Iran has not taken the trouble to build hiding places

Show the cynicism of the regime against its own population

It’s Donald Trump who controls the decision for the continuation of the war between Iran and Israel. But regardless of his decision, the popular opinion in Israel and Iran will influence the process, especially in the long term.

The photos of impact seats after air bombs in Tehran and rockets in Tel Aviv can look like it is similar. From deformed house bodies with blown window glass, civilians are dug to death or injured on both sides. But here there are clear differences: for example, Israel has an air defense that usually succeeds in pushing the ballistic missiles from Iran, even if they sometimes break through the air defense with a Fatful output. The power of Iran’s rockets ensures that Hezbollah and Hamas fade in comparison.

Prime minister Benjamin NetanyahuLike the formidable agenda he is, the most manage to collect the most in a fragmented nation on Friday 13 June, during the attacks of the first day on nuclear technology, nuclear physicists and military leaders in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The attack, which was probably planned for years, began with the fact that implanted drones shot for the first time on shooting slopes and air defense before 200 air -advanced fighter aircraft attacked their goals.

Through Iranian sources of opposition I get information that the drones may have been planted by the former Afghan army that Mossad managed to recruit since the United States withdrew from Afghanistan. It is not unlikely. Under the Persian spread and unemployed Afghan professional soldiers, who do not receive asylum in other countries, it may have been possible to recruit agents, although they must know that it is associated with life -evormed danger if they are revealed.

The Islamic Republic was seriously winged after the attacks of the past days, which were preceded by devastating Israeli attacks on Iran’s Proxymilis Hezbollah in Lebanon and the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. But despite this, Iranian robots have caused large material and human losses in Israel. The economist writes that the Israeli flight attacks daily can cost Israel Sek 3 billion. Nasty shoot The Iran’s rockets are supposed to cost the following as much. An extensive war will influence the state finances of Israel for a long time.

The cracks in Israel start to appear again. Little events often better let us understand the great ones. The left -liberal newspaper Haaretz had a note about a female police officer in the port city of Haifa who intervened against a small crowd of protesters who wore sweaters with the words “Stop the war”. This sentence is “illegal”The police officer exclaimed before five protesters were taken to a police station because of his protest against the war in Gaza and the new between Iran and Israel.

The event sounded like An ironic confirmation of what Israeli peace activists warned during a peace conference in Jerusalem that I proved in May. There they discovered that the word “peace” is treated as an ugly word in Israel. They were tired of constantly living under the sword, ie Netanyahus Multi -front war to which they can add another.

From a hiding place in Tel Aviv Leg Alon-Lee GreenSpokesperson for Jewish-Palestijn who stands together, from videos with more cracks in the wall. He talks about the death of the night among Israeli civilians (of Iranian rocket attacks) and under Palestinians in Gaza (after Israeli bombing). If we are all just “collateral damage” (unintended civil losses) for the government of Netanyahu, he wonders. Are our lives not worth anything? With this “we” he includes everyone who lives between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Another Jewish-Israeli citizen describes their depression and fatigue, how body and soul go low speed during the war.

An Israeli woman, Who is lucky to live in a villa with his own hiding place in the small town of Pardes Hana, describes in a private message how safe it is to be close to the shelter, to continue to work from there, even when the alarm goes and sleeps in the hiding place if necessary. For a family of children it is an extra bonus to have their own hiding place because they do not have to take the reactions of the neighbors into account. But this is really not everyone spoiled.

Although Israel has made major investments in expanding public shelters, not all citizens have access to it. After an Iranian rocket had killed four women in the Arab city of Tamra, northeast of Haifa, the light was focused on a neglected phenomenon: most Palestinian communities in the state of Israel miss public shelters. The tragedy in Tamra is the result of a discrimination of the state that has been waiting for decades, where government investments have been abandoned for Arab communities in Israel, Haaretz wrote on the leadership site. The most vulnerable are Bedouin communities that are classified as “Not -recognized” Through the state.

Netanyahu is one Masterful tactics that can win victories in politics and on the battlefield, but who do not have a plan for peace with the Palestinians, except for empty Gaza, and perhaps the West Bank afterwards, as the settlement wants justice. Neither has he been able to give his people more safety because it requires peace with the Palestinians and recognition of their right to self -determination. Despite more than 20 months of devastating war in Gaza, where almost the entire comic was laid in ruins and the hunger of people, he did not, with his calling to call “total victory”, receive the Israelis who are still supposed to live in Gaza.

“But those who are for him will end behind him. It takes a long time to disturb someone’s conviction,” writes an Israeli contact that we live with the daily fear of the war.

I get from Iran At the same time photos of long queues for the gas stations, where the gasoline is rated. There are people who have no hiding places to reach, because the Islamic Republic has not taken the trouble to build such an infrastructure for their population. It may seem strange in view of the collective experience of eight years of war with Iraq in the 1980s, and despite the fact that the leaders of Iran know for decades that the most important political goals of Netanyahus are harming the Islamic Republic and forcing a regime change. The lack of hiding places shows the cynicism of the Iranian regime against its own population.

A contact in Iran tells about what he was thinking about taking shelter from the Israeli air strikes in fruit growing outside his city. But when it was raining just outside the orchard, he distance. A woman in Tehran summarizes her conflicting feelings: “Stressed, scared, happy, sad, sad, hopeful, hopeless”.

The Iranian director Jafar PanahiWho won this year’s Golden Palm in Cannes did not want to sign a phone call that condemned Israel’s war in Gaza. But on Instagram he now explains that Israel must be confronted with the international court after his attack on Iran. To support Iran’s law to territorial integrity and sovereignty, he demands an immediate end to the devastating war, a war that destroys the life of the citizen on both sides.

But he would not be Panahi if he did not focus on the regime of his home country: four decades of tyranny, misconduct and corruption. The only alternative is to introduce a popular and democratic rule, he writes. But it is clear that he does not believe it can come as the result of Israeli air strikes, or an American access to the war by extension.

Jafar Panahi urges the world community to force the two regimes to stop the attacks immediately and kill the citizens. So the same message as the five demonstrators with the sweaters “Stop the War” put forward in Haifa.

Bitte Hammargren is a freelance journalist and analyst in the middle -east

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