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An Israeli missile has hit Iran, two US officials have told the BBC's US partner CBS News.

Iranian state media is reporting that flights have been suspended over several cities, according to Associated Press.

Iran has been on high alert after Israel said it would respond to an Iranian attack against it on Saturday night

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[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Please explain how Israel attacking Iran is Joe Biden's fault? He said the United States would not support a retaliatory strike against Iran's retaliatory strike. All the blame falls directly on Netanyahu and the Israeli government.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The US is Israel's shield... Israel can only afford to be a belligerent bully bombing embassies because nobody wants to get involved in a war with the US. The US is enabling Israel's worst behaviors.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea what this image means.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

I’ll take a stab. The picture implies that the Durstley’s enabled the bullying of their son.

[–] hime0321@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s like people forget that the Israel/Palestine conflict has been going on longer than the partial term that Biden has had.

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Israel/Iran conflict as well. It's just no longer through Iran's proxies only.

[–] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He said the United States would not support a retaliatory strike against Iran's retaliatory strike.

A retaliatory strike just happened. What's Biden's move?

[–] Bell@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No doubt a sternly-worded press release!

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Concerned and disappointed.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Well, the Biden Administration did not support it in the sense that they din't send their missiles along and no US launch infrastructure was used.

They never actually said they were against it much less they would punish Israel for it.

The use of a "we won't help doing it" fromulation in a way that can be misinterpreted as "we're against it" so that they can have plausible deniability later when it turns out they're not really against it is pretty standard doublespeak from the US Administration.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

He hasn't done anything to stop Netanyahu when he has a position of unique leverage. In fact he keeps rewarding this behavior with more weapons and fighter jets.

Netanyahu takes most of the blame for being the guy but Biden has had a 100 chances in the last few months to pressure him to stop. Instead we're shoveling more coal into the fire.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He's failed utterly for 6 months to do anything to reign in Israel when their genocide is being funded by US taxpayers. He's had 6 months to yank Netanyahu's leash and he's refused so the entire time.

This ENTIRE situation is a result of US foreign policy: Its a direct consequence of Bidens failure of leadership.

[–] machinin@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

He said...

I think that is the point. So far Biden has apparently just said a bunch of words. Biden could actually do more than he is now. Instead, the genocide is continuing unabated, Israel continues to aggressively and wrecklessly escalate the regional tensions.

Come on genocide Joe, actually draw a red line and stick to it.

[–] Grobmobularb@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The mouth breather can’t explain anything. I’m sure Newsmax and Alex Jones told him all problems on Earth are Biden/The Democrats fault….