Israeli military spokesman says attack ‘will have consequences’; Israeli residents told they can leave shelters; Iran says it is ready for any retaliation

For those who missed it, Iran launched a missile attack on Israel, it appears to be over for now, but who knows how long?

  • snooggumsEnglish
    26•6 hours ago

    So, Israel will retaliate for Iran retaliating against Israel’s actions that were retaliation for…

      • @HappycamperNZEnglish
        5•5 hours ago

        Israel has two realistic options

        • de escalate, don’t retaliate and watch them keep going.

        • escalate, retaliate, and give Iran the same two choices.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 hours ago

          The difference being that Israel has been going for escalations much stronger, having attacked Lebanon far more often over the past year than Hezbollah had attacked them and ramping things up with more and more attacks including attacks onto Syria and Iran directly.

          Netanyahu needs the escalation to distract from the failure of achieving any strategic goal in Gaza and to drag the US into a war, so as to not finally draw a line to Israels actions.

          • @HappycamperNZEnglish
            2•2 hours ago

            Yup. And yet some how rockets are still happily coming in both directions. Same two choices remain.

    • @jordanlundOPMEnglish
      14•6 hours ago

      Lather, rinse, repeat for 5,000 years.

      • snooggumsEnglish
        6•6 hours ago

        The same can be said for the entire world for the last 5,000 years. Although most od the world has settled down to historic lows in the recent past, there are multiple external powers that keep destabilizing the Middle East whenever it seems like the cycle might end there.

        • @jordanlundOPMEnglish
          2•4 hours ago

          Carlin used to joke about the India / Pakistan conflict. “Ancient hatreds with modern weapons!”

  • @[email protected]English
    2•6 hours ago

    Not gonna lie

    It was pretty cool watching the rockets flying in and getting blown up. I get the seriousness of it all but these are definitely interesting times.

    • BombOmOmEnglish
      8•5 hours ago

      Yeah, missile intercepts always look cool. Though, it is unfortunate that it’s due to what is assuredly an escalation. Israel took the first Iranian missile salvo two months ago without direct retaliation; I don’t see that happening again here.