The Middle East offers among the most global air connectivity of any region in the world, given its convenient geography. Operating in the region can be difficult under the best of circumstances, given the fragile geopolitics at play. However, things are now getting even more complicated…
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Qatar closes its airspace to commercial flights
Within the past hour, Qatar has completely closed its airspace to commercial flights, a decision made “in order to ensure the safety of citizens, residents, and visitors.” For now the airspace closure is just temporary, for the coming hours this evening. So it’s anyone’s guess when the airspace will reopen.
Interestingly, just 24 hours ago, Qatar Airways posted a message on social media basically talking about how the airline plans to continue operating interrupted. As the message explained, “our unwavering commitment to integrity, reliability, and resilience continues to guide us as we navigate the evolving situation in the region.” One certainly imagines that there’s a specific reason that flights are being grounded right now.
There are roughly 100 aircraft currently enroute to Doha, so expect to see lots of diversions. So far, we’re seeing most planes land in Abu Dhabi (AUH), Bahrain (BAH), or Dammam (DMM). If airspace remains closed for an extended period of time, this situation could get very complicated. Heck, even if it’s temporary, this will be messy, given the extent to which Qatar Airways’ network relies on connecting traffic.
It’s anyone’s guess how this all plays out
It goes without saying that there’s a major conflict going on right now with Iran, so it’s not surprising in general to see operational complications in the region. I mean, we’ve even seen Israel’s EL AL suspend flights for 10 days, and now the airline is resuming flights with a cap of 50 passengers per flight, over safety concerns.
I think we can all agree that the timing here is interesting, as Qatar is closing its airspace from one minute to the next. If the concern were simply regarding potential unrest in the Gulf region, you’d think the country wouldn’t necessarily close its airspace to inbound flights that are already enroute.
If anything, that points more in the direction of a direct threat to Qatar. The US State Department has issued a “shelter in place until further notice” warning for Qatar, over concern that Iran will strike back against a US military base in the region. American suspended its only route to Doha, also over safety concerns.
Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has simply stated that “the relevant authorities announce the temporary suspension of air traffic in the country’s airspace,” and that “this is part of a set of precautionary measures taken based on developments in the region.”
Bottom line
Qatar has closed its airspace effective immediately, and that means all Doha-bound flights (including virtually all Qatar Airways flights) are diverting. Given the size of Qatar Airways’ global network, this has major implications for travelers.
This clearly reflects concern over Iran retaliating over strikes in recent days. Geopolitics are never easy, but it seems like we’re getting into especially unpleasant territory here when it comes to commercial aviation.
What do you make of Qatar closing its airspace?
@Lucky Airspace has reopened. Great qsuite availability over the next week or so.
When Will the airspace will open.
It seems that officials around the region were aware of this attack which is why several airspace were closed. This is from the Guardian :
US confirms Iran communicated in advance of 'symbolic' attack on Qatar air base
The US defense department has confirmed that Iran attacked the Al Udeid air base in Qatar “in a retaliatory but largely symbolic response to US strikes over the weekend”.
The official said Iran launched medium-range ballistic missiles...
It seems that officials around the region were aware of this attack which is why several airspace were closed. This is from the Guardian :
US confirms Iran communicated in advance of 'symbolic' attack on Qatar air base
The US defense department has confirmed that Iran attacked the Al Udeid air base in Qatar “in a retaliatory but largely symbolic response to US strikes over the weekend”.
The official said Iran launched medium-range ballistic missiles after communicating the move in advance to Qatari and American officials.
So either the US and Qatar colluded with Iran, or they actually didn't give an ef about innocent civilians enough to warn them of a known imminent attack.
The stock market (those Wall Street guys are never wrong. I know :)) thinks that this is a tepid response from Iran. Consequently, oil took a dive and all the major indices are up.
What a silly comment.... lol
It's not the Wall Street guys.
It's the people with actual fingers on the trigger that controls these narratives.
That's why we need to push for the PELOSI act.
As of right now Ben it is not just Qatar, but Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, and Saudi have also closed their airspaces
Looks like a token face-saving response from Iran. According to reports, Qatar was notified ahead of time about the attack. Hence to precautionary closure of the airspace by the Qataris.
Grandfather missiles intercepted by Patriot air defence systems, with advanced notice
Face-saving & using old stockpiles.
The question we really need to be asking is saving whose face?
Iran? Qatar? US?
Can be viewed as saving face of any of the party.
I'm here in Doha, Qatar. Just watched about three salvos overhead and met by the anti -air defences. A few intercepts and a few booms. Infrastructure is all good as it was the US Airbase that was targeted as a face-saving response. Never a dull moment ;-)
stay safe!
Your favorite airline! Oh no!
Prominent Israeli reporter Barak Ravid, quoting Israeli officials, posted that Iran has launched 6 missiles at Al Udeid Air Base, the largest U.S. Air Force base in the region, which is located in Qatar
So you see, this wasn’t a disproportionate response. Qatar needed to close their airspace. The fallout of dealing with lost connections is quite different than a Qatar A380 from London carrying people from a dozen or more countries being shot down...
Prominent Israeli reporter Barak Ravid, quoting Israeli officials, posted that Iran has launched 6 missiles at Al Udeid Air Base, the largest U.S. Air Force base in the region, which is located in Qatar
So you see, this wasn’t a disproportionate response. Qatar needed to close their airspace. The fallout of dealing with lost connections is quite different than a Qatar A380 from London carrying people from a dozen or more countries being shot down because it was in the path of missiles
BBC is reporting explosions were heard over Doha
And now a US base in Iraq. This is going region-wide :(
A believe the same is happening to the UAE. Most if not all flights headed to DXB or AUH and are close to landing are turning around in the past few minutes. EY81 for example (LHR-AUH) was half an hour from landing at AUH and now turned around the other way.
Look on FlightRadar24. All the planes flying to AUH and DXB are doing weird turns.
I think something is happening live over the Persian Gulf at the moment. Every aircraft flying over it seems to be either diverting to their point of origin or trying to get away.
Also, FlyDubai flight 329 from Dubai (DXB) to Karachi (KHI) is no longer on radar for some reason. The flight showed as being over Iran...
Look on FlightRadar24. All the planes flying to AUH and DXB are doing weird turns.
I think something is happening live over the Persian Gulf at the moment. Every aircraft flying over it seems to be either diverting to their point of origin or trying to get away.
Also, FlyDubai flight 329 from Dubai (DXB) to Karachi (KHI) is no longer on radar for some reason. The flight showed as being over Iran at 30K feet and then disappeared from radar. Likely a bad connection (hopefully).
I can't even imagine how FR24 would've looked during the Iraq War or even the Gulf Wat.
The Qatari government has obviously received credible intel that Iran will be attacking the US base in Qatar any minute.
Well hopefully this will wake up some of these Zionist avgeeks to the destructive nature of the Israeli regime
It’s not Israel threatening to bomb Qatar…
@Sean
Israel is the reason all this is happening in the Middle East. They are the biggest terrorist in the world. Netanyahu a blood thirsty criminal wanted by the ICJ. The US always defending that illegal European country in the Middle East.
I would say that Iran being in breach of nuclear nonproliferation agreements is the reason they got bombed... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3v6w2qr12o
Calling Israel an "illegal European country" is beyond ignorant.
@Watson
Read between the lines. The statement says that Iran had enriched uranium well beyond the threshold necessary solely for nuclear power. That isn't new, and we knew they would start doing so the second Trump pulled out of the JCPOA. There's a big difference between just enriching uranium and building a device capable of using that uranium to cause a nuclear explosion. From all we know from publicly released intelligence community reports and...
@Watson
Read between the lines. The statement says that Iran had enriched uranium well beyond the threshold necessary solely for nuclear power. That isn't new, and we knew they would start doing so the second Trump pulled out of the JCPOA. There's a big difference between just enriching uranium and building a device capable of using that uranium to cause a nuclear explosion. From all we know from publicly released intelligence community reports and IAEA reports, they were not doing the latter. Netanyahu claims they were, but he has also been claiming they've been "weeks" away from a functional nuclear bomb for 30-odd years and the last time he made a claim like this that we acted on, it turned out Iraq had not been developing new nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons at all.
What should be telling is that, grain of salt included, Trump was supposedly close to a new JCPOA-style treaty with Iran. Netanyahu unilaterally struck Iran to derail those negotiations. And furthermore, what's the supposed endgame to bombing them? Do you or anyone else honestly think that they'll stop pursuing nukes? Hell no, they'll double down. North Korea is proof, if you get nukes then other countries get much more cautious about taking military action against you. So with that as the short term outcome, how do you ensure long-term compliance? Are you just going to keep bombing them every time they rebuild the centrifuges? Are you fine with the terrorist/gray zone attacks on western and Israeli civilians that that would inevitably lead to? Are you going to push for boots on the ground? That would make Iraq look like playing in a kid's sandbox, with us having to keep ground forces in place to control and keep order on a population of over 90 million people (Iraq had a population of just 26.8 million when we invaded in 2003). Bombing Iran is not a long term solution, and just makes it harder to find any non-military alternative for decades more.
I beg your pardon—what planet did you come from? Iran's in breach of what exactly, and that somehow justifies bombing them? Have you ever heard of Israel’s not-so-secret nuclear arsenal? That’s a blatant violation of non-proliferation too—so should we go ahead and level Dimona while we’re at it? Or does the “chosen” status come with a lifetime exemption from consequences?
Oh, spare me. This didn’t magically begin out of nowhere—it started with Israel, led by its smug, wanted war criminal of a prime minister, who had no problem yanking his orange lapdog in D.C. into bombing Iranian nuclear sites—congressional approval be damned. You expect the Iranians to just smile politely and turn the other cheek? Spare us the sanctimony buddy.
Started with Israel?
huh? Iran has paid to kill Israelis for decades via proxies with Hamas, Hezbollah, and more recently, the Houthis in Yemen.
Again. Iran has been killing Israels for decades and paying/funding these groups to kill Israelis. Iran not only funded the October 7th attacks in Israel but also had an Iranian military member that helped Hamas plan October 7th.
Iran has killed Americans in the region (primarily Iraq during the war)...
Started with Israel?
huh? Iran has paid to kill Israelis for decades via proxies with Hamas, Hezbollah, and more recently, the Houthis in Yemen.
Again. Iran has been killing Israels for decades and paying/funding these groups to kill Israelis. Iran not only funded the October 7th attacks in Israel but also had an Iranian military member that helped Hamas plan October 7th.
Iran has killed Americans in the region (primarily Iraq during the war) via proxies there as well with very little retribution.
Iran was refining uranium far above what is necessary to create nuclear energy and all from a regime that has, at its very starting charter, the elimination of Israel and The Great Satan, The United States.
If you don't believe in the State of Israel's right to exist. Just say that clearly and out yourself. At least then it eliminates the joke that is an argument of Israel starting anything.
No American would tolerate an enemy directly funding three separate groups that threaten the US much less a regime that directly calls for an end to Israel and the US to develop a nuclear weapon.
I believe Israel went too far in their response to October 7th but just completely ignoring what Iran has been funding and doing for decades now is simply ignorant.
Leave it to Julie to continue having the consistently wrong and bad takes on everything.
Israel intentionally derailed the nuclear and peace talks by bombing Iran and making a big show of it and escalating the entire situation.
The Israel lobby in the US is a plague.
No normal US citizen cared about Iran or them attacking before this weekend.
Right…
Because Israel coaxed Iran into starting a nuclear weapons program? No. They didn’t. They also didn’t start a religious fanatic regime with the goal of destroying Israel. Iran did that all on its own and has funded group after group to kill Israelis.
If someone did that to America, I doubt you’d be as ignorant on the topic.
You only live once, Yolo, find better history books
Your insults are predictable but...
Right…
Because Israel coaxed Iran into starting a nuclear weapons program? No. They didn’t. They also didn’t start a religious fanatic regime with the goal of destroying Israel. Iran did that all on its own and has funded group after group to kill Israelis.
If someone did that to America, I doubt you’d be as ignorant on the topic.
You only live once, Yolo, find better history books
Your insults are predictable but always ignorant and they usually start telling the story 3/4 of the way through when it started
Remind me @Julie, did the US bomb Russia when they paid militants a bounty for every US soldier they killed in Afghanistan? Did the US bomb Russia when they intentionally attacked US special forces in Syria? No?
Sound to me like you're just trying to justify Israel directly attacking Iran. Which, to be explicitly clear, happened entirely because Netanyahu wanted to derail a new non-proliferation deal between the US and Iran, not because Iran...
Remind me @Julie, did the US bomb Russia when they paid militants a bounty for every US soldier they killed in Afghanistan? Did the US bomb Russia when they intentionally attacked US special forces in Syria? No?
Sound to me like you're just trying to justify Israel directly attacking Iran. Which, to be explicitly clear, happened entirely because Netanyahu wanted to derail a new non-proliferation deal between the US and Iran, not because Iran was about to complete a nuclear weapon (we can very safely say they weren't).
@Dusty
Simply noting the battle between Iran and Israel didn't start two weeks ago. Iran has been funding the killing of Israelis for decades. Let's just stop pretending it's something new in the last two weeks.
You and Yolo love to conveniently forget the known fact that Iran has been enriching uranium FAR past that which is used for energy-producing purposes for two decades now.
How humorous that someone can note that the...
@Dusty
Simply noting the battle between Iran and Israel didn't start two weeks ago. Iran has been funding the killing of Israelis for decades. Let's just stop pretending it's something new in the last two weeks.
You and Yolo love to conveniently forget the known fact that Iran has been enriching uranium FAR past that which is used for energy-producing purposes for two decades now.
How humorous that someone can note that the war between iran and Israel didn't start two weeks ago and be called a Zionist. But Yolo is truly an ignorant POS that only knows how to assess mental issues at his 3-year old maturity level. When you can't respond to an argument, it's common to just use childlike names instead.
@Julie
I'm well aware this conflict didn't start yesterday, last year, or the year before. It's older than you or me. I'm also aware that between the more cordial relationships between Egypt and Jordan, the decapitation of Hezbollah and the overthrow of Assad's regime, and the destruction of Hamas (and Gaza along with it), Israel was sitting in a relatively strong position in the region and Iran was not. Bombing Iran literally made the...
@Julie
I'm well aware this conflict didn't start yesterday, last year, or the year before. It's older than you or me. I'm also aware that between the more cordial relationships between Egypt and Jordan, the decapitation of Hezbollah and the overthrow of Assad's regime, and the destruction of Hamas (and Gaza along with it), Israel was sitting in a relatively strong position in the region and Iran was not. Bombing Iran literally made the Ayatollah's case for them to the Iranian people that Israel is aggressive and will not allow Iran to even build nuclear power plants. Bombing Iran made the regime MORE popular, not less, and pushes any kind of reconciliation farther down the road. I'm aware the Iranian government hates Israel. I'm also aware there's damned little Iran can actually DO to Israel, and that the current Iranian government won't last forever. I was just hoping that the Israeli leadership would have the foresight not to piss off the average Iranian so much so that any new regime would be just as hostile as the old one.
>You and Yolo love to conveniently forget the known fact that Iran has been enriching uranium FAR past that which is used for energy-producing purposes for two decades now.
I did not forget. In fact, I posted about this above in response to @Watson, and elsewhere today. At risk of repeating myself, we ALLOWED this. The point of the JCPOA was to be a floodgate, to delay the stockpiling of enriched material so that, best case, a new regime comes along and is trustworthy enough that we don't need to monitor them anymore, or worst case the timeframe of Iran building a nuclear weapon is determined by us so that we can take the necessary countermeasures. Pulling out of the JCPOA removed that floodgate and, if Iran had immediately began work on a delivery system, put them within several years of being able to build a nuclear bomb. But there's no indication they ever started such a program, all they did was continue enriching uranium, making Netanyahu's justification for the strike and Trump's a false one.
@Dusty
I appreciate the thoughtful and informed response.
It did not start yesterday or two weeks ago as you note.
I did not support Trump blowing up the JCPOA but I'll also note that Iran did restart enriching activities after that (and had enriched well past peaceful means before that). Did that make Trump 1.0 correct? no. It did not. But it also reinforced to some that Iran has kept a tepid Nuclear...
@Dusty
I appreciate the thoughtful and informed response.
It did not start yesterday or two weeks ago as you note.
I did not support Trump blowing up the JCPOA but I'll also note that Iran did restart enriching activities after that (and had enriched well past peaceful means before that). Did that make Trump 1.0 correct? no. It did not. But it also reinforced to some that Iran has kept a tepid Nuclear weapons program in a "ready to go state" for about 10+ years now.
I don't support Trump generally or pretty much any of his foreign policy, but I will note that President Biden failed to do anything about the potential for Iran to quick start a bomb program.
No one in this forum knows what the iranians did the last 4 months in regards to their advancement of the weaponization of their nuclear arms program.
To be blunt, I find anything Tulsi Gabbard says to be hollow and useless so I find it difficult to believe her comments about the program a few months ago but I'm also not convinced by the Israeli intelligence either. I say that knowing neither of us know the truth.
I do think we know, without doubt, that Iran had kept the ability to create weapons for more than a decade (pre or post JCPOA. I don't disagree there).
To the extent that Israel had just fought Hamas and Hezbollah -- two entities that actively used Iranian money/support to kill Israelis via missiles or the October 7th attacks. I'll fully admit I feel sympathy for Netanyahu finally saying enough is enough (though I think Israel would be better off under different party leadership, in particular a more liberal government).
Iran has actively demonstrated wanted to kill Israelis and, regardless of what they were doing in 2025, they'd kept an ability to create a weapon as a deterrent. There's not really any question of that regardless of which intel source you query. The question is whether they'd activated that ability in the last 4 months.
If you place a similar situation in the realm of the US neighbors, I don't think there's any doubt that we would've taken the opportunity to eliminate the threat against a regime that actively says they want to destroy us.
But I appreciate the thoughtful response. I'll side with Presidents Clinton, W Bush, Obama, and Biden that Iran could not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. They've all publicly said that on the record. Ironically, Trump is the one who has often said he didn't want to get involved with Iran and said Secretary Clinton was a war-monger for her similar comments about Iran and their active nuclear weapons program.
I don't have a qualm in saying that I'm happy that the threat is likely removed for some time now.
@Julie
I don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon either, but given that Israel has nukes I understand why Iran also wants nukes. But working with them as Obama did is going to be more likely to prevent it altogether, or at least allow us control over the timing, than just bombing them. It's not difficult for a state to build a nuclear bomb, especially not when they have other friendly nuclear powers....
@Julie
I don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon either, but given that Israel has nukes I understand why Iran also wants nukes. But working with them as Obama did is going to be more likely to prevent it altogether, or at least allow us control over the timing, than just bombing them. It's not difficult for a state to build a nuclear bomb, especially not when they have other friendly nuclear powers. You can bomb them and cause setbacks, but bombing alone isn't even a guarantee of making a serious delay, and it's nigh impossible to determine from the air how much damage was actually done. The knowledge on how to build nuclear weapons isn't something we can prevent them from getting or implementing without actual boots on the ground.
And in regards to the nuclear program, I'll reiterate this. JCPOA did not prevent them from enriching uranium well above the point necessary for nuclear power. It did draw down their existing stockpile however and severely curtailed additional enrichment, by limiting the centrifuges they used to enrich the uranium and sending spent nuclear fuel out of the country. And while it's probable that they did start enriching uranium to higher levels after the JCPOA dissolved, by every account I've seen they were still well short of what was needed for an actual weapon, AND they hadn't received or started work on any kind of weapon that could use that nuclear material. I don't trust a word out of Gabbard's mouth, but I can agree she's probably telling the truth if the rest of our allies were saying the same thing, which was the case in March and even earlier this month. Nor do I think that if Iran did get a nuclear weapon, they'd immediately use it on Israel. People in power tend to want to keep power, and as a nuclear-armed state Israel could absolutely decapitate the Iranian government if they did use a nuclear weapon. It's hard to live the privileged life if you're dead, regardless of what religious tenets you profess to believe in. You also have North Korea to look at. They poured time and money into a nuclear program and finally built working nuclear weapons. For 80 years, their overriding national goal was supposedly forcible reunification of the two Koreas, leading to a lot of worry that they'd invade South Korea and use nuclear weapons to affect that goal. But last year, Kim Jong Un publicly stated to the world that that was no longer a goal of the North Korean state, and instead two Koreas would continue to share the peninsula.
I really didn't take you for being a Zionist, Julie. But now it all makes sense, since you really do have to be mentally ill to support a terroristic regime like Israel.
There's no reasoning with insanity, which is why everything you say is always nonsensical.
lol. Not Yolo with the usual tired "you're mentally ill" attacks when he has no other response.
Cute but predictable. Put down the weed, Mr 420. There's only one of us with a username that does cause paranoia. It isn't me. ;)
You only live once, Yolo. Try a career outside of midday unsolicited psychiatrac assessments. It only makes you look stupid and a REALLY bad attempt at being a mean girl. Though it seems to be all you know how to say.
No one needs to do a "psychiatrac" assessment to know you're a deranged, genocidal, baby-killer supporting lunatic.
You can keep deflecting, but it doesn't change the reality that you are a Zionist clown.
Also not Julie continually using sock puppet accounts to like her own comments, it's really embarassing.
I notice this everytime I call you out for your lunacy, you immediately like all of your own comments within minutes.
And I'm the paranoid one? I'm sorry no one likes you. it really bothers you that your comments aren't liked and mine are. Are you this insecure? ;)
Guest users can't like comments. This isn't a tough concept.
Get a life, loser. This is pathetic.
And I love that you view "zionist" as an insult. Hate jews much? "you're a deranged, genocidal, baby-killer supporting lunatic."
Sure... and I'm the one that needs mental help....
And I'm the paranoid one? I'm sorry no one likes you. it really bothers you that your comments aren't liked and mine are. Are you this insecure? ;)
Guest users can't like comments. This isn't a tough concept.
Get a life, loser. This is pathetic.
And I love that you view "zionist" as an insult. Hate jews much? "you're a deranged, genocidal, baby-killer supporting lunatic."
Sure... and I'm the one that needs mental help. Iran has been killing Israelis for decades, Funded the October 7th attacks, and publicly calls for the end of Israel while building a nuclear weapons program.
I'm not a baby-killer supporting person but you seem to be since you seem to be full on "team Iran". You should move there. Your liberal views would immediately get you sent to a political prison. It would not in Israel.
How about you let us know whether the State of Israel deserves to exist? Do you?
I doubt you do based on how you ignore 75% of the history between Iran and Israel to convince yourself of your righteous views. What an idiot.
You only Live Once, YOLO, put the weed down. Your paranoia is funny but stupid and you're embarrassing yourself. All you have left to say is schoolyard insults. Are you 5 years old?
I'll give you this though. You aren't Tim Dunn. Even the two of us aren't this stupid about history or who Iran is and isn't.
You don't have to support the full extent of Israel's war in Gaza to realize Iran has been funding the killing of Israelis for decades.
Girl you are so insecure lol. Anyone can register an account and like comments, which you clearly do. This was a common practice of our dear friend Arps, whose level of insanity you rival.
My original comment, which you chose to respond to in your own free time, is quite literally the most liked comment on this article. I don't need to artificially signal boost it like you do because I'm stating facts. Keep the...
Girl you are so insecure lol. Anyone can register an account and like comments, which you clearly do. This was a common practice of our dear friend Arps, whose level of insanity you rival.
My original comment, which you chose to respond to in your own free time, is quite literally the most liked comment on this article. I don't need to artificially signal boost it like you do because I'm stating facts. Keep the self-owns coming.
Every time you open your mouth, you sound more and more crazy. Not supporting Israel and the US bombing Iran, doesn't make anyone "Team Iran" that just makes them a rationale human that's against wars and escalations, which everyone can tell you aren't.
The amount of logical leaps you take would make the person you're so obsessed with, Tim Dunn, blush.
You sure do obsess about likes. You keep bringing it up over and over as though you're actively mad that some rando likes my replies. Is your life this sad? Get a new hobby, you only live once. Your life is pretty tragic today.
Thanks for your usual obsession with me. It's flattering. You track my comment history. When I post (even though you're actually rather ignorant and stupid on the topic). Get a better...
You sure do obsess about likes. You keep bringing it up over and over as though you're actively mad that some rando likes my replies. Is your life this sad? Get a new hobby, you only live once. Your life is pretty tragic today.
Thanks for your usual obsession with me. It's flattering. You track my comment history. When I post (even though you're actually rather ignorant and stupid on the topic). Get a better career. Your mental assessments and post quality are lacking. You still haven't answered or replied to a single thing I replied to. You ignore 75% of history to convince yourself that you're correct.
I'm thrilled you can make yourself feel better mentally by attacking others in such an immature manner. It suits you.
The conflict in the region is much more complicated than most "Team Israel" or "Team Palestine" wants to admit. The truth is both sides come out looking pretty terrible, but what Israel offered in the early-2000s is better than anything their adversary would've offered Israel if the power dynamics were reversed.
@David
Truest comment here. It isn't team anyone. But it also didn't start two weeks ago.
I love it when people like to bring up who started first and conveniently pick a date that fits their own side's claim.
2 days?
2 weeks?
2 years?
2 millenia?
Maybe it was the Iranian Neanderthals that smack the Israeli head first.
Who knows it might have been a Jewish T-Rex that ate the first Muslim velociraptor few hundred million years ago.
War hunger idiots.
@Eskimo
1979 seems appropriate. I'll start there. A regime started with the intent of the destruction of the Israeli state. Or we can start when the Iranians started a nuclear weapons program but the governments are largely the same in functioning practice since 1979
Nothing on the QR website and their flight status shows flights to DOH taking off from USA today. and DOH - Asia flights also operating today 6/23. very strange
You gotta feel for the crew
U.K. Foreign Sec just announced the same stay in place restrictions fior citizens in Qatar, I just saw on FR24 Qatari F15’s taking off but lost tracking after takeoff. Not good at all
Maybe next time we can ask our Israeli brethren to defend themselves, without getting dragged into their bullshit
You'd think we would have learned from the last time Netanyahu came calling with wild claims about certain Middle Eastern states' supposed nuclear weapons programs.
And that Orange taco and his junta ignored Congress and Europe, just went ahead. Sitting there in his MAGA cap. He’s an illiterate tv personality and yet here we are. Netanyahu is also half way up is backside.
Waiting for the Zionist peanut gallery to label me anti-Semitic
@Dusty
Netanyahu is a blood thirsty terrorist. US presidents boe their heads before him. Trump talked a lot of shit about ending wars before winning elections. Now he is getting into war with Iran for Israel.
*bow
@Dusty, no need to trust Netanyahu. The IAEA made the statement. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3v6w2qr12o
@Watson, I replied to that in more detail above. The statement doesn't say anything that we hadn't already known since the JCPOA was dissolved. It also doesn't say that Iran was building a nuclear bomb at all, let alone that they were close to completing one. Only that they had enriched uranium beyond the level necessary for just nuclear power. That's VERY different from what Netanyahu is saying, and putting out this statement now just...
@Watson, I replied to that in more detail above. The statement doesn't say anything that we hadn't already known since the JCPOA was dissolved. It also doesn't say that Iran was building a nuclear bomb at all, let alone that they were close to completing one. Only that they had enriched uranium beyond the level necessary for just nuclear power. That's VERY different from what Netanyahu is saying, and putting out this statement now just reeks of CYA to try and not rock the boat with Trump.