cyberdora wrote:
I think the clerics hatred of Israel is sufficient to not care what happens to Palestinians. Iran's coordination of the Oct 7 attacks was banking on severe IDF retaliation, they and HAMAS knew hiding 200 Israeli hostages under Gaza hospitals would result in deaths of thousands of innocent Palestinians.
the Palestinian people have always been the pawns of Arab ethno-nationalists from Egypt's Nasser rallying the Arab league of nations to attack Israel. Iran are just ethe latest to use Palestinians as pawns for their own ambitions.
You make it sound like Israel wouldn't have bombed the hospitals anyways. They've been refusing to allow materials into Gaza to build hospitals for years. Up until this point, Iran has been showing a level of restraint and respect for human life that the Israelis have not. Unlike Israel, Iran seems to be genuinely attacking legitimate targets.
Anyways, it's a bit of a moot point as Israel intentionally uses civilians as human shields, that's a large part of why Mossad's headquarters is in the middle of a populated city. From what I can tell, they bet wrong about all of this. They've only destroyed like 2/3 of Iran's launchers and are a matter of a few days away from being completely out of their supplies to shoot down Iran's missiles.
The real question is whether the US can avoid being dragged into this stupid war. I personally say, let Iran wipe Israel off the map if they can. Israel doesn't have an inherent right to exist any more than the other countries in the region. Arguably less, since they're involved in active wars against like 5 other countries and attacked Iran more or less unprovoked.
Israel should have been built on German land after WWII, it would have avoided a lot of this nonsense.