Posted on 04/14/2024 4:51:05 PM PDT by Twotone
The conventional wisdom of the media and think-tanks agreed its line around the time the two-hundredth drone was shot down: Iran's assault on Israel was a flop.
A record number of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles were launched by the mullahs against the Zionist Entity: For the flight from Persia, a drone takes nine hours, a cruise two hours, and a ballistic missile about twelve minutes. Not a single drone or cruise missile made it to Israeli soil. A few of the ballistics penetrated the country's air space, lighting up the sky over the Temple Mount yet killing not a single Jew. An unlucky seven-year-old girl in a Bedouin encampment in the desert was injured by shrapnel, but for Tehran that's one lousy return on investment. For purposes of comparison, the usual West Bank bloodletting racked up a higher body count: a fourteen-year-old Israeli shepherd was found shot in the head yesterday.
Meanwhile, after six months in geopolitical Coventry, Israel is once again flush with allies:
(April 14, 2024 / JNS) The United States, United Kingdom and Jordan downed many of the over 300 projectiles launched at Israel by Iran overnight Sunday, while France also played a role in defending the Jewish state against the unprecedented attack.
The Jordanians were mostly concerned to protect their own territory from carelessly targeted incoming, the French are said to have confined their efforts to patrolling the airspace and giving a friendly head's up, and the British dispatched jets from the RAF base at Akrotiri to take out Iranian drones over Syria and Iraq.
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I thought that some state actor would have hacked into a drone guidance system and targeted the dome of the rock.
That would annoy Jordan. Neither Israel or Iran wants to annoy Jordan for various reasons.
...........if I were Netanyahu, I would quietly send an envoy to the mullahs. The envoy would have a list of the top 100 officers/commanders/killers/rapists involved with Hamas in the October 7 attack.
The list would say at the bottom something like: “Dear Mullah, we will trade you Kharg Island for everyone on this list DEAD or Alive. If any of them are already dead, put their bones in a plastic garbage bag. We already have each one’s DNA.
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