Does Iran matter?

Israel says Iran wants to destroy it. This is being used as justification for military action and possible war, which could have devastating consequences. Iran lacks the capability to destroy Israel, so why doesn't Israel ignore Iran and leave it alone?

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SDavis · 56-60, F

Iran has openly expressed his hatred towards Israel for decades.

Iran does not feel that the Israelites should exist.

This is not the first conflict they've had in these modern days.

And if you go back far enough people that lived in those lands have been in conflict with each other for hundreds of years.

https://www.stimson.org/2023/what-drives-israel-iran-hostility-how-might-it-be-resolved/

https://www.aei.org/articles/how-iran-plans-to-destroy-israel/

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/iran-and-israel-couple-odds

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@SDavis thousands of years, not hundreds. Iran was once Persia.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Babylonian-Captivity

SDavis · 56-60, F

@samueltyler2

Thank you I already knew - you go back further it was Babylon.

Just like Babylon held Israel and captivity.

The difference is they were not at war with Babylon - Israel did not fight them.

Nor were they at war with Persia or Alexander - or the Ottoman empire or Cyrus the Great. The Christian Jews did try to fight the Romans close to the end of the Roman reign. Heck even Great Britain governed Israel for a brief point but that was no war.

When Israel began have conflict with
- meaning war - going to war - was after Muhammad came into existence with the the Muslims....... Both wanted to occupy the Holy Land. And the Muslims did not come into existence until mid 7th century AD and they conquered Persia ___ which would make it hundreds of years one can even say just over a thousand - less than 2,000 - or just say hundreds.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-iran/arab-conquest-of-iran-and-its-aftermath/6AB6C254CCD1E6D299449CD836500498

https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/history-of-israel#section_4.

Israel and Iran even became allies for a point until the mid 1970s
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-01/the-israel-iran-conflict-how-it-shapes-the-middle-east.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@SDavis of course, there was no State of Israel until 1948. As to whether the Jews fought wars, that is more semantic than fact. The history of that area is full of violence.

SDavis · 56-60, F

@samueltyler2 the Bible list the countries that Israel was at war with the Bible list the countries that conquered Israel without war.

History list the Nations that conquered Israel without war after the Roman occupation.

Tell the historians whether what they write is in fact. The war Israel had with Iran is well documented.

And Israel goes back further than 1948 they took their land back from the Iranians. And quite frankly most Israelites that occupy the land of Israel today are not the Hebrews of the ancient land of Israel.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@SDavis I don;t know which historians you mean, and the bible is a sort of oral history, not necessarily historical fact. We will have to agree to disagree that the difference between a full out war and a conquering is pure semantics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_conquest
https://www.britannica.com/topic/conquest-international-law