• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    8 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.

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      8 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@lemmy.ml
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      8 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.

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    8 months ago

    So is the world at war now? Like, so many countries are getting bombed now, but no one’s declaring war. So what IS an act of war these days?

    • mlg@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Actually sending ground troops instead of doing airstrikes and missile launches without needing to cross the border.

      These are all still mostly tit for tat strikes, nothing big.

      Only Gaza is getting properly bombed and actively invaded so that would be a war.

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        8 months ago

        Nothing big just a little bombing other nations. Imagine if I could simply blow up parts of my neighbors yard because I don’t like what he’s doing, but I couldn’t be arrested unless I actually stepped in his yard. They give me that right and then I’ll accept bombing isn’t war.

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          8 months ago

          You have a naive understanding of world politics. There is no “police department” that can “arrest” Israel for bombing their neighbors yard.