Let's face it Iran is indiscriminatly hitting Israeli civilians targets including schools using cluster bombs.....

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Iran is firing missiles into heavily populated Israeli towns and have abandoned the pretence of targeting anything military.....this is just pure terrorism and does make you think what would happen if Iran did manage to develop a nuclear weapon.

Just hoping more of the missile launch sites can be taken out and this terrorist regime falls.

It's a filthy corner of MN not a reference to individual posters.

Why is it 'filthy'?

When I said exempt I meant the countries Iran were exempting, China etc

How is it filthy?

You've got the wrong end of the stick, not for the first time.

What's the right end? Please do explain.

Because we argue all day is how I took it.

Aren't you aware that other MN users on other sections of the site consider Conflict in the Middle East as a toxic board. Most people stay away from it even if they have strong opinions on the Iran war say, which they express on other boards such as AIBU.

Maybe @Twiglets1 and @dairydebris care to explain the 'filthy corner' comment to avoid 'getting the wrong side of the stick'

Nobody keeping an eye on the news ? Latest TRUTH attached below.

Missed that in all the excitement of a throw away comment.

There is no-one in the Whitehouse standing up to Trump. Whitehouse communications will diligently parrot his latest whim, and then pretend it never happened the next day - have you not watched any of Karoline Leavitt's pressers? She will insist that up is down and left is right if Trump currently believes that, and anyone who disagrees is 'fake news'. She, and the rest of the staffers know exactly what happens to anyone who dares to question him.

It wasn’t a throwaway comment. You saw fit to highlight it.

Do you have evidence that Hezbollah is gaining support from local Lebanese in the conflict with Israel because the evidence I have shows that the local Lebanese blame Hezbollah for starting an unnecessary war with Israel.

Still I understand that given a choice between condemning Israel or condemning Hezbollah (or Hamas as well) for some "unknown" reason the blame, especially from the left, always falls on Israel.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/lebanon-anger-with-hezbollah-war-returns-to-weary-beirut

https://www.meforum.org/mef-observer/it-is-hezbollahs-war-not-lebanons

You still haven't explained why discussing an illegal war is filthy after praising @dairydebris for their turn of phrase

Aren't you aware that other MN users on other sections of the site consider Conflict in the Middle East as a toxic board.

Very aware but I don't think it's for the reasons you think it is.
MN in general is one of the most toxic spaces I've been on.

Seriously the whole concept of legal and illegal wars goes out of the window when your adversary wages conflict illegally whether that be in military support for Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis or being behind 20 attempted terrorist attacks against the UK.

If you try and fight an adversary following "international rules"
whilst they don't then you will lose, it's that simple.

I think that’s just a deflection from the use of the word filthy.

most people accept that Israel isn't a danger to anyone unless that party first attacks them
Don't accept that view at all. The majority of rhetoric everywhere now - online, opinion pieces, journalists etc suggest the complete opposite.

and in this filthy little corner of mumsnet
Generally understood to mean nasty or vile so who or what are you referring to here.

Jeez - I'm jealous- if you think MN is the most toxic spaces you've been on then you must be in a very sheltered sunshine and lollipops existence.

With a laughing emoji.

Whoops no laughing emoji ... that's suspicious in itself isn't it.

https://fpif.org/the-u-s-israeli-war-on-iran-is-illegal-heres-why-that-matters/

I don’t think adding an emoji makes the word filthy less pejorative.

I clicked on that and I think it gives your Instagram name?

I didn't say discussing "an lllegal war" is filthy - no one did.

That the CITME board has a certain reputation with other MN users who tend to avoid it is not something I can fully explain. But of course we do argue a lot and personal attacks & accusations get made on a daily basis.