In the Middle East everyone fights with everyone else and everyone is in covert or open alliance with everyone else. Simultaneously.

▲

hannofcart 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Arab Bedouin saying:

"I and my brother against my cousin, and I and my cousin against the stranger."

▲

trollbridge 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And for extra fun, the U.S. sometimes likes to jump into the fray.

▲

Ladioss 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The US is more of a bouncer on behalf of Israel than anything else, really.

▲

deepsun 17 hours ago | parent [-]

-- Moshe, why are you keep reading anti-Semitic papers? -- I just like to hear how powerful and clever we are.

▲

anigbrowl 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Defense of Israel was the primary justification offered in a recent State department memo asserting the legal basis for the war with Iran. Unusually, its publication was not announced on social media or to the press, unlike most state department official pronouncements. Anyway, rather than being opinion, this is (for the present) the official position of the United States government.

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-legal-adviser/2...

	▲	thaumasiotes 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Defense of Israel was the primary justification offered in a recent State department memo asserting the legal basis for the war with Iran. It's funnier than that. The justification is "self-defense of its [the USA's] Israeli ally".

▲

Cyph0n 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sometimes?

▲

missingua 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Every ~10 year or so. As opposed to the locals who experience it daily, either war or the conflicts-between-wars.

	▲	appointment 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The US has been doing air strikes in the Middle East on a regular basis since ~1990, and they extensively support the military adventures of allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia.