Iran-backed Shi’ite armed groups in Iraq have ramped up rocket and missile attacks on Israel in recent weeks, raising concerns in Washington and among some Iranian allies of potential Israeli retaliation and regional escalation should they draw blood.

Though the attacks, often from hundreds of miles (kms) away, are not seen by western officials and Israeli experts as posing the same level of threat to Israel as point-blank strikes by Hamas and Hezbollah, they have increased in number and sophistication.

At least two have hit their targets and many have had to be shot down by U.S. and Israeli defences, according to U.S officials and public statements by the Israeli military.

New weaponry such as cruise missiles have been regularly used since May and are harder for air defences to destroy.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1613·
    6 months ago

    The human rights abuses have been going on pretty much the whole time Israel has existed…

    But what has been happening the past 7 months isn’t normal.

    And is only happening because our current president has spent a lifetime saying hell never stop supporting Israel.

    They’ve tried a lot to take it this far, but regardless of who was in office and what party they were from, the US president draws a line in the sand and Israel chills out some.

    They just don’t respect Biden, to the point when he draws a line, they immediately and obviously jump over it while yelling at Biden for drawing the line they didn’t care about.

    What is happening now is not normal, just look at how the last Dem president handled this shit:

    Biden recounted in private that when he was vice president in 2014 and Israel mounted a military assault on Gaza, Obama and his staff rejected his belief, held for decades, that the best way to approach the Israelis is to hug them close but not criticize them, the people familiar with his comments said.

    Instead, they said Biden has noted, Obama publicly admonished Israel’s actions and voiced concern for Palestinian civilian deaths early into the 2014 conflict. As a result, Biden has argued, Obama squandered any ability to influence the Israeli government as it invaded Gaza, said the people familiar with his comments.

    They said Biden’s message when he revisited the 2014 debate was: I was right then, and I am right now.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-obama-divide-closely-support-israel-rcna127107

    When it comes to Israel, either Biden is completely ignorant, or this is the result he wants.

    What Obama did cooled things down, what Biden says was the right move, leads to one of the largest and most destructive genocides in modern history.

    And he’s proud of it and bragging about how he knows more than anyone else, while refusing to listen to protestors, voters, and likely his advisors/campaign team.

    He’s going to keep doing whatever he wants, because he feels entitled to our votes because no matter what, trump is worse.

    America is at a very dangerous place right now because we have to accept anything that’s not trump and have no say in who that is.

    • CyborganismEnglish
      42·
      6 months ago

      I 💯 agree with you on this statement.

      • girlfreddyOPEnglish
        42·
        6 months ago

        Same. Really don’t understand the downvotes they got.