I can only imagine the frustration and anger with which Ukrainians are watching Israel's US-supplied Iron Dome and Patriot missile batteries knocking down Iran's drones and rockets.
More than half of Iran’s weapons were destroyed by U.S. aircraft and missiles before they ever reached Israel. In fact, by commanding a multinational air defense operation and scrambling American fighter jets, this was a U.S. military triumph.
The extent of the U.S. military operation is unbeknownst to the American public, but the Pentagon coordinated a multination, regionwide defense extending from northern Iraq to the southern Persian Gulf on Saturday. During the operation, the U.S., U.K., France, and Jordan all shot down the majority of Iranian drones and missiles. In fact, where U.S. aircraft originated from has not been officially announced, an omission that has been repeated by the mainstream media. Additionally, the role of Saudi Arabia is unclear, both as a base for the United States and in terms of any actions by the Saudi military.
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Israel’s statement that it shot down the majority of Iranian “cruise missiles” is probably an exaggeration. According to U.S. military sources and preliminary reporting, U.S. and allied aircraft shot down the majority of drones and cruise missiles. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that the Royal Air Force Typhoons intercepted “a number” of Iranian weapons over Iraqi and Syrian airspace.
The Jordanian government has also hinted that its aircraft downed some Iranian weapons. “We will intercept every drone or missile that violates Jordan’s airspace to avert any danger. Anything posing a threat to Jordan and the security of Jordanians, we will confront it with all our capabilities and resources,” Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said during an interview on the Al-Mamlaka news channel.
French fighters also shot down some drones and possibly cruise missiles.
And wow💀 just wow this shows how people REALLY don't understand ANYTHING and know NOTHING about israel.
I love this artist, sorry, i meant loved, they are from Argentina so no wonder they don't know shit and are fed only from extrimist propaganda on the media.
They call the iron dome "genocidal hero" 💀 the iron dome is a DEFENSIVE mechanism not OFFENSIVE it has NOTHING to do with killing people, in fact it PREVENTS DEATH.
The iron dome is built to retaliateand stop rockets from hitting israel and killing civilians- its a SHIELD not a WEAPON. If it was a hero he would break metal as a daily activity, he would break mirko's human bunny legs like they are twigs with no problem
Can people start actually doing their research about israel for exchange?
What is unique, at least since the era of open colonialism and its genocides, is the unity this carnage has inspired among political elites in the Global North, and to some extent beyond it. After all, when fascism rose in Europe the 1930s, it had powerful supporters in our political classes, but it also had powerful opponents.
That is far less true today. All across what passes for a political spectrum, from the rabid far right to the mealy-mouthed centre left, we have witnessed powerful actors putting their partisan differences aside to come together in active support of these crimes against humanity. Far from fracturing our political class, this iteration of fascism has united it: Donald Trump agrees with Joe Biden; Rishi Sunak with Keir Starmer, Emanuel Macron with Marine Le Pen; Justin Trudeau with Giorgia Meloni; Viktor Orbán with Narendra Modi.
And so, we must ask: On what precisely do they all agree? What are they uniting behind? What are they all defending when they speak of Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’?
It’s too simple, I’m afraid, to say they are united in defense of a single state. They are, of course, but they are also united in defense of a shared belief system. Amidst the reality of global economic apartheid and accelerating climate breakdown, they are united in a shared supremacist vision of safety and security for the few. This vision is the flip side of their steadfast refusal to in any way address the underlying drivers of these crises: capitalism, limitless growth, colonialism, militarism, white supremacy, patriarchy.
As Sherene Seikaly puts it, we are ‘In the age of catastrophe’ and ‘Palestine is a paradigm’.
Hello can someone explain to me like Im 5 how zionist logic works?
Zionists like to say that they absolutely cannot stop bombing Gaza for even a second because khamaaas!!!! would attack israel immediatly and destroy it. Aight.
But then the same zionists boast about the iron dome and how thanks to that khamaaas!!!!! cant destroy israel.