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submitted 2 months ago by Linkerbaan@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

Iran on Tuesday launched a major missile attack on Israel, firing scores of rockets as air raids have sounded off in all parts of the country.

Sounds of explosions were heard in the cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The attack comes several days after Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a massive strike on southern Beirut, and comes amid Israeli cross border raids into Lebanon.

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[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

Another night of wondering whether I'll wake up to WW3 tomorrow.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 34 points 2 months ago

The good news is that afterward, some redneck drunkard scientist with a spare Titan II missile somewhere in Montana will give us warp drive.

[-] j0j0@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Huh what

What's the reference of this

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

in star trek, humans invent warp drive in a ship based on an old missile after ww3

[-] geolaw@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Star Trek movie. I forget which one.

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

First Contact

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

WW3 technically started in 1947

[-] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 months ago

Iran has the right to defend itself

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago

This is ABSURD! Only ISRAEL is Allowed to Defend itself!

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was about to post that a US official said a strike from Iran was imminent

I didn't realize "imminent" meant just 3 hours...

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Link to video of one of the barrages

Another video link POV of Nevatim Airbase getting bombed

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Good, and justified

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago

Is this gonna start world war 3?

[-] protist@mander.xyz 21 points 2 months ago

Not likely. How many similar Middle East conflicts have already happened since WWII? Why would this one be different

[-] HorseRabbit 4 points 2 months ago

They're both nuclear powers.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Nuclear powers are famous for lobbing nukes, right

[-] HorseRabbit 1 points 2 months ago

At least one of them is.

[-] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

We've been sliding into it for months.

[-] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

No we are not lol the middle east has been fighting for... Most of world history at this point

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

This somehow sounds racist. Does world history mean after WW2? Also I'm more inclined to say "middle east has been under attack" instead of fighting.

[-] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago

On what planet is that racist? That geographical region has been unstable for most of world history. Zero further implication. I'm trying to not be an asshole about this, but accusing someone of being racist is a real dick move when even Wikipedia has to divide its pages on the topic into different eras.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"List of modern conflicts in the Middle East", wdym world history?

I'm not accusing you and I apologise if it looked like that, I'm just asking you directly. I see a lot of comments like "nuke middle east" from rw nutjobs idk why this reminded me of that. I apologise.

[-] sandbox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I guess it’s a bit of a lazy summary, because it sort of implies that the region has been fighting among itself just for reasons, rather than the region being conflict prone because of colonialist foreign policy. I wouldn’t say it’s racist though.

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