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Transnational Thursday for October 17, 2024

Transnational Thursday is a thread for people to discuss international news, foreign policy or international relations history. Feel free as well to drop in with coverage of countries you’re interested in, talk about ongoing dynamics like the wars in Israel or Ukraine, or even just whatever you’re reading.

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It looks like there has been an assassination attempt against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A large Hezbollah drone struck one of Netanyahu’s homes in the Galilee region. Netanyahu was not home at the time, and no one was injured. It seems like there was fairly high level authorization for this attack from Iran. There are murmurings from the Israeli government that this attack merits retaliation against high level figures in the Iranian government.

I see nothing wrong with directly targeting your opponent's leader, rather than having to kill all the plebs in between first. Israel especially cannot complain, given their policiy and tactics. If I were Netanyahu, my response (after the initial nerves and shock) would be along the lines of "Fair play, but you're not good enough."

Normally I would agree. In this situation though I think it’s irresponsible for either of them to be doing that since it’s a nuclear power and an imminent nuclear power. That’s how you get millions of people killed over personal defense interests of the leadership.