Israel is fine, why wouldn't we want to align with them? Better than any of its neighbours.

Reaches for tin hat and closes the hatch.

I did forget about how much SA and UAE both love ... Israel :joker:

So there's been no issue with corruption there?...

Typical mocking response, do you have anything of any merit to add Livia?

Corruption in politics? Well I never.

Not to mention illegal occupation. A detail I suppose. And nothing new for trump after putin.

No you should never, that's the whole point.
Are you saying corruption in politics is good? That it should be expected or accepted?...

I'm saying it's a sad reality. If you can find a country with no corruption in its politics, I'll be pretty impressed.

What corruption are you referring to, from Israel I mean?

It's not my job to educate you... You are so sage as to pontificate on the reality of world politics, then admit you know nothing of the issues Isreal has in relation to their current leader.

The funny thing about israel is they are not that different from Iran
Already orthodox religious parties hold the balance of power in israel. Soon bc of demographics Israel will be majority orthodox. Wave goodbye to democracy and say hello to theocracy. Like Iran.

As global leaders weighed in on the assassination of Iran’s top general, Qassem Suleimani, in a US drone strike in Baghdad in the early hours of Friday, Johnson remained silent on the island of Mustique where he is on holiday with his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds.

Downing Street said Johnson would be back in the UK on Sunday and that the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, would travel to Washington this week for talks with the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, with the Middle East the main topic of discussion. In a sign of irritation that the UK had not already expressed its support for the US, Pompeo on Friday said the Europeans, including “the Brits”, “[had]n’t been as helpful as I wish that they could be”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-assassination




Yes bojo, get your partying done first, start as you mean to go on,
the new churchill, fighting on the beaches of Mustique :laugh:

You cant reason with hate filled murderes who would openly celebrate the loss of innocence American or British lives.

Trump is doing the same as what Obama did when he sent troops to kill bin laden.

Believe it or not we are at war in this country and around the world fighting terrorist who live to kill and show no mercy to men women and children.

US warns it will 'target' 52 Iranian sites if Tehran retaliates...

US warns it will 'target' 52 Iranian sites if Tehran retaliates
France 24 France 24 1 hour 8 minutes ago


US President Donald Trump warned on Saturday that the US is targeting 52 sites in Iran and will hit them “very fast and very hard” if the Islamic republic attacks American personnel or assets.

In a saber-rattling tweet that defended Friday’s US drone strike assassination of a powerful Iranian general in Iraq, Trump said 52 represents the number of Americans held hostage at the US embassy in Tehran for more than a year starting in late 1979.

Trump said some of these sites are “at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!”

Late Saturday night, the president tweeted again, this time warning Iran that the US will hit Iran “harder than they have ever been hit before!”

Trump followed up with another tweet, saying the US would use its “brand new beautiful” military equipment “without hesitation” if the Iranians retaliate.

Trump spoke out after pro-Iran factions ramped up pressure on US installations across Iraq with missiles and warnings to Iraqi troops—part of an outburst of fury over the killing of Qassem Soleimani, described as the second most-powerful man in Iran.

With the Islamic republic promising revenge, his killing was the most dramatic escalation yet in spiraling tensions between Washington and Tehran and has prompted fears of a major conflagration in the Middle East.

In the first hints of a possible retaliatory response, two mortar rounds hit an area near the US embassy in Baghdad on Saturday, security sources told AFP.

Almost simultaneously, two rockets slammed into the Al-Balad airbase where American troops are deployed north of Baghdad, security sources said.

The Iraqi military confirmed the missile attacks in Baghdad and on al-Balad and said there were no casualties. The US military also said no coalition troops were hurt.

With Americans wondering fearfully if, how and where Iran will hit back for the assassination, the US Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin that said “at this time there is no specific, credible threat against the homeland.”

However on Saturday the website of the Federal Depository Library Program, a little-known US government agency, was breached by a group claiming to be linked to Iran, who posted graphics displaying the Iranian flag and vowing revenge for Soleimani’s death.

Separately, US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said in a statement that information given to Congress by Trump, a Republican, “prompts serious and urgent questions about the timing, manner and justification of” the strike.

“The Trump Administration’s provocative, escalatory and disproportionate military engagement continues to put service members, diplomats and citizens of America and our allies in danger,” said Pelosi, a Democrat.

Another prominent democrat, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called the president a “monster”, for “threatening to target and kill innocent families, women and children”.

In a tweet, she said: “This is a war crime.”

..full story...

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/us-warns-t...065012075.html

yeah Trump, as if that will make Iran scared to stand down

lol


Another prominent democrat, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called the president a “monster”, for “threatening to target and kill innocent families, women and children”.

very much agree Alexandria, but they are sadly not seen as victims but more collateral damage in the eyes of president orange moron :sad:


no more drone strikes, but be more effective in sending highly trained special forces down there, same sort of squad who took down Bin Laden, they are quite qualified for this job to take down the bad guys, and no or little collateral damage

Yes Trump has warned Iran
do not attack them
or He will Hit Hard
52 Iranian Sites.

So a Planned counter attack is Trumps
next plan.

This is USA standing alone.
Typical Trump

[Another prominent democrat, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called the president a “monster”,]

Nicky that will only Boost Trump

they can each do as much sabre rattling as they like, it's nothing new. It's only dangerous if it escalates and it takes both sides to do that.

How about all the human rights abuses? Netanyahu's blatant corruption?

I will never chose to align myself with a country that commits regularly and sadistic human rights abuses.

That is categorically wrong.

Obama inherited a war from Bush, his actions in killing Bin Laden were a part of the established war efforts but the US weren't at war with Iran when they attacked the country and Trump didn't get permission from either Congress or the Senate to attack. What he did was an act of war and no amount of lies about this attack being 'retaliation' will change the fact that it was largely an unprovoked act of war.

It doesn't matter what the circumstances were with Iran, Trump acted out of line and without the backing of his own government to kickstart a war to benefit his election campaign.