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Hamas Political Leader Ismail Haniyeh Killed in Iran, Organization Confirms
Hamas claims he died in a 'raid'. Pretty hilarious that after 10 months of puttering around the gulf states he goes to iran and instantly gets dropped. Iran really needs to worry about internal security rather than nukes.
Whatever you think of their politics, you do really have to hand it to Israel. With a population of 10 million (many of them Arabs and useless Talmud scholars) they seem to have a state capacity greater than all the other Middle East states combined.
And while this is amplified by US support, Israeli's military is much more effective than the U.S. per dollar. And of course diplomacy is a skill too. Sucking up to the US is a useful strategy. Iran should try it.
What's Iran going to do now? Lob another 300 slow-moving drones into Israel so that Israel can shoot down 299 of them? One of these countries matters. The other is a joke.
It's as if someone asked Netanyahu if he planned to just fight every country that challenges Israel, and he just replied with that Mediterranean Chad gif.
Even if we accept the propaganda that they shot every drone down, it's still a clear Iranian victory. They forced Israel to use far more resources to defend themselves than Iran lost attacking. Most of those drones are hardly worth an hour of keeping a fighter jet in the air, let alone the air to air missiles or ludicrously expensive ABMs.
They could fling 3000 drones at Israel and saturate air defences, that's what matters. Hezbollah's forced Israel to abandon much of Northern Israel with it's missile barrages: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/in-israels-evacuated-north-lives-suspended-upended
I think this tweet is a pretty effective summary of the recent direct Iran-Israel hostilities that started with April's missile attack.
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