzerland for nuclear negotiations, citing Israel’s refusal to pull forces out of southern Lebanon and US forces’ ongoing presence in the region.
In a statement read over maritime radio channels, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the US was in violation of the memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, which President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed Wednesday.
“Since Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, the complete lifting of the naval blockade, and the withdrawal of American terrorist forces from the Persian Gulf and the region are among the main conditions of the agreement between Iran and the United States, the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until these conditions are met,” it said. “All ships are requested, for the sake of their security and safety, not to approach the Strait of Hormuz. Any vessel that defies this directive will be targeted.”
USA and UK created Israel for a reason, and they’re fine with Israel’s actions.
Israel is doing what it was created to do.
Hanlons razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity [or incompetence].”
The US and the UK just didnt care about the Palestine area. It was a mess and had little strategic value. Israel is not some puppet of the west, thats absurd, and your stance has always been a way to wash Israelis hands of their own war crimes by attributing it to others.
Either way we can both agree that Israel and the US/UK should NOT be politically aligned and should go their own way. And whichever of those countries then violates universal human rights should be dealt with very harshly by the entire international community. Held at gunpoint North Korea style until they grow the eff up. agreed?
Hanlon’s Razor doesn’t always apply these days, especially when we’re talking about literal fascists.
These are malicious people, of course we should be attributing the awful shit they do to malice
Correct. It’s not just Trump, it’s an entire generations-long policy norm to suppress peace and sovereignty across the middle east that passively scapegoats and endangers jews all over the world as consequence, perhaps intentionally. Pretty sure that Israeli money still funds the majority of both Republican and Democrat campaigns in congress. We need a whole-house cleaning, Israeli lobby funds from any sources need to be popularly seen by voters as a hard disqualification. Jewish voices that oppose genocidal Israeli domination narratives need to be amplified and normalized.
This chart is useless to roughly 5% of the population. Is there a version that doesn’t use red and green?
It can double as a color blindness test
Every one of them should have to register as a foreign agent and be barred from holding office
I think they are traitors and should be treated as such.
Should have been so for decades
The Soviet Union was the first country to recognise Israel as a state, and the biggest original supporter. Link
The US became a pivotal supporter only after 1967. (And that’s when Israel allegedly became an asset)
Britain literally created the state, of course they recognized them first, lol.
Britain got tired of having their people killed by the local terrorists and left. That’s not pre-recognition of the government that those terrorists later set up.
Balfour declaration.
Fuck man. Truths.
Yeah it is kinda interesting to see people act like Israel has suddenly commandeered the US, as if they aren’t both colonial projects acting like colonizers, and building mural alliance on the grounds that you know, they wanna do colonialism shit
Theres a guy I follow online who always describes it as “the tail doesnt wag the dog”, where the US is the dog, and Israel is the tail, which is an interesting metaphor I haven’t heard much before,
There’s a movie named after the saying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog
I haven’t seen it. Not sure how well it’s held up.
Edit: There’s a wiki page on the political term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_dog
Hmmm, I’m not sure why each of those links takes me to a different wiki even though they’re identical. I imagine it doesn’t work the same for everyone else. I’ll just link to the disambiguation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog_(disambiguation)
It’s a good metaphor for explaining the concept he wants to explain, but I think it falls a bit short in that it’s not a dog with one brain that has one goal.
Instead it’s controlled by a bunch of people who have been indoctrinated that being successful is making money. People like trump have no interest in the dog, apart from how much blood they can suck from it.