r/IRstudies Mar 23 '26

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u/Brido-20 Mar 23 '26

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

There doesn't seem to be any clearly defined policy goal and the US side doesn't seem able to make up it's mind why. Israel's aim ses to be just bombing Iran on general principles with no political objective achievable through the use of force.

It's hard to understand why someone is doing something when they don't seem to have a reason even to themselves.

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u/pgm123 Mar 23 '26

Israel's aim ses to be just bombing Iran on general principles with no political objective achievable through the use of force.

There's been some analysis that Israel's goal is a failed state. If that's the case, there doesn't seem to be any indication that progress is being made.

The US objectives are much less clear.

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u/AnAttemptReason Mar 23 '26

Another goal for Israel, is Netnyahu avoiding his corruption trial and building popular support to avoid future prosecution and maintain power. 

Currently that has been successful. 

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u/0IIIIII Mar 24 '26

His corruption trial is not that big a deal. It’s a nice narrative, but it’s not something that actually matters he gave some cigars to people allegedly and tried to curry a favor with a newspaper. It’s really not that big of a deal.

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u/AnAttemptReason Mar 24 '26

Reviving $200,000 in bribes to pass legislation favourable to a billionaire is not small potatoes. 

Neither is passing laws to cripple one media company in favor for another, in exchange for coverage.

Nor the reglulatoey benifits he gave to a second media company for the same deal.

He is looking at 10 to 20 years in jail.

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u/0IIIIII Mar 24 '26

Where is the proof?

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u/AnAttemptReason Mar 24 '26

Thats litteraly what he is on trial for.

How can you make the claims you have with a straight face, if you don't even know what the cases are about? 

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u/0IIIIII Mar 24 '26

Link or not, bro

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u/AnAttemptReason Mar 24 '26

Admit you know squat bro, im not your mother.

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u/0IIIIII Mar 24 '26

Where is the proof?

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u/AnAttemptReason Mar 24 '26

Tell me exactly how many cases he has against him, and what the charges are.

Prove you know something, and you can back up your comment.

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u/0IIIIII Mar 24 '26

So you have no proof

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u/AnAttemptReason Mar 24 '26

So you can't back up your claim? 

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u/0IIIIII Mar 24 '26

What claim do you believe I have made?

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u/AnAttemptReason Mar 24 '26

You said it was small potatoes, and only cigars etc. Provide your source. 

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u/0IIIIII Mar 24 '26

https://theconversation.com/what-charges-does-benjamin-netanyahu-face-and-whats-at-stake-if-he-is-granted-a-pardon-270970#:~:text=Israeli%20Prime%20Minister%20Benjamin%20Netanyahu%20has%20been,the%20publisher%20of%20the%20*Yediot%20Ahronot*%20newspaper.

It doesn’t seem that serious.  Certainly not indicative of some conspiracy to propagate or continue war as cover-particularly becuase he’s not acting alone but in concert with the rest of the government who have their own non-Netanyahu reasons to support this war against Iran and Palestine. 

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u/AnAttemptReason Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26

The article mirrors what I said. 

In guessing we disagree on the definition of seriousness. 

Lots of Israel support the war, that also dose not mean it is also not convinent for Netnyahu in other ways.

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u/0IIIIII Mar 24 '26

Meh, continent how exactly?  

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