> your exaggerated language presents a distorted slant, and such one-sided rhetoric, especially when repeated many times, actually contributes to the political shifts and the spirals of violence that you worry about.

Definitely constitutes as you being exaggerative.

You knew what I meant. This wasn’t about a fallacy of understanding, it was a technical pedantry.

Hence why I said I agree with your general point but you’re also missing my point and exaggerating things: yes you’re right that Israel and Iran are not literal neighbours but my point was meant to be the general theme of their foreign policy rather than a literal geography lesson.

This discussion is getting rather silly now though. Especially when I don’t think either one of us disagrees with the actual point the other was making.