"No. Why would I? What I said was perfectly correct."
- No it was totally incorrect, don't try to weasel out of it.

What I said was correct and you challenged it, and it wasn't about the planes.
You even repeated the false claim AGAIN in your last comment.

"Yet, according to you, Nasrallah remained oblivious to his impending doom and blithely went along to a meeting safe in the knowledge that a ceasefire was imminent."
- Even the Lebanese Foreign Minister says a ceasefire had been agreed.
I'm tired of you challenging everyone else and carrying on about it for months but when you mess up and say something stupid, you act like you're immune from the same rules you hold for others.
- And basically that's because you're a weasel.

"And that's what I originally pointed out. The claims that you fell for were unconfirmed propaganda from the mullahs."
Don't play it down like a weasel.
Israel copped the biggest smack in the mouth it's had in decades, their most important airfield got peppered and Iran didn't hit them in the daytime where the damage would be exposed and there would be greater casualties.
Even the ex-head of Mossad said Irans capabilities were greater than expected, that's an admission of the smack in the mouth.

"It will be wiser for Israel not to attack Iran at this stage,
but leave them in a long suspense and constant worry, just as they previously done to Israel which produced more damage than the missiles themselves they eventually rained."

- Agreed, but Israel is an extension of the US empire and it must remind everyone it carries the biggest stick.

"But then, Netanyahu does not care about the well-being of Israel, only about keeping the war going indefinitely to escape elections, then jail."
- The problem Netanyahu faces is that he hasn't achieved any of his war aims.

Hamas isn't defeated, the hostages are not returned and he hasn't been able to return the people to their Northern communities.
He may have gotten his pound of flesh from Hezbollah but he's not out of the woods just yet.

I just want to see an end to the unnecessary killing of civilians.
Israel would be smart to quit while its ahead.

While the Israelis wwere bragging 'There were no casualties'
- That was largely Irans choosing, but I note that on the exact same night Israel killed another 50 people in a strike in Khan Yunis.

Part of me would be quietly happy to see more fire rain down on Israelis heads, (because I'm not sure their attitude will change unless they accept there will be a price to pay and they have something to lose)
- But I truly don't want any further escalation, it's not helping anyone or anything except Bibi himself.

Oh Yuyutsu, I forgot.
Apparently that rocket that fell and landed on that unlucky Palestinian in the West Bank, was one of the handful the Jordanians shot down.

It was an empty street and that poor sod was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I'm calling it unlucky and tragic, because I'm not going to normalise any of this.

AC

" No it was totally incorrect, don't try to weasel out of it."

Well that is self-evidently absurd but if you explain why you think I was "totally incorrect" then I'll explain what you misunderstood.

But that's not AC's way, is it. Instead he makes these obscure assertions and thinks they carry weight.

"Israel would be smart to quit while its ahead."

At the very least, Israel will seek to unilaterally enforce the UN resolution 1701. The anti-Israel cheer-squad ignore this one. They demand that Israel accept and abide by all sorts of UN resolutions, but when Hezbollah, with the quiet nodding agreement of the UN, ignores a vital resolution, they rapidly avert their gaze.

Resolution 1701 required the region south of the Litani River to be demilitarised and administered by a combine UN and Lebanese force. It was the main carrot offered to Israel to stop the 2006 war.

Hezbollah ignored it and the UN allowed it to do so, while demanding that Israel live by it. Thus there are (or were) enormous Iranian armaments and tunnels just across the Israeli northern border. These were used to force Israel to move 70000 of its people living in those northern regions to seek safety elsewhere. (I recall AC gloating over that).

Israel will clear out the region south of the Litani River. Hezbollah, already effectively beheaded, will find itself massively reduced. Hopefully the Lebanese army will then reclaim the country for its peace wanting people.

Then Israel will quit.

"These were used to force Israel to move 70000 of its people living in those northern regions to seek safety elsewhere. (I recall AC gloating over that)."

OMG you people are seriously deranged.

'70,000 people had to move!!'
'Don't you bloody understand AC you anti-semitic piece of crap!!"

45,000 people had to die.
And who knows how many more had to go through who knows freaking what.
- I've seen what some of that 'freaking what' is btw and it ain't pretty.
That's the official number, but there's probably at least another 20,000 dead kids under the rubble, and then some.
A lancet study 3mths back said 186k, could realistically be more now, if you add on disease and malnutrition, side effects of deliberate starvation you know.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/8/gaza-toll-could-exceed-186000-lancet-study-says

As for the Israeli sending ground forces into Lebanon, I hear things aren't going well, hate to tell you, but take note I tried to tell you this BEFORE they went in and that it was a bad idea.

I'm hearing the words 'Israelis' and 'slaughtered'.

Anyway, none of this is my fight.

Dear Critic,

«While the Israelis wwere bragging 'There were no casualties'
- That was largely Irans choosing,...»

A piece of rocket fell on a room full of gas canisters supplying four apartments, just one meter away.
Fortunately it did not explode.
Had the canisters exploded, the whole street would have been flattened causing many casualties which even the bomb shelters could not save.

http://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/hyoko2orr

Was that Iran's deliberate and accurate targeting or was it God's finger, so to speak, which saved all these people?