Could Gaza War spiral into a wider war with Iran?

[Mercenary]

Iranian Made Fajr-5 Rockets fired by Hamas has hit Tel Aviv.

This could dangerously spiral out of control leading into a much wider and regional war with Iran.

BBC News - Gaza crisis: Tel Aviv targeted by missiles

Gaza missiles fired at Tel Aviv

Palestinian militants have attempted to hit Israel's commercial capital, Tel Aviv, with missiles fired from Gaza.

Residents took cover after air raid sirens alerted them to a missile threat for the first time in two decades, but there were no casualties.

Israel's defence minister authorised the call-up of 30,000 reservists.

Three Israelis were killed by rockets from Gaza earlier, while 15 Palestinians have been killed in two days of Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Israel said 274 missiles had been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel since Wednesday afternoon, when an Israeli strike killed the military leader of Hamas, Ahmed Jabari.

While some of those missiles have been intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system, others have hit their targets, including a direct hit on a block of flats in the town of Kiryat Malachi.

Two women and a man living on the top floor were killed.

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said: "This escalation will exact a price that the other side will have to pay."

'Steadfast'

However, Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, condemned what he called Israel's "ferocious assault" against Gaza.

"We here in Gaza will remain steadfast and unshaken," he said in a televised statement. "We will fend off the aggression."

"We are all confident in our intrepid resistance fighters who are now deployed on the front," he said.

Late on Thursday, BBC correspondents in Gaza reported several massive explosions and missile fire in and around Gaza City as Israeli strikes continued.

The two rockets fired at Tel Aviv landed south of the city, in Rishon Lezion, and in the sea.

The armed wing of Islamic Jihad said it had fired an Iranian-built, Fajr-5 rocket at Tel Aviv.

"We have widened the range of the battle to reach Tel Aviv and what is coming will be greater," the group said in a statement.

This is the first time Tel Aviv has been threatened by missiles since the 1991 Gulf War, when missiles fired by Saddam Hussein's Iraq landed in the city.

The Times of Israel website says sirens were also sounded in the Tel Aviv suburbs of Bnei Brak, Givatayim and Ramat Gan.

Many of the 15 Palestinians killed in Gaza during a two-day Israeli aerial and naval bombardment were members of militant groups, but civilians - including four children - were also among the dead.

They included 11-month-old Omar, the son of Jihad Misharawi, a BBC Arabic picture editor.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will do "everything in its power" to avoid civilian casualties in the conflict with Hamas.

But he said Hamas was deliberately placing its rockets and missiles in civilian areas prior to launching them at Israel.

"There is no moral symmetry between Israel and the terrorists in Gaza," he said during a televised news conference in Tel Aviv.

"Hamas deliberately targets our children and they deliberately place their rockets next to their children. Now despite this reality - and it's a difficult reality - Israel will continue to do everything in its power to avoid civilian casualties."

 

[Serpentine]

It's like saying,since Israel is bombing civilians with American made F-16s and F-15s,so U.S should enter the war as soon as possible.
What a lame reason for Iran to enter the war,Fajr-5 rockets?

 

[jnd3x0]

nothing much, Israel is desperate to find a reason to attack Iran, while still got hit by people with limited small arms, Messing with Iran will be nightmare until they nuke Iran heavily, so I think Iran should build nuke fast, to seal this talking threat as well. God bless Iran.

 

[Kaniska]

There is no point in unnecessarily dragging Iran to this episode where Iran is not directly connected with it...

 

[bozorgmehr]

nothing much, Israel is desperate to find a reason to attack Iran, while still got hit by people with limited small arms, Messing with Iran will be nightmare until they nuke Iran heavily, so I think Iran should build nuke fast, to seal this talking threat as well. God bless Iran.

Welll Iran has been virtually taunting Israel to do something for the past few years and passing all of their red lines with great fanfare. But besides tough talk, Israel has done diddly squat. That's because they know any military action by them against Iran will be a shortcut to a change in the balance of power in middle east.

 

[Abii]

lmao
lol

no comment

 

[Abii]

nothing much, Israel is desperate to find a reason to attack Iran, while still got hit by people with limited small arms, Messing with Iran will be nightmare until they nuke Iran heavily, so I think Iran should build nuke fast, to seal this talking threat as well. God bless Iran.

wtf are you talking about?

They're not desperate, they have their reason.

They keep saying we want to wipe them off the map and we must be stopped at all costs. That's their reason, but they haven't acted on it since the late 1980's when they started their bitching.


And we don't need nukes. We need smart leaders that would say "fuk Israel and **** arabs", we want nothing to do with an of you. That's better than 10000000000000000 hydrogen bombs. Thankfully unlike most other muslim nations our ppl are already at that stage and they already have that mindset. Now we need to do something about the regime or get them to come on board with the rest of us.

 

[bozorgmehr]

wtf are you talking about?

They're not desperate, they have their reason.

They keep saying we want to wipe them off the map and we must be stopped at all costs. That's their reason, but they haven't acted on it since the late 1980's when they started their bitching.


And we don't need nukes. We need smart leaders that would say "fuk Israel and **** arabs", we want nothing to do with an of you. That's better than 10000000000000000 hydrogen bombs. Thankfully unlike most other muslim nations our ppl are already at that stage and they already have that mindset. Now we need to do something about the regime or get them to come on board with the rest of us.

Why should we say fuk you to Arabs? They're our neighbours. They're not going anywhere. We're not going anywhere. Our goal should be to peacefully coexist with them, buy from them, sell to them, etc... Of course some of them may be too backward to understand this just yet. That's why we need to be strong in order to ensure they are respectful and understand their boundaries. And we're on our way to reach that point. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't take the initiative to shape the environment in a fashion beneficial to all of us.

 

[somebozo]

nothing much, Israel is desperate to find a reason to attack Iran, while still got hit by people with limited small arms, Messing with Iran will be nightmare until they nuke Iran heavily, so I think Iran should build nuke fast, to seal this talking threat as well. God bless Iran.

Iran made Fajr 5 rockets have already been in used to attack Israel and that is not possible without direct state involvement as missile are no small thing to be smuggled in a back pack. This alone serves enough excuse to attack Iran on the pretext of pre-emptive strike under international law. And Israel has time to time proven itself to be swift and deadly - as recently as bombing of factory in Sudan.

When countries fail to deliver to their citizen, they start looking for escape goats and that is the situation of Iran and much of the Arab and Muslim world today. Based on primitive historical accounts of 7th century, Israel and "Joos" serve as a good excuse. In reality much of the Arab and Muslim world will get a reality shock about the incompetency of their own leader if they were given a fair chance to explore Israel instead of nonsense media propaganda.

 

[somebozo]

Welll Iran has been virtually taunting Israel to do something for the past few years and passing all of their red lines with great fanfare. But besides tough talk, Israel has done diddly squat. That's because they know any military action by them against Iran will be a shortcut to a change in the balance of power in middle east.

Iran and call talk to impress the people with false pride but in reality Iran shares no border or air capability to do jack against Israel. The best they can do is finance and arm a few immature terrorist proxies which can invite retaliations from Israel with high civilian causalities.

 

[somebozo]

Welll Iran has been virtually taunting Israel to do something for the past few years and passing all of their red lines with great fanfare. But besides tough talk, Israel has done diddly squat. That's because they know any military action by them against Iran will be a shortcut to a change in the balance of power in middle east.

Iran and call talk to impress the people with false pride but in reality Iran shares no border or air capability to do jack against Israel. The best they can do is finance and arm a few immature terrorist proxies which can invite retaliations from Israel with high civilian causalities.

 

[Hack-Hook]

Well it's like attacking Russia because somebody used ak-47 to attack you.
Fajr 5 US about old system that only god knew to how many country we exported it.
By the way if Israel wanted to attack us they must have done that when Hezbollah used our weapon to attack Israel after all that's something we never been shy about and always told that we arm and train Hezbollah . While when it come to Palestine we only claimed qe support them morally

 

[bozorgmehr]

Iran and call talk to impress the people with false pride but in reality Iran shares no border or air capability to do jack against Israel. The best they can do is finance and arm a few immature terrorist proxies which can invite retaliations from Israel with high civilian causalities.

You got it backward buddy! I was talking about Israel attacking Iran. Not the other way around.

 

[somebozo]

Well it's like attacking Russia because somebody used ak-47 to attack you.
Fajr 5 US about old system that only god knew to how many country we exported it.
By the way if Israel wanted to attack us they must have done that when Hezbollah used our weapon to attack Israel after all that's something we never been shy about and always told that we arm and train Hezbollah . While when it come to Palestine we only claimed qe support them morally

Its like arguing with ignorance.

AK47 can be had in black market and can be smuggled in a cargo.
Very different than a non-export missile manufactured and used by only one country in the world.

You got it backward buddy! I was talking about Israel attacking Iran. Not the other way around.

In that case Iran will have no means to retaliate other than fire some rockets.

 

[Serpentine]

Iran made Fajr 5 rockets have already been in used to attack Israel and that is not possible without direct state involvement as missile are no small thing to be smuggled in a back pack. This alone serves enough excuse to attack Iran on the pretext of pre-emptive strike under international law. And Israel has time to time proven itself to be swift and deadly - as recently as bombing of factory in Sudan.

When countries fail to deliver to their citizen, they start looking for escape goats and that is the situation of Iran and much of the Arab and Muslim world today. Based on primitive historical accounts of 7th century, Israel and "Joos" serve as a good excuse. In reality much of the Arab and Muslim world will get a reality shock about the incompetency of their own leader if they were given a fair chance to explore Israel instead of nonsense media propaganda.

**** the international law that allows some major countries to attack weaker nations like Iraq and Afghanistan,but condemns it when they want to defend themselves.

You are just a pathetic dual-personality guy,we still remember how you defended Iran in some of your posts and then attacked it in some other.you should visit a psychologist,since your situation is not stable.