This is undoubtedly the best analysis I've heard to date of the Iran strike on Israel. It's long-ish (about 10 minutes) but absolutely worth listening to.
The man speaking is Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, very relevant to the topic, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
He's interviewed by @PLottaz, an Associate Professor at Kyoto University in Japan (this is the full video of the interview: https://t.co/zVxAFjDYlb).
What Freeman argues is that Iran's strike "changes all the rules of the game in the Middle-East". The biggest deal for him is that "the Saudis, the Emiratis and others informed the United States that they would not permit American operations against Iran from their territory and Iran warned those states that if they did, they would become targets. So in a sense, Iran has achieved the neutralization of American forces in the Persian gulf that it long sought. So from a tactical military point of view it was a 'nothing burger' - nobody was killed, nobody was damaged - [...] but from a strategic point of view, from a soft power point of view, it was a huge success. Iran accomplished its objective and it left Israel with an intolerable dilemma. Israel cannot continue to behave as though it can act with impunity."
It’s hard to overstate what a massive miscalculation it was for Biden to yoke his presidency, and our country’s security, to a corrupt authoritarian racist whose only hope of political survival is prolonging the Gaza war as long as possible. https://t.co/lhjGHk5wne
100 days of the war on Gaza. More than 23000 Palestinians killed by Israeli bombardment mostly civilians in addition to more than 7000 missing under the rubble of destroyed homes. 10000 children are killed or missing.
62000 Palestinians injured.
My heart is deeply broken for losing more two of my colleagues and friends in an Israeli air strike.
One of them is the bigger son of @WaelDahdouh Hamza
That’s enough
Activists in Oslo interrupted the National Opera tonight with support for Palestine - to resounding applause from the audience.
Free Palestine!
Dr. Mads
As anti-Zionist Jews, we’re doing everything we can to stop the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza and stand in solidarity with Palestinians struggling for their freedom. We all have a part to play when it comes to ending Israeli apartheid and oppression. 🧵
The case against Israel for the crime of genocide is absolutely devastating.
It's been filed by South Africa, and it presents a terrifying body of evidence to justify the claim.
I've gone through the document to explain what it says - and why the world must know about it.
If you'd contemplated the victim's face and thought, you would have remembered your mother in the gas chamber, you would have liberated yourself from the rifle's wisdom and changed your mind: this isn't how identity is reclaimed!
We thank South Africa for its relentless solidarity with Palestine and we appreciate its decision to present the case of Israeli war crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza to the international court of Justice.
#Netanyahu is a PSYCHOPATH & a #WarCriminal along with his extreme right wing Government such as #ItamarBenGvir & #Smotrich.
Why is the World just sitting & watching these SICKOS Exterminate Innocent Defenceless #Palestinian Men, Women & Children?
ARREST THESE BARBARIANS NOW!!
A Palestinian home is being torn down and the land will be given to a Jew likely from Brooklyn
These illegal settlements are being funded by American Tax dollars and large donors like Jared Kushner
The neighbors said they heard people shouting from the apartment asking for help when the apartment was targeted. They think that these completely burned bodies belong to them. No one was able to help them in time.
I can’t keep filming this anymore. Someone stop this please.
Israel pushes Palestinians into smaller spaces, chokes them with settlements and soldiers, or just deprives them, even its citizens, of rights to land, water and resources, imposing economic terror and attrition, creating a coercive environment that promotes “voluntary” transfer.