• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Except it didn’t. If anything their response proves my point. It is such a weak response compared what Israel did to them. Think about it, what did their retaliation actually accomplish? Most of the missles didn’t hit, and the very few that did hit didn’t hit any strategic targets. They literally only hit random some random buildings and caused some civilian injuries… That’s it. Compared to what Israel did to them that’s nothing.

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        2 days ago

        Keep in mind in their first attack they targeted the Mossad headquarters and Nevatim base. Israel said they were aiming at civilians, and actually arrested the journalist trying to find where the rockets hit (only democracy in the middle east, amiright?)

        so I would be skeptical regarding whatever Israel says about what was hit or how successful it was.

        the truth is that whenever Israel decides to randomly bomb and murder people on another country, they will get hit by a barrage that makes their iron dome useless.

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          You can’t hide damage of that significance. Both Israel and Iran lie about the extent of the damages, but damage can be verified. You can’t hide dead commanders or hide from satellite images. We tend to have a good idea of what happened shortly after.

          In this case, Iran has admitted to a lot of the damages that Israel claimed and a few other of their claims can be verified with satellite imagery. However, Israel hasn’t admitted to any strategic damage by Iran nor has there been any verification for the damages that aimed for. Iran can say they aimed for something, that doesn’t mean they did. They can claim they hit something, doesn’t mean they did.

          I understand being skeptical of Israel because they’re a dubious source, especially when they’re one of the parties involved. That being said, we’re at the point where we can tell that Iran’s missle barrage yesterday didn’t do much.

          makes their iron dome useless

          Just an FYI, the Iron Dome is not designed to intercept missles. It’s designed to intercept short range rockets and artillery. This means that the Iron Dome probably wasn’t used at all yesterday. Instead, other systems like Arrow, David’s Sling, and THAAD were used since these systems were actually designed to counter missles.