Posted on 01/10/2009 3:45:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Israel's relentless offensive to crush the radical Palestinian Hamas movement in Gaza is the opening salvo of the country's wider campaign to confront the mounting threat posed by Iran to the survival of the Jewish state.
While the Israeli military's immediate focus is to destroy Hamas's ability to terrorise Israel's southern border, the military campaign should be seen within the wider context of Israel's growing resolve to deal with the combined danger of Iran's continuing support for Islamic terrorist groups and its controversial uranium enrichment programme. The Israeli government sees both of these as direct threats to the country's existence.
So far as Israel is concerned, 2009 is the year that, given Iran's current rate of progress with uranium enrichment, will decide whether the mullahs succeed in their dream of becoming a nuclear power. Given the repeated statements President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has made about destroying Israel, the Israelis are rightly concerned that a nuclear-armed Iran would constitute a grave threat to its future survival.
At the same time the Israeli authorities are deeply alarmed by Iran's continued support for radical Islamic groups located on the country's northern and southern borders, both of which are committed to Israel's ultimate destruction. Both the radical Shia Hizbollah militia in southern Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza are funded and equipped by the Iranian regime, whose Revolutionary Guards travel regularly to the region to brief the groups on strategy.
Senior Revolutionary Guard commanders helped to supervise Hizbollah's rocket attacks against Israel during the war that erupted in southern Lebanon in the summer of 2006 after Hizbollah militants ambushed an Israeli patrol and kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. And many of the rockets that hit towns and villages in northern Israel were provided by Tehran.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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