No. Saudi Arabia is not doing the samething as Ukraine. They werent invaded but Palestine and Lebanon were invaded and Ukraine did what Palestine and Lebanon did which is use a foreign sponsored paramilitary to fight their invaders.Yeah, well, 75 years of being surrounded by hostile neighbours bent on your destruction has made Israel a little brutal. Israel's not guiltless either of course, I think its behaviour in the West Bank in particular is unconscionable, but it does draw humanitarian lines its enemies do not. It doesn't use suicide bombers or human shields or deliberately attack civilians, but collateral damage in a place as densely populated as Gaza is unavoidable. And Hamas et al know they're going to get thunderous reprisals, Israel's always done that, which will just create more collateral damage they can point to as Israeli atrocities. And they must know that Israel with U.S. help could send Gaza back into the Stone Age in short order if it chose to. That U.S. carrier task force on its way to the eastern Mediterranean could probably do it in a couple of leisurely afternoons. The fact that it hasn't chosen to speaks well of its restraint, restraint that its neighbours would not show if they had the power to do what they want, which is simply to utterly destroy Israel, the Hamas charter at least is quite clear about that. Both sides claim the land was promised to them by a deity and it's the parties of gawd who are preventing the obvious two state solution. They've done it before.
I thought there was some kind of weird statute of limitations on this thread, and it couldn’t have any mention of anything that happened in World War II or previous? Perhaps I’m mistaken. It happens.
While the Islamic Republic is under growing American military pressure, Tehran is hoping three of its traditional proxies — the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas — to rejoin the war. Can these Tehran allies regain losses they suffered in the last two years?
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The Houthis are threatening to deepen a global energy crisis by blocking Saudi oil exports to Asia. Hezbollah, increasingly disliked by the Lebanese people, is facing American progress in forging ties between the Jerusalem and Beirut governments. Hamas increasingly hitches its wagon to Tehran, picking a leader close to Iran.
The dominant power at Tehran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, is widening attacks on American bases in Gulf countries and increasingly targeting Jordan. Tehran considers these American allies the equivalent of its own terror proxies. Yet Iran, perhaps of fear, is yet to directly attack Israel…this round anyway.
For two years Israel has hit Hamas and Hezbollah, depleting much of the Iran-backed terrorists’ arsenals and killing many of its fighters. The proxy network that was built by the late IRGC Quds force commander, Qassem Soleimani, is a shadow of what it used to be.
As War Intensifies, Iran Steels the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas — The New York Sun
The Islamic Republic is ‘not forsaking its proxies. It seeks a back-to-basics strategy for all of them,’ a Tehran watcher tells the Sun.apple.news
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Tehran is rebuilding Hezbollah to the tune of $1 billion a year. In Yemen, the Houthis mostly remained quiet since the February 28 launch of the American and Israeli strikes in Iran, but the Yemeni terrorists are now revisiting the idea of closing the Red Sea to vital commerce. And Hamas is signaling this week a tightening of relations with the IRGC.
“In a formal statement on Monday, the Houthi armed forces announced that “a maritime embargo against the criminal Saudi enemy, based on the equation of ‘an eye for an eye,’ is effective immediately.” The announcement caps a recent tit-for-tat that started when Saudi jets bombed the Sanaa airport last week, after an arms-carrying Iranian cargo plane landed there.”
Sounds like Saudi Arabia has done exactly what Ukraine has done, for the same reasons. In a post on X Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the targets included “ships that were involved in transporting military cargo from Iran, as well as a warship,” subsequently identified by Ukraine’s security service as a Russian missile boat.
When did the war between Ukraine and Russia start in your mind?
Give me a date.