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By Lesia Dubenko
This Shabbat is special
The time has come to get things done.
After much talk and years of preparation, Israel has finally struck Iran to prevent its nuclear program from turning into a fully-fledged bomb, killing top commanders and nuclear scientists alike while damaging facilities. Including Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility.
I will not even in the least hide the fact that I’m exhilarated.
First, I sincerely and wholeheartedly despise Islamism and put absolutely zero effort into hiding that.
Second, I love Israel’s courage in addressing situations that others appear to be unable to address.
Third, I’m just happy that Ukraine’s number 2 enemy after Russia is humiliated just like Moscow, which has “strongly condemned” Israel’s attack.
Because Iran is our enemy.
It is Iran’s drones and missiles that are killing Ukrainians, and it is their ideology of hate that underpins this collaboration.
I want them gone.
Not in the sense of Iran being destroyed, no. Persia is an ancient and rich culture, and I have no problem with it. On the contrary, I’d love to visit it, and Mesopotamia, the true regional powers, not regimes of the teeny-weeny women-hating, insecure men in dresses and headwraps who took the country they took hostage in 1979.
Persia deserves better, the Middle East deserves better, Ukraine deserves better, and the whole world deserves better.
עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי
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Attacks on the izlamonazis are continuing.
Hundreds of overflights of KSA are required. They must have had permission. Publicly the Saudis are quiet, but likely behind the scenes they are saying to the Israelis :
“Well done. Keep it going.”
I doubt if putler is too bothered:
It’s another welcome distraction for the rat nazi as he continues his demonic genocide.
And it’s yet another excuse for Krasnov to cut off Ukraine completely.
“Iran is Russia’s military ally. Iran, a supplier of weapons, has transferred its technology to Russia and helped train Shahed drone operators.
There is no doubt that Russia will support Iran in the Middle East war (mainly through the media and ideologically). The main reason is to divert the attention and resources of Ukraine’s allies from the summer offensive. The United States has already failed to provide us with the air defense missiles that were intended to protect Ukraine.
Russia is interested in spreading and escalating military conflicts around the world and diverting attention so that the war in Ukraine takes a back seat and international aid decreases.
As I have been saying for a long time, Russia has opened Pandora’s box. Russia is a cancerous tumor that has not been treated and is now metastasizing throughout the world.”
Author: Anton Gerashchenko
There is a UNSC meeting tonight. This will be interesting, with russia supporting Iran, and the US supporting Israel. It puts Krasnov in a tight spot.
This could make things interesting in our Congress. As taco is siding with mafia land, mafia land siding with iran, and the US traditionally siding with Israel, what will our inglorious Congressmen and women do in this unglamorous clusterfuck that Trump created and they allowed?
Iran needs wiping off the map after what they did to the Ukrainian passenger plane, but why was the same pressure never placed on NK by the US? Fat boy threatens to nuke the US on a weekly basis, yet they took no action whatsoever when russia helped them to build nukes.
“…but why was the same pressure never placed on NK by the US?”
Because we have a gangster in the White House with the nick taco.
I am very glad that death and destruction has been brought to iran. They fully deserve it.