Iran's intelligence minister Esmail Khatib killed in air strike.

From old age?

Keep waiting

Say hello to Prime Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.  Be careful what you wish for.

nice Norm

They could do a LEGO Epstein list set as well. Part of the 2026 collection.

I didn’t know Iran was actively invading the rest of the Middle East and conducting genocide of certain minority groups.

In a vacuum, I would not particularly condemn the destruction of air power that could fall into the hands of people that not that long ago were affiliated with al-Qaeda and have not proven to not be a threat. Everyone at the time was treating the new Syrian government with a degree of doubt at the beginning. The land grab is bullshit, yeah, but I find it hard to fault them for not wanting pretty decent fighter jets to be operational right at their doorstep and in the hands of potential hostiles. Their policy since the 60s has been to not let this sort of thing build up, and it's not been particularly without reason.

They took strategic high ground which they've been shelled from in the past, I recall they also grabbed some buffer land too. As for eliminating Syria's military equipment and infrastructure? Well, yeah. Geopolitically they're not playing the game wrong.

Israel's entire history is based on unjustifiable land grabs. For a country that says it just wants to be left alone, they had no problem with occupying the Sinai peninsula during the Suez Crisis, which was a dispute between Egypt, Britain and France. And were also surprisingly highly involved in conflicts and dictatorships in Africa. Had no qualms with invading Lebanon during their civil war (which gave rise to the formation of Hezbollah) and zero issues with taking more land off a war torn Syria when it was clear there was no threat from an exhausted country that posed no serious military threat to Israel. They basically follow Russia's doctrine to a T, but only one of those two countries ever faces any consequences for it. 

Assad made a deal with Israel about that land, their was a security zone where the two militaries were not allowed. It was a buffer zone to prevent more conflict. After assad fell, and since syria had never agreed to any peace with israel... israel made a decision. They would rather prevent harm, and it was absolutely a risk that syrian revolutionary forces might willingly target civilians. It would hold that border zone, set its military up there, and wait for the new syrian government to honor that previous agreement. If the Syrians agreed, then Israel would return to the earlier positions... if Syrians decided they wanted to get more involved in another war, then Israel was already in a better position to defend against such attacks. Syria started slaughtering alawites and druze, israel has a large druze population, who's families are being targeted and killed... you would be lying if you thought syria's military killing civilians was "doing nothing against Israel"... you would be turning the druze against the israeli government... Israelis want peace with the druze... so they protected them. Makes sense if you didnt want all the syrian druze killed, right? During the assad slaughter of his people, syrians who needed medical attention, were saved by israeli doctors and hospitals, who treated syrian men, women and children who had never seen an israeli jew before, but were told propaganda of how evil they are from Assad's forces.

Ah yes, history began, checks notes, 3 years ago.

Uhmmm... Defending itself and retaliating from the people who illegally and offensively bombed them first???? What the hell is happening here, does anyone have any comprehension of this region besides "my side good, their side bad" or "when we do it it's good, but when they do the same it's bad"

Don't waste your breath here, it's mostly just nonsensical extremist shit.

Buddy. We don’t use our brains around here.

It doesn't make sense from a rational viewpoint but Israel seems to be going for a "maximum overreaction" strategy to make their neighbors scared of them, so it could make sense from that viewpoint.

Isn't Israel's goal to destabilize middle-east? Chaos is a ladder kind-of thinking.

Let’s hope

Well the supposed second video of him was in a closed cafe and looked fake af so we can only hope.

Oh yes, I can see the downvotes. I must be an anti-Semite.