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i think you missed the point.

they're saying in fewer words "watch what leaders say, not what they do"

iran might be saying a lot, but if it wanted war, it would have been attacking, the same way that israel is attacking gaza, not threatening gaza.

even now when iran has responded to israel's attacks, you still seem to care more about iran's threats than iran's missiles.

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on your very long aside, you are mislabelling the positive sum behaviour as zero-sum.

you might see the point in putting at least equal blame between israel and hamas for the conflict with the positive sum descriptor. israel is in a mutually beneficial escalation and continuation of violence with hamas. an extreme right wing populace in israel is a win both for hamas and for israel. neither care about the palestinians, nor the israelis.