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by raprp 2778 days ago
Hamas is bombing Israel, not the Syrian Army.

Hamas chose Saudi Arabia's and Qatar's side on the Syrian conflict and that lead to Assad breaking relations with them.

Syria took it as a betrayal so I doubt they would do anything to help Hamas.

Israel is not bombing Syria to defend itself. Syria never had and nor will have the capability to do anything to Israel.

The reason Israel have been bombing Syria is the same reason Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, USA, UK, France, Australia and the rest of the coalition are doing it too: regime change.

They want to replace Assad with a puppet, like Hariri in Lebanon, so they can all push their own agendas in the region.

And on the other side Russia, Iran and Hezbollah jumped in Assad's rescue to counter that move.

They are ALL pushing their own interests at the expense of Syrian lives so please drop this outrageous "defending itself" narrative and admit all actors of both sides are war criminals with blood on their hands.

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> Israel is not bombing Syria to defend itself. Syria never had and nor will have the capability to do anything to Israel.

You're forgetting about the Six-Day War [1] and the Yom Kippur War [2]. Yes, there are controversies around those too, and Israel came out on top in the end - but let's not pretend that Israel the modern nation-state hasn't been on guard against being obliterated by its neighbors since Day 1.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War

Nobody denied those conflicts and the need of Israel to defend itself.

But sometime seems that only Israel has the right to defend itself, even when its not on the defense but actively bombing countries with far inferior armies / allies and they have to just accept being bombed because of events 50 years ago.

Can Iraq or Syria use the recent invasions as excuse to do whatever they want for the next 50 years too?

The concept of preemptive war has always been an excuse to actually start wars.

> You're forgetting about the Six-Day War [1] and the Yom Kippur War [2].

You using something to deflect from something else doesn't mean anyone else isn't aware of the thing you use to deflect.