David Cameron: Iran attacking Israel was 'reckless'

Journalist: What would Britain do if our consulate was flattened?

David Cameron: Well, w-we would take very strong action...

Journalist: Iran would say that's what they did...

hardline cleric meets with regime officials

In the final years of South African Apartheid, the white government decided it must 1) overthrow the government of Angola 2) install a puppet regime in Namibia 3) attack Zimbabwe 4) attack Botswana 5) attack Zambia in order to survive. This did not work

Seeing people running interference for a famine has been a very eye-opening experience. The information is not just social media innuendo but reported by prominent global governance organizations and even senior Biden administration officials (thehill.com/policy/interna…).

Israeli army has dropped thousands of leaflets warning Palestinians against trying to return to northern #Gaza

The moment to form a regional coalition was during the Arab Spring wars when polarization was at its peak. Now most Arab states are mending fences with Iran. The other alternative is making friends with the Arab League by allowing a Palestinian state, but Israeli elites reject.

Biden has said that the US will not support Israel in any offensive action against Iran, but that it will continue to defend Israel.

As I explained to Becky Anderson, this distinction will be meaningless once the war starts, as the US will get drawn into the fight regardless.

ABC News — 5 ballistic missiles hit the Nevatim Air Base, damaging a C-130 transport aircraft, an unused runway and empty storage facilities, the official said. 4 ballistic missiles hit the Negev Air Base, but there were no reports of significant damage, the official said.

Israel's Amb to the UN [no longer wearing the yellow star he put on in an earlier UN SC meeting for dramatic effect] now calls for 'all possible sanctions' against
Iran + suggests Iran should pay reparations...
Israel reserves the legal right to retaliate, he said.

“Without naming Israel or Iran. …Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) was more blunt about the stakes than anyone else: ‘I'm against the next war already.’” reason.com/2024/04/14/bid…

Biden Sends U.S. Forces To Protect Israel's Borders for the First Time Ever

By Matthew Petti reason.com/2024/04/14/bid…

The internet is also, of course, a place full of good reporting and analysis. Here is Matthew Petti's summary of what we know so far about the Israeli-Iranian conflict. reason.com/2024/04/14/bid…

A lot of people tried to write off the Iranian attack as a wimpy failure. If that’s the face-saving position the US and Israel need to prevent further escalation, great, but people in power clearly do not want to keep rolling those dice:

NEW: Poll from CBS, YouGov finds support for weapons aid for Israel has dramatically declined among Democrats.

cbsnews.com/news/biden-isr…

G7 leaders today agreed to use all channels of influence on Israel to not launch retaliation attack on Iran now, Bloomberg reports