I think you already tried to say it, but remember Iran attacked an Israeli ship after 12 attacks to Iranians ships in 2020 by Israel. And 4 other Iranian ships were attacked in 2021 which two of them happened after Iran tried to retaliate by attacking an Israeli ship.
Israel clearly believes that the best defense is a good offense, but that strategy makes it harder to have any dialogue or peace.
They are hardly the victim.
That's all the US does, day and night. And they even say this publicly (although always implying that it is a good thing).
Hopefully one day that will change and we can be friends again as no one gains from the conflict.
Israel is a nuclear-armed ethnostate engaging in ethnic cleansing that protects these transgressions by operating as the FOB of the hegemonic world power that doesn't blink an eye at killing a million citizens in the region.
So long as Israel requires US support to safeguard their otherwise untenable position (and to force Arab dictatorships to act favorably towards Israel), Iran and Israel will be opposed.
Iran and Israel were allied before the revolution because the undemocratic government (not that the current one is anymore democratic otherwise) that was willing to act against its interests on the matter so long as the dominant foreign powers required it.
It's categorically false that no one gains from the conflict. Israel gains tremendously from the conflict as the antagonism between Iran and Israel and between Iran and the USA is what justifies its ability to get away with so much.
Not really. They have nothing to quarrel about.
But there is nothing democratic about today's Iran. Theocratic fascists on the other hand need an enemy to distract from complete failure of internal politics and collapsing economy due to spending all their resources on war and funding criminals and terrorists abroad.
I explicitly said they weren't. You're preaching for the choir.
>Not really. They have nothing to quarrel about.
Democratic states still have geopolitical interests. The interests of Israel are vehemently opposed to those of Iran. Thus, Iran and Israel will be in conflict. In fact, foreign policy-wise, democratic states are barely different from dictatorships.
Democracies are just as warmongering as any other. The US and most European countries didn't see any issue in bombing Syria and Libya back to slavery, so why do you think democratic Iran will be any better?
Dictatorships on the other hand don't care about squeezing their own populations to the bone for their war mongering. Well, until the point there is an uprising of course and they are burned down by the angry mob.
I live in Canada. If the constitution of this country specifically said it wasn't for me I would not accept that. If you disagree, that is your right.
also what are their gay pride parades like, and whats their policy on censorship, capital punishment,etc?
As for the other, those are orthogonal to the issues.
You are literally just doing whataboutism, but even worse because you're not whatabouting at the right people.
Now you can argue Israel is also attacking those groups and you wouldn’t be wrong. It’s almost impossible to figure out who started each round. We only ever hear a very small part of the story.
It is a circle of violence that will hopefully one day end.