Where have I heard that before?
Posted on 04/15/2024 10:27:21 AM PDT by marshmallow
Iran launched a large-scale missile and drone attack into Israel overnight Saturday targeting military and intelligence sites in response to an Israeli attack on its Damascus Embassy compound April 1. Prime Minister Netanyahu has threatened to “hurt” Iran, while President Biden has reportedly said the US won’t assist in an Israeli counterattack.
Israel’s war cabinet has reportedly failed to reach a consensus on when and how to respond to Iran’s weekend missile and drone barrage, with Israeli media reporting that US pressure has complicated planning.
“There will be a response,” an anonymous Israeli official was quoted as saying by Israel Hayom. However, a final decision has not been made, and the cabinet is divided over what the form the response could take and its timing, according to a Times of Israel report.
War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz reportedly proposed launching an attack against Iran immediately, with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the Herzi Halevi, the head of the IDF, said to have been opposed to the idea. The Prime Minister’s office denied this information, saying “the opposite was true” regarding Netanyahu.
US media have reported that President Biden told the Israeli prime minister that Washington wouldn’t support any offensive action against Iran, calling the coordinated defense of Israeli airspace together with the UK, France and Jordan a “win” and promising “ironclad” US support for Tel Aviv going forward.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told media on Sunday that the US doesn’t “seek a wider war in the region. We don’t seek a war with Iran. And I think I’ll leave it at that.”
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Reading the article shows that the headline is misleading (though understandable given how much the Dims hate Israel). I thought from the headline that the map of Israel’s capabilities came from the US telling Israel’s secrets to Iran. But the article says that the “map” was from the experience Iran gained by studying how Israel shot down the missiles Iran launched at Israel.
click bait headline
However, Israel should take the same “never again” stance toward Iran that they have taken toward Hamas, borrowing their mantra regarding the holocaust. Whatever it takes, Iran should not be allowed the opportunity to attack Israel again, either by proxy or from their own soil. Israel should end this threat now, and in the process finally cut the head off the snake that is the driver of most Middle East terrorism.
Where have I heard that before?
Iran has the right to strike Israel after Israel assassinated a senior Iranian commander at the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria.
Don’t forget this important detail when the sh*t hits the fan.
That assassination, in the long run, may be the analog to the Archduke at Sarajevo incident in 1914.
It’s all mobile.
Dumbest article ever, trying to spin a complete failure into a supposed victory.
You mean the guy who planned and funded 10/7 attack?
Yeah, super unjustified to kill that bird.
He funded the 10/7 attack and the coordinated response from Hezbolla and the Houthis (and Hamas as far as they have been able to respond other than that death rattle coming from their collective throats). They destroyed the person who ordered and funded the largest attack on their soil for years.
Exactly right, and exactly what I said yesterday. Israel spends one BILLION shooting down $40K of drones and crap-rockets.
There is a theory that the reason why Israel risked blowback from the bombing of a consulate, was that there were multiple targets all located in the same place. It wasn't just the general that was killed, but others who helped supply Hamas with arms, manpower, logistics, etc. Having them all in the same place made it easier to kill them all. However, Israel knew it would not be viewed well by the international community and did it anyway.
Yeah, and I know Israel and we are not supposed to care a tinker's cuss about what the "international community" thinks, but sometimes great short term tactics lead to horrible long term strategies such as what looks like the beginnings of WWIII.
..and Iran has hundreds more of the missiles that DID get through.
Kidnapping Adolph Eichmann out of his villa in South America and stuffing his sorry rear into the trunk of a sedan pissed off the world community, too.
Sometimes, you just have to do what is right.
Cutting the head off the snake is an appealing idea but way easier said than done. Iran has ten times the population of Israel, and friendly arms deals with NK Russia and others. Even NATO Turkey is a covert Iranian supporter. And with Biden having agreeably lifted sanctions on Iranian oil, they now export ten times as much as they did under Trump, bringing in tens of billions of dollars from appreciative customers like China and India. So I don’t know what you want israel to do about this. Nuke ‘em? Not a good idea.
You are absolutely right. I can hear LBJ now, uttering the exact same words.
Nice try but, ain’t nobody buying that sh*t.
Those facts can lead to no conclusion other than that Iran is dangerous and belligerent, that it will become infinitely more dangerous once it has deployable nukes, and that its unprecedented direct attack on Israel implies a new level of confidence that should be highly concerning. This situation will not get better for Israel, or for the western world, if everyone continues to sit idly by and hope that Iran will just magically go away.
There will never be a better time (or maybe, “least bad” time) for Israel to act to eliminate the Iranian regime than right now. Iran has handed them the perfect justification, though I would argue they already had that after Iran planned and sponsored the despicable October 7th attack. Eliminating Hamas logically and unavoidably leads right to the mullahs’ doorstep.
Israel should not harm the largely anti-regime Iranian public, but must eliminate the regime itself and destroy any strategic military capabilities that enable Iran to project power. And eliminating Iran’s nuclear capability is long past due. Imagine the chaos the world would be plunged into if Iran gets nukes. And it is a hair’s breadth away. To argue that Iran should not be struck now, though there are certainly significant risks, is to argue that Iran can never be struck.
Nope. The Iranian embassy/consulate in Syria has no special protection under international law because it was in a third country. It WOULD be protected if it was in Israel or Iran. Israel is not stupid. Contrary to the constant media slandering of Israel, Israel is very careful about every move it makes. This was a legal strike.
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