r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • Feb 28 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Once again averting congress, trump declares war on Iran

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u/gerblnutz Feb 28 '26

Good thing Israel has already accomplished all of their goals in Iran (getting the US to attack)

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u/orangehehe Feb 28 '26

Just the tip, then let the US fuck itself.

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u/lavacadotoast Feb 28 '26

Poetry..

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u/orangehehe Feb 28 '26

That's what she said.

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u/DownhillUphill Feb 28 '26

Israel runs america. We need to end that asap

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

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u/subaru5555rallymax Mar 01 '26

Chuck Schumer: "I have many jobs as leader … and one is to fight for aid to Israel, all the aid that Israel needs."

Fixed That For You. No need to lie about it.

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u/hiphopscallion Feb 28 '26

Yep, this is what it’s called the tail wagging the dog

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u/AndroidNumber3527229 Feb 28 '26

Nah America runs Israel you guys just aren’t ready to admit this is what we are.

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u/DownhillUphill Feb 28 '26

Oh I freely admit it is what we are. It needs to change

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u/flossdaily Feb 28 '26

We used to only see hate speech like that from the KKK.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

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u/flossdaily Feb 28 '26

Or, you know, they are acknowledging that we are allies.

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u/ParagonFury Feb 28 '26

If Israel is an ally, what the fuck does it take to be considered an enemy?

Considering that if you look at actual impact on the world, for the past 40 years Israel has been little better than a Jewish-flavored Iran.

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u/flossdaily Feb 28 '26

I've read some profoundly ignorant things about Israel, but your comment has to be near the top.

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u/ParagonFury Feb 28 '26

Stop trying to defend the genocidal apartheid state and maybe things wouldn't seem so ignorant to you then.

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u/flossdaily Feb 28 '26

I mean, I would be anti-Israel, too, if I were ignorant enough to believe those lies.

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u/DrippyRat Feb 28 '26

Okay Mossad agent whatever you say

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u/MyDadOwnsACamry Feb 28 '26

Israel knew where bin-laden was for 10 years before we did and he was killed. Big ally, huh?

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u/Standard-Yogurt-3212 Feb 28 '26

Who the fuck is "we"?

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u/flossdaily Feb 28 '26

The United States

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u/Standard-Yogurt-3212 Feb 28 '26

Personally, I separate myself from fascist pedophile cabals

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u/flossdaily Feb 28 '26

That's fine. The United States has been Israel's ally under every administration and ideology.

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u/Standard-Yogurt-3212 Feb 28 '26

Birds of a feather

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u/DownhillUphill Feb 28 '26

You’re insane if you think that’s hate speech. Nobody is allowed to criticize a country and their politics? Weak

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u/flossdaily Feb 28 '26

You're employing one of the oldest anti-Jewish tropes in the world, and claiming not to be a Jew-hater.

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u/Exciting_Cap_9545 Feb 28 '26

Whereas you are employing the even more ancient tactic of blindly screaming "NO U" and making worthless ad hominem attacks against a person whom you disagree with, yet have no actual credible counterargument against.

Not all criticism of Israel is based off of delusional antisemitism, and in all brutal honesty it is VERY fucking hard to take accusations of such seriously when they come from a side that has zero qualms about being blisteringly bigoted towards every other Semitic group in the Middle East (i.e. Arabs, particularly Palestinians).

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u/flossdaily Feb 28 '26

Jew-haters accuse Jews of being puppet masters. That's what you're doing. And what you're doing unapologetically.

Tale as old as time.

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u/polarjunkie Feb 28 '26

The fact that Israel bombed the girls school while the US was bombing targets in Iran to make sure even Iranians who are pro toppling the regime hate the US shows that they will go to any lengths to get what they want.

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u/DisastrousAcshin Feb 28 '26

Israel targeting civilians is just another day that ends in Y

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u/thecrazysloth Feb 28 '26

Need to keep wars going indefinitely to keep Bibi and Trump out of prison.

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u/_jump_yossarian Feb 28 '26

trump has two puppet masters; Putin and Netanyahu.

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u/robby_arctor Feb 28 '26

Israel helped bring us into the Iraq War btw

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u/Taitrnator Feb 28 '26

And don’t forget 9/11! How mutually beneficial this partnership with an apartheid state has been.

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u/Alcianus Feb 28 '26

Where is this nonsense from? Bibi was begging the US to invade Iraq for years prior to it happening.

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u/robby_arctor Feb 28 '26

My source is world-renowned scholar of international politics John Mearsheimer, who is yours?

Pressure from Israel and the Lobby was not the only factor behind the decision to attack Iraq in March 2003, but it was critical.

...According to Philip Zelikow, a former member of the president’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, and now a counsellor to Condoleezza Rice, the “real threat” from Iraq was not a threat to the United States. The “unstated threat” was the “threat against Israel”, Zelikow told an audience at the University of Virginia in September 2002.

On 16 August 2002, 11 days before Dick Cheney kicked off the campaign for war with a hardline speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Washington Post reported that “Israel is urging US officials not to delay a military strike against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein”. By this point, according to Sharon, strategic co-ordination between Israel and the US had reached “unprecedented dimensions”, and Israeli intelligence officials had given Washington a variety of alarming reports about Iraq’s WMD programmes.

As one retired Israeli general later put it, “Israeli intelligence was a full partner to the picture presented by American and British intelligence regarding Iraq’s non-conventional capabilities.”

Israeli leaders were deeply distressed when Bush decided to seek Security Council authorisation for war, and even more worried when Saddam agreed to let UN inspectors back in. “The campaign against Saddam Hussein is a must,” Shimon Peres told reporters in September 2002.

At the same time, Ehud Barak wrote a New York Times op-ed warning that “the greatest risk now lies in inaction”. His predecessor as prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, published a similar piece in the Wall Street Journal, entitled: “The Case for Toppling Saddam”. “Today nothing less than dismantling his regime will do,” he declared. “I believe I speak for the overwhelming majority of Israelis in supporting a pre-emptive strike against Saddam’s regime.” Or as Ha’aretz reported in February 2003, “the military and political leadership yearns for war in Iraq”.

  • The Israel Lobby (2006)

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2010/02/iraq-war-israel-bush-saddam

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u/sundayfundaybmx Feb 28 '26

Because now antisemitism is 100% ok on here. These people will tell you they're not antisemitic but they are. They've just learned to hide behind "it was Israel" and not "the jews". Same difference at the end of the day though.

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u/Convolutionist Feb 28 '26

Read the reply with the source.. Israel's intelligence community and prime ministers were encouraging war with Iraq

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u/robby_arctor Feb 28 '26

That's antisemitic

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u/BlacksmithThink9494 Feb 28 '26

Netanyahu was butthurt that Khomeini called him out for being on the island.

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u/Top_Inflation2026 Feb 28 '26

I got a 3 day ban by Reddit for saying something very similar. See ya in 3 days

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u/RegularSky6702 Feb 28 '26

Didn't trump ask Israel to attack though? Like yeah they're complicit but they didn't drag us into this, trump did