Krismas:
The Iran that fought Iraq is not d same as this Iran. America dat cudnt defeat the Taliban and Assad want to defeat Iran? Israel that was chased out of Lebanon by ordinary Hisbollah want to fight Iran? U funny. Blinken is begging all over the Middle East cod America is SCARED! But unfortunately for Blinken the actors are more now than the Arab league leaders. Iran, Taliban Turks, Russia Pakistan how many people Blinken wan beg?? He go beg beg tyre

Anybody that says USA could not defeat Taliban and or Russia cannot defeat Ukraine, I don't take them seriously. Sadly you are one of them.

Much of every other thing you mentioned is just a circus that deserve no response.
He said America could not defeat Assad
Let Syria and or Afghanistan as state actors declare war on America then we'll know if the USA can defeat them or not. Mentioning non state actors that hide behind walls to fight that they could not be defeated show how comic you sound.

Israel has been attacking Iranian assets for close to a decade which is an encroachment on them. What is stopping them from declaring war on Israel? Israel has dropped over 6,000 bombs on Gaza, what is stopping Iran from declaring war on Israel rather report them to the UN.
You mentioned "Russia" somewhere in your comment too Russia hates terrorists as much as Israel.
You said Taliban Taliban that has not finished dealing with earthquake.
Some of you just love hiding behind one finger to make yourselves look good. Anthony Blinken is begging. Egypt, Saudi, UAE etc the most powerful blocs in the region in terms of military and economy receives billions of dollars from the US in military aid annually.

Goodbye note: Israel has a full nuclear triad with first strike policy if the homeland is threatened.

Edusouls:
guy Iran bad for Middle East even USA cannot even dare to invade them na suicide for USA, why do u think USA is sending troops, strike groups and aircraft carriers to the Middle East, Biden would visit on Wednesday, blinken is running up and down in the Middle East begging for peace, 2000 marine would be deployed towards that place in the coming days, just cos of one nation IRAN, fear them brother

My brother, you are not getting the point. The US is actually doing that to intimidate them because they are not on the same level, that is the point I am trying to point out. Like I made clear in my lead post, it is nonsensical for any one to bring Iran into the discourse of global power play where the likes of US is fishing. Iran is a local champion and not even a regional power. There's no power metric that Iran is leading in the middle east. They are not the biggest regional economy and certainly not the strongest military where the likes of economic blocs like the UAE and Israel in terms of military. Iran that could not even tame Iraq.
This is not an attempt to downgrade them because they have a resilient population and have some very good scientists but seeing people use them to measure d!ck with the likes of the US and Israel is really annoying.

Israel has been bombing their assets in Syria for years now, what did they do, nothing. They could not even shoot down one Israeli plane in Syrian territory not to talk of attacking the homeland of Israel.
Even the smallest man on earth can inflict injuries on his opponent that's why Iran has been left alone and again, breaking Iran down will create serious regional problems because it would be a hotbed of terrorism. Iran is sponsoring terrorist groups and imagine a scenario where there is no strong government in place in Iran, terrorism will escalate to a bigger level.

To your last paragraph. The US secretary of state visiting Arab capitals or begging for peace in your words is not because of the fear of Iran. The US simply do not want a crack on the leverage and influence they have over those Arab countries because of the actions of Israel in Gaza. Everyone knows Israel is collectively punishing all the people of Gaza because of the actions of Hamas. In a scenario like that, not even the enemies of Hamas would like it because innocent people are suffering for the actions of a few. The US is just trying to keep their influence and further isolate Iran from those countries. Egypt especially and Saudi Arabia receives the highest military aid from the US annually so your guess is good as mine.

Those terrorists just want their land to be reduced to a parking lot.
Small water wey dem on for dem yesterday now to save dem from dry throat, dem don start again.
Pray for Gaza pray for Gaza but Hamas is still shooting rockets from Gaza. Maybe they are hoping on Iran to save them.

Iran that's a joke. Their top military general was light up in broad day light like a common criminal. What did they do, they made noise of retaliation for over a week. When they finally did, they could not even direct their missiles properly, had to shoot down their own plane. Then fired some rickety missiles to a US scrapyard that was only able to cause minor headaches to the scrap collectors in the military base.

Imagine a foreign country toast the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the US military in a broad day light. That country would be history.
It was done to Iran the noise makers that are only good in sponsoring terrorists. Their serving General that was only second to the Ayatollah in terms of influence.

Even Ayatollah himself had to come out and deny Iranian involvement in the Hamas attack because clearly he knows he would be among the first to receive hell fire missile on his head gear.
Israel is baiting them with "intelligence failure" and they are dancing. Why people even mention Iran in global power play beats me especially where the likes of US is fishing.

wonder233:
"allah kaboom"? I just realized I was wasting my time with an illiterate roadside simpleton. I have nothing else to say to you. We're clearly worlds apart intellectually

Get out.

Thank God you realized early enough you are wasting your time because I really do not care about you or your opinion.

The 'mansion intellectual' that was foolish enough to dismiss another's opinion as "rubbish" in a public forum. You can massage your ego while you slowly go to sleep

Ayodekfarms:
People are talking about how Israel is bombarding Gaza but failed to acknowledge that Hamas has fired more than 4000 rockets to Israel but for the help of Iron some.

God will bless you a million and more times for saying this. People rarely even talk about this.

Imagine a scenario where there is no Iron Dome in Israel, they would have suffered as much as the people of Gaza are suffering now.
Hamas has fired 7,000 or more rockets into Israel in the last seven days and what if they all actually hit their targets. Those rockets are not even intended for military targets as they fire them in any direction they deem fit with the intention of causing maximum damage.

ncoolsome:




But u forgot after the north has been cleared they would be moved back from the south to the North to completely clear that area of Hamas..

Yes, Hamas will be cleared so Palestinians can have some sense of normality.
The idea is to completely destroy their network of tunnels beginning from the North. Hamas does not care about anybody except themselves. They don't respect or acknowledge the UN recognized Palestinian Authority. Hamas has fired close to a hundred thousand rockets in the last seven to ten years, imagine the cost but they are rarely known for any social services in Gaza despite being the ruling authority there.

Almost every unbiased person know Israel is high handed on Palestinians for their own security claims but people excusing terrorism for the Palestinian cause should never be condoned.
Imagine a scenario where there is no iron dome in Israel and the over 7,000 rockets they've fired in the last one week actually hit their targets. Israel would have suffered as much as the people in Gaza are suffering now, not to talk of the over a thousand people they massacred in their sleep.

Those rockets they keep on firing is not to salute Israel, they are intended to kill people. The rockets are not even intended for military targets but they shoot them in any direction. Hamas should do something to protect their own civilians as much as Israel is doing to protect theirs.

wonder233:
They were not heading anywhere in their quest for a sovereign state. The land was being taken piece by piece with the expansion of Israeli settlements. Stop being a hypocrite by pretending you didn't know that. If Mandela hadn't formed a militant arm of the ANC and orchestrated attacks and other sabotages against the white occupiers, there wouldn't have been no South Africa today. Yes, their actions led to lots of deaths of blacks by the more powerful white occupiers, but it ultimately led to the end of apartheid. Mandela's ANC was designated a terrorist organisation up until 2008. Stop coming here capping rubbish just because of misguided religious brainwashing.

You are talking nonsense.

You think I care about your religion or any religion for that matter.
You said so many things but ended up saying nothing.
Using Mandela and his ANC as a parallel shows that you are saying nonsense. It is only a terrorist or a closet one that will compare ANC to that of Hamas.

In one breath you said their quest for a sovereign state was not heading anywhere and then in another, I suppose they are now heading somewhere after killing people in their sleep.
Tell me where Mandela killed thousands in their sleep then we can have this conversation.

If a few persons needed to be sacrificed then why are you and others crying here and there.
You think it is every Palestinian that care about Hamas and or if they need to be sacrificed.

It is even idiotic to think every or any comment considered to be in favour of Israel is because of religion. I thought some of you said Hamas and their activities has nothing to do with religion but always find it convenient to tag any support for Israel to be religious driven. Isn't Hamas spurred on by religion especially when they echo their famous allah kaboom before slitting throats?

Iamgrey5:
That's my point.

Iranian speak only Arabic language today not Persain language.

Reality is majority of the countries in the Lavent (Jordan, Lebanon etc) were not Arabs but have been influenced greatly by Arabic culture over the decades.

The civilization of those Countries is much advance than Arabic civilization.

the bold is not correct.

Iranians speak Farsi as their major language which is Persian. Arabic is just one of the other languages spoken in Iran.

Iranians speak only Arabic ke

ChatterHouse:
As a Muslim I feel so sad that the so-called people we call kaffr are the ones accommodating Muslim even providing humanitarian services to us

Egypt refused to accept Palestinians refugee even as country of the same faith

Every Muslim suppose to defend and pray for Isreal
Isreal have the right to defend itself

Its because they have a lot of Islamic fundamentalists. Egypt and co are not ready to risk infiltration and more so, those their hardliners are known for trying to topple governments just as they almost tried it in Jordan and Lebanon.

Palestinians deserve to be treated better though just like every other free peoples' but they must purge themselves of hardline terrorists. Imagine Hamas has fired more than hundred thousand rockets in the last ten years, imagine the cost yet they are rarely known for providing social services for the people of Gaza they claim to love while most of their leaders are dining with 72 virgins in the UAE, Malaysia, Qatar

Putin should tell the world how he has been negotiating with Ukraine in the past one year, despite the fact that Ukraine has not attacked mainland Russia even in the face of Putin raining bombs on them.

Putin is the king of oppression and champion of annexing smaller countries.
Just to add, this man is as bad as the US that some terrorists sympathizers love to eulogize especially the third world goons.

The UN Resolution that approved intervention in Libya, Saint Putin that closet terrorists in Nigeria love to praise, alongside China, Brazil, India, Germany decided to abstain from voting despite holding veto power which made the Security Council Mandate ten members for, and zero members against.
At the end, they blame the US for destroying Libya when indeed the "No Fly-Zone" was proposed by the permanent representative of Lebanon to the UN under advisement of the Arab League

Hamas just offered northern Gaza to Israel on a platter.

Cartographers should just go and draw a new map for Palestine.
The terrorist group just dragged the Palestinian quest for a sovereign state 50 years backward with their actions.

Jeyun:
na still u go still come here dey shout isael is commiting genocide. U see that genocide Israel dey ready for am now Gaza must become a dessert and finally annexed

na so dem be na. Behind the curtain they were all happy that Hamas attacked and slaughtered people in Israel. It is still that grin that's pushing them to make statements like that because they have to glorify Hamas by all means even if they have to sound illogical.

They are about glorifying Hamas and their terror activities. It is the only reason they are now mocking Israel not to have finished Hamas in 3 days and at the same time criticizing Israel for dropping bombs on Gaza

FreeStuffsNG:
This is an afterthought by Israel because the world is concerned that they are killing civilians.

This is a testament to what the world can do to save lives of innocent people on both sides. Isreal has been accused of genocide and this effort is the way Isreal is adjusting. It's a good step by Israel but it is not enough and it came late. Check my signature for free stuffs!

While Israel may have killed civilians in the crossfire, this is not the first time they are giving warning before striking buildings.

They have been doing it not just in this present conflict but in previous ones too. They even send text messages of warnings of up to 5-10 minutes that the neighborhood or building is targeted for destruction. While the time may not be enough in most cases for people to properly evacuate, they do it nonetheless because they don't want to give the enemy they are targeting ample time to evacuate their operational assets.

Unfortunate civilians are dying though which must be prevented by all means possible but this round is solely on Hamas

Beuberry:

You are still a muslim ass licker.

He is not a Muslim ass licker. He is a Muslim just hiding behind one finger

Congratulations

Do well to shun corruption even though it is too much to ask from lawyers

sweerychick:
I'm beginning to think that the only way to hustle for appointment in this Tinubu regime is to bring Igbos into it.

100%

Apologies to Igbo people but I think most of the people someone can point to as leaders over there are stupid.
Why drag an entire region or ethnic group to a personal political decision that he made, and quite sadly, they all do same thing when they cross to the other side.

Nigeria is a multi party democracy and not every one is expected to vote for one candidate. Additionally, not voting for a particular candidate does not mean a certain region or ethnic group should not be part of the government. The narrative that giving a statutory appointment to some persons from a region that did not vote for the government in power hence should be grateful is a very backward and nauseating mentality.

It is either they give their ethnic group collective insult to please other people in their private political dealings or they just find a way to always drag their region to a place where others will collectively look down on them.
Umahi Umahi Umahi....shey that one don transform south east to Las Vegas abi wetin by being works minister? Like that's a statutory position for christ sake...

Igbo people should warn their leaders to stop ridiculing them outside.

Corn247:
My fear is, if Palestine eventually get their sovereign country, they will show Isreal and their enemies pepper.

Just look at what those rig tag fighters are idoing to world powers upon all the blackade and surveillance

Exactly the reason Israel and other partners are no longer interested in the two states solution they initially agreed to in 1948, which unfortunately the Palestinians and other Arab countries rejected then.

Give Palestine independence, it would become the archdiocese of terrorism in the world. Imagine with their disorganized manner and they they are causing havoc like this then imagine what they would do with state backing and with instruments of state. Iran would be a child's play since Hamas is committed to ending Israel or converting them to Islam.

The US will continue to veto any attempt made by the UN to grant them a state of their own.

seunmsg:


Is Isreal willing to accept her 1948 borders as proposed by the UN in the original declaration? Isreal has already occupied over 60% of the land proposed for a two state solution. So, who is the problem?

You have to first of all acknowledge the error you made when you said in your lead post that it was Israel that rejected the UN Resolution for a two state solution in 1948.

Now to your present question. Israel will not accept the original borders of 1948 in a two state solution now because the conditions under which they accepted it before has changed. We are talking of over fifty years and a lot has happened with countless wars in between.
As long as the right of Israel to exist is not recognized especially by this terror group Hamas and others, Israel will continue to occupy them. Again, the way some commentators talk as though the Jewish people/Israel is totally alien to that land is mind-boggling and deceptive. Palestinians and the Jewish people lived on that land through several conquests - from Babylon, Egypt to Persia to the Roman's, the Ottoman empire etc. While it is through that the Palestinians own majority of the land, it is far from being true that the Jews just migrated from Europe to a place that is entirely new to them.

I support the call for an independent state for the Palestinians but he right for Israel to exist must be respected as well and they have a genuine reason to worry over the growing rhetoric that Israel must die for Palestine to live especially among those terrorists groups hiding under the quest for a sovereign state. Hamas even see this as more of a religious problem than political or cultural.

Excerpts from the Hamas Covenant of 1988:

TemplarLandry:

I know you are waiting to dedicate one of your 'yeye' songs

BentizilL0:

Their aim is to be heard and they were heard, this is just the beginning...

How can a sovereign Palestine be occupied by Israel??
Even after occupying their land, you blockade the remaining small land Palestine occupied by land, air and sea and bomb them whenever you feel like even after kidnapping their sons for speaking out...

This is pure injustice and daylight robbery.
Do you know Palestine was in league of nation when there was no Israel??
Israel begged Palestine to accommodate them after Hitler expelled them from Europe..

Chai, posterity will judge those that support Jew injustice against the Palestine people, you cannot be against apartheid South Africa and support Israel apartheid in Palestine...

Palestinians have a noble reason to demand for an independent state, but stop misleading the public.
Palestine was and has never been a sovereign country. Infact the "State of Palestine" was only declared by Arafat, leader of the PLO in 1988. Palestine only came close to becoming a sovereign state in 1948 when the UN Resolution declared a "two state", state of Palestine and state of Israel. The Palestinians rejected it and with the support of the Arab League decided to go to war which they lost.

Before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, that vast expanse of land which includes Gaza, the West Bank etc was ruled by the Ottoman Empire until it was ceased from them by the British after the first World War. I don't want to write a long epistle but....

Palestine or whatever name that preceded it "was and has never been a sovereign country"

The agenda of Hamas right from its creation from the Muslim Brotherhood has been a religious agenda. It is people that are sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians that deflect attention from that fact. A quick look at the Hamas Covenant of 1988 will perhaps cure that deliberate amnesia.

While the Palestinian cause is a noble one and not all about religion, Hamas is like ISIS in disguise, hiding behind the quest for Palestinian independence to fight a religious war.

Excerpts from the Hamas Covenant

Properly edit your article OP. IDF is not a military in Africa

omoredia:


I cannot be fooled. Egypt will not support Israel over other muslims even if they are terrorists

Egypt not supporting Hamas does not automatically translate to they supporting Israel. It is not a case of "if you are not here, then you are there"

Egypt supports the Palestinians quest for an independent state and totally recognize the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abass in Ramallah.
Hamas was a sect in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt before they ceased control of Gaza in 2007 from their rival political party Fatah.
Egypt has far outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and by extension, not fans of Hamas and their hard-line Islamic ideology.
Again, I never alluded to whether Egypt is supporting Israel against Palestinians, far from it. They are not just fans of Hamas.
Same way Turkey sees the Kurdish PKK and YPG is same way Egypt sees Hamas - but not necessarily meaning they support Israel against Palestinians.

omoredia:
Thats a lie and a poor attempt to distract. Will Egypt support Israel over Hamas terrorists?

It may be a lie or not.

But Egypt has specifically never supported Hamas. Egypt sees it as a terrorist organization too because of its ties with other terror groups tormenting Egypt most especially the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

sotall:


One question i am yet to find an answer to is "Aside Israel blockade, why are Palestinians also blockaded by Egypt?"

If Palestinians weren't trouble makers and terrorists, why are they also blockaded by Egypt?

Finally, someone has looked beyond the traditional confrontation between Israel and Gaza. Stunningly most people here don't know or simply ignore the fact that the blockade over Gaza since 2007 is by Israel and Egypt, one of the most powerful countries in the Arab League.

Simply put, Egypt never supported Hamas when they sacked the rival party (Fatah) that was running Gaza until 2007 because it would grow the influence of Iran in Gaza. Fatah was less confrontational, more diplomatic in the Palestinian cause. They recognize the state of Israel but want a Palestinian state according to the borders in 1948. Conversely, Hamas does not recognize Israel but want a State according to the borders in 1948. Fatah has a secular ideology while Hamas has an Islamic ideology. They both want same end product but with different means and methods. Now Egypt....

Gaza was under Egyptian control from 1948 to 1967 when they lost it to Israel after the Arab-Israeli war. Israel equally ceased control of the West Bank from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. Gaza was only returned to the control of the Palestinian Authorities around early 90s I think.
The only border crossing that is not blocked by Israel is the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt. Like I said before, the reason they gave for blocking it among other issues is to stop the influence of Iran and the belief that it would undermine the recognized Palestinian Authority if Hamas is left to operate. But behind the scene, most people agree Egypt does not want to draw the ire of Israel because that crossing was a big weapons smuggling route into Gaza. Additionally, Hamas has this big romance with many other terrorist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood and others that torment Egypt, they have links with Hezbollah, another terrorist organization that is not very popular among sane Arab nations. Egypt is just trying to protect itself from those terrorists at the same time, not allowing Hamas to draw it into any confrontation with Israel.

Forgive the many things I said. To answer your question in a nutshell. Egypt is not really in support of Hamas and the way they go about their business especially after they sacked Fatah political party. The political party of the Palestinian Authority that is internationally recognized.
Besides that, everyone knows Hamas is a terrorist organization like the defunct Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt except for their fellow terrorists that refuse to acknowledge that fact.

P.S

Palestine deserve a state of their own even though they foolishly threw away the opportunity in 1948 after being misled by the Arab League. The big question is, will they be quiet, civil after a state is granted to them or use same platform to orchestrate terrorist activities like Iran and co against Israel and other perceived enemies

sukkot:
what date was the peace concert ? send me link about it

He used wrong words. It was not a peace concert.
It was a festival concert marking Jewish holiday

zeedof:
How I wish this Israel and Russia shared border.. make we know who strong pass

Israel and Russia actually have a good relationship

obedience4:



True,
I meant to say a carrier is NoT Just a big defenseless ship,
A carrier itself is well capable of destroying drones with its 5inch guns

Spot on

lekanation:
It's Russia against 50 countries.. With your theory of being the strongest country in the world is false until usa fight countries like Russia, china and north korea.

Assuming the position of strongest country in the world goes beyond armaments. War has gone beyond the traditional level of just taking weapons to kill each other. Economy, technology, strategic relationships etc play a vital role in modern warfare.

The USA is arguably the only country in the world that its mainland cannot be successfully invaded just like I stated in my lead post.
At present, of all the boxes that determine a powerful country, the USA not only ticks all but do so far above every other country.
Even in battle experience, they arguably have it in abundance than every other country because the USA is basically fighting war every year whether symmetrical/asymmetrical.

This is not an attempt to downgrade Russia and other superpowers but "power" in the real sense of it in this present civilization, the USA is ahead of the pack and everyone knows it.
Have you wondered why more and most countries including almost equally powerful ones like Germany, UK, France etc listen to the US without the US pointing a gun to their heads? There is something that makes them listen...

The US and Russia avoiding each other in theatres of conflict does not mean one is stupid. It is for the good of all.

To your last statement, why would the USA fight Russia or China to prove they are the strongest? What is the strategic benefit in doing that when those opponents already know.
Please don't mention North Korea in global powerful discourse especially where the likes of US and Russia is discussed.
Be like some of una dey overwhelmed with this idea of nuclear weapons o. Pakistan has nuclear weapons but some of you don't always mention them since your metric for who is a powerful country is the possession of nuclear weapons

lekanation:
make Dem send their ship to Russia I wan check something

You should rather go and check what happened after Russia threatened the West not to send weapons of war to Ukraine to kill servicemen that there would be grave consequences. US sent artillery weapons and is still sending till date.

Go and check what happened.

I don't know why it is difficult for some people to understand Russia and the US may never engage themselves in war, not because one is stronger than the other but because of the the damage it will do to the world.

Right to say; no single country on earth can fight the US and win. The US is the single most powerful country in the world by a mile under any parameter.
Russia is a very powerful country, the US respects that. The US is the most powerful country, Russia knows that too

Viridis:

I don't know why anybody will still be supporting Hamas after this.
But Israel fall my hand big time. Where all those their fancy weapons that their defense company keep producing all the time. All those fancy strike drones and co and I also thought there citizens carry arms around. How are Hamas dropping paratroopers in to there country and some people are even videoing.
Are they not supposed to be shot down before they drop

It is the reason no government in America can tamper with 2nd amendment rights. Imagine as far back as 1939, Isoroku Yamamoto saying 'no country on earth can invade the US mainland and succeed, that there is a rifle behind every blade of grass'
No one can invade the US mainland in this commando style and succeed as such entity will have an army of civilians to deal with. War grade infantry weapons in the hands of ordinary Americans may surpass that of some national countries.

In the coming days we will understand what truly went wrong with Israeli intelligence. Even after the infiltration, IDF was even very slow in its response. Hamas having time to even make videos tells a bleak story of the extent of intelligence and response failure on the part of Israel.
I hope this event will teach them a lesson to take their security even more seriously and cease forthwith the needless political squabbles and protests in their country