Iranian Revolutionary Guards Killed in Israeli Strike on Damascus
www.palestinechronicle.com
An Israeli missile strike on Syria's capital Damascus on Saturday killed several members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
  •  Cyborganism   ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 
    17•6 months ago

    Israel is just bombing everybody in their neighborhood now, aren’t they?

    So what will happen if the international court finds them guilty of genocide, and their allies stop sending weapons and munitions? They’ll be surrounded by very angry nations who will want them to disappear after what they did.

    •  yetAnotherUser   ( @yetAnotherUser@feddit.de ) 
      8•6 months ago

      Israel has been bombing Iranian targets outside of Iran for a while though. It’s largely the reason they try to keep positive relations with Russia - to be able to continue bombing Russia aligned nations: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/politics/pegasus-israel-ukraine-russia.html

      It’s “just” a continuation of the Israel-Iran proxy war which has been going on for some time. I don’t think this is a meaningful, if any escalation.

    •  PowerCrazy   ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English
      6•6 months ago

      those are some big assumptions. You may as well ask what would happen if the US declares Israel a terrorist state and then sends 1000 cruise missiles to assassinate all the Kismet leaders+their families. It would stop the genocide, but it also will never happen.

    •  Truck_kun   ( @Truck_kun@beehaw.org ) English
      5•6 months ago

      “They’ll be surrounded by very angry nations who will want them to disappear”

      That is a pre-existing condition to Oct 7th. It is why they will continue to be supplied with weapons for defensive purposes, even if reduced on the offensive front.

      No government wants Israel to not have traditional defenses. They are a potential nuclear threat.

      Israel is estimated as of a few years ago to have about 1/3rd the amount of nuclear weapons of China. Now it is only about 1/5th, but that is only because China is rapidly building a nuclear arsenal; pre-covid they had about 300-350 nukes, 2 years ago they had 400, now China is up to 500. Estimated to have 1500 nukes in ~10 years.

      I’m not trying to talk about China, more put on the scale that their tiny country has a massive nuclear capability in comparison to such a large country as China in modern times. In an existential threat, I wouldn’t be surprised about them using them, as they are the only country in that area of the world potentially with a nuclear arsenal.

      This is more informational for those that do not know that Israel is considered a nuclear power:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons