I mean, there’s a bit more nuance to it. The Middle East has changed dramatically several times in the last century. If you put it that way you make it sound like the Crusades are still going, which is not historically accurate.
The jist that everyone’s memory selectively extends back to the last time they were wronged is correct, though.
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.
De-escalate, everything goes back to normal is looking pretty viable, actually. Or at least was a couple weeks ago. Israel is the only one that wants to have a regional war right now.
That would mean Netanyahu goes to jail for corruption, though, and he doesn’t feel like it. And America doesn’t feel like stopping him.
It’s retaliations all the way down…
Always has been.
I mean, there’s a bit more nuance to it. The Middle East has changed dramatically several times in the last century. If you put it that way you make it sound like the Crusades are still going, which is not historically accurate.
The jist that everyone’s memory selectively extends back to the last time they were wronged is correct, though.
Israel has two realistic options
de escalate, don’t retaliate and watch them keep going.
escalate, retaliate, and give Iran the same two choices.
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.
Yup. And yet some how rockets are still happily coming in both directions. Same two choices remain.
De-escalate, everything goes back to normal is looking pretty viable, actually. Or at least was a couple weeks ago. Israel is the only one that wants to have a regional war right now.
That would mean Netanyahu goes to jail for corruption, though, and he doesn’t feel like it. And America doesn’t feel like stopping him.
Zionism was invented in 1897. There was no “retaliation” before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_as_settler_colonialism