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eretzyisrael · 4 months

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by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

Today, the Islamic State's al-Furqan media released a new speech from Islamic State spokesman Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari. The speech, entitled "And kill them wherever you find them" (taken from Qur'an 2:191), focused primarily on the Israel-Gaza war but was a very predictable reiteration of the group's talking points: (i) that the battle in Palestine is a religious war against Jews, and not one about liberation to establish a national homeland, (ii) denunciation of the various 'nationalist' Palestinian factions and those like Hamas aligned with the broader Iranian-led 'resistance' axis, which is utilised by Iran as a Shi'i expansionist project that is no less dangerous if not more so to Islam and Muslims than the state of Israel, (iii) the various Sunni Arab governments are 'apostate' entities that are part of the Jewish-'Crusader' alliance against Islam, (iv) the correct form of jihad is one the Islamic State pursues to establish the rule of God's law, and fighting all the disbelievers.

Within this context, the Islamic State has now launched a new expedition entitled "Kill them wherever you find them," beginning with claiming responsibility for the two bombings that took place on in the hometown of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force commander Qasim Sulaymani on the fourth anniversary of his assassination by the Americans. As soon as the sheer scale of the killing of people in such an indiscriminate terrorist attack, it became evident to me that the bombings were likely an Islamic State operation (though it is always wise to wait and see if the group claims a particular attack). Blaming Israel for the incident, as John Hopkins professor Vali Nasr did, was frankly ludicrous. It is simply not Israel's modus operandi to engage in such terroristic acts inside Iran: rather, Israel pursues carefully targeted killings for specific goals like undermining Iran's nuclear program. The suggestions that the attacks might have been an inside Iranian job also struck me as ridiculous.

These attacks illustrate the Islamic State's unchanging basic worldview and that it is ultimately a marginal player in wider regional geopolitics. The Islamic State pursues an ideologically purist agenda based on fighting all others who do not share its rigid political program, wherever it is possible for the group's members and supporters to do so. Ultimately, this amounts to the same old messaging and the same old tactics. While there was concern that these bombings would somehow trigger further 'regional escalation,' they are in reality a sideshow, especially now that the Islamic State has officially claimed the attacks.

Below is the statement by Islamic State claiming responsibility for the Iran bombings, translated by me.

As part of the 'And kill them wherever you find them' expedition: the killing and wounding of more than 300 of the idolatrous Rafidites [Shi'a] in a dual martyrdom operation [suicide bombing] in Iran.

Iran: Thursday, 22 Jumada al-Akhira 1445 AH

Through granting of success by God Almighty, and as part of the 'And kill them wherever you find them' expedition, two martyrdom operative brothers- Omar al-Muwahhid and Sayf Allah al-Mujahid (may God Almighty accept them both)- headed yesterday towards a great gathering of idolatrous Rafidites, near the tomb of their hypocrite leader 'Qasim Sulaymani' in the town of Kerman in southern Iran. There, they blew up their explosive belts amid their gathering. This resulted in the killing and wounding of more than 300 idolatrous Rafidites. Thanks and praise be to God.

May the idolatrous Rafidites know that the mujahidin lie in wait for them and their projects, by the permission of God Almighty.

#isis #islamic state #terrorism #terror attack #iran #terror attack in iran

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liberty1776 · 4 months

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#Terror Attack in Iran #Ron Paul

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matan4il · 14 days

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As we still don't know how and when Israel is going to respond to the massive Iranian attack, the Iranian-funded terrorist organization Hezbollah hits Israel with a drone attack for the second day in a row, this time it hit a Bedouin (Muslim Arab) Israeli town and injured 18. On TV, they're reporting that the 18 people injured are Israeli soldiers, who were stationed in the town in order to protect its Muslim Arab population. Six of the soldiers are said to be in a serious state.

And here's an Iranian woman to remind you all that if you're standing with the Islamis regime of Iran, just so you can stand against Israel, then the regular Iranians are judging you...

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

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sheerkhurma · 18 days

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Right to defend themselves, right? Resistance is soo beautiful, isn't it?

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simplysiriuslyjoking · 18 days

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Another video of the attack in a different part of the country.

I wish this upon any person who is antizionist/antisemitism.

#israel #ישראבלר #tumblr #טאמבלר ישראלי #antisemitism #terrorism #palestine #judaism #חרבות ברזל #iran #iran attack

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cavalierzee · 10 days

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Israel's Real Iron Dome

Arab Leaders were installed to safeguard Israel and Western interests, not to liberate their occupied lands nor liberate Occupied Palestine.

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jloisse · 8 days

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🔴 Moussa Abu Marzouq, adjoint du bureau politique du Hamas :

« Après la réponse de l'Iran, le nombre de martyrs parmi notre peuple dans la bande de Gaza a diminué jusqu'au niveau le plus bas. »

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workersolidarity · 4 months

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[the moment explosions rocked the Iranian city of Kerman where mourners gathered to commemorate the 4th martyrdom anniversary of Gen. Soleimani]

🇮🇷 🧨💥🚑☠️ 🚨

💥EXPLOSIONS ROCK KERMAN, IRAN, THE BURIAL SITE OF QASSAM SOLEIMANI ON ANNIVERSARY OF ASSASSINATION💥

Explosions rocked the burial site of assassinated Iranian General Qassam Soleimani on the anniversary of his assassination by the United States Wednesday.

According to reports, upwards of 103 were killed and another 141 wounded in Kerman, Iran when two explosions rocked a ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of Qassam Soleimani's assassination by U.S. forces.

Medical sources said they expect the death toll to rise as ambulance services transported the dead and wounded to hospital, with the Deputy head of Iran's emergency services, Babak Yektaparast, emphasizing that many of the injured are in critical condition.

Iranian State-News service IRNA said the first explosion occured about 700 meters from Soleimani's burial site, while a second explosion occured about a kilometer away.

Tasnim news agency is reporting that two bags loaded with explosives were remotely detonated, causing the explosions.

The first explosion took place at approximately 2:50pm local time, with the second explosion taking place roughly 10 minutes later.

Iran's Red Crescent Society announced three of their rescue personnel were killed in the second explosion. Some were also injured when the crowd rushed to escape after the explosions.

In response to the explosions, Iran's Minister of the Interior, Ahmad Vahidi the Iranian News Network that a "crushing" response will soon be given to the culprits.

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tomorrowusa · 7 months

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While monitoring events in the Middle East, don't take your eyes off of Putin.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas is not unrelated to Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine.

From Josh Rogin in the Washington Post.

The current temporary government funding bill expires at the end of November. That’s also the deadline for approving U.S. aid to Ukraine before real damage is done to Kyiv’s ability to continue fighting. The House will feel pressure to pass an Israel-Ukraine funding bill quickly if the Senate sends it over. But it’s a high-risk gambit. “If the administration and Ukraine supporters in the House and Senate don’t get together and push this through, it is very possible that Ukraine aid will not pass in the House at all,” a senior GOP congressional aide told me. “This is going to be a fight and it’s not going to be easy. But this is one of the only realistic paths forward now for Ukraine aid.” It’s worth noting that Russian propaganda outlets are eager to present U.S. aid to Israel and Ukraine as contradictory, with President Biden forced to choose between them. The Russian government has not condemned the Hamas terrorist attacks. The Kremlin is asserting that Ukraine has sent weapons to Hamas, while Kyiv claims that Hamas received captured Ukrainian arms from Moscow.

You know Putin is desperate when he's trying to get people to believe that Ukraine is somehow sending arms to Hamas. He's apparently appealing to the lowest IQ people on the planet.

Iran and Russia are on the same side. Iran underwrites Hamas, they are the wealthiest terrorist group around today. Russia has a large presence in Syria which is next to Lebanon where Trump's favorite terrorist group Hezbollah is active.

Yet Russia is right to suggest that the two wars are connected. For one thing, Iranian assistance plays heavily into both conflicts. Iran is supplying drones to Russia to kill Ukrainian civilians and likely helped Hamas to develop the drone capability it just used to kill Israeli civilians.

Iran builds drones which Russia, backed by the House Putin Caucus, uses to kill Ukrainians.

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anthonybialy · 17 days

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Iran As Bad At Attacking Israel As Anything Else

Iran just sent its economy to be destroyed. They didn’t set anything aside to have their twisted version of fun next weekend. The living medieval museum spent 87 percent of its GDP on drones that turned into an Israeli fireworks show. The one Middle Eastern country you’d choose to live in is resented by everyone around it for ruining the grade curve.

The Persian Empire’s remnants still have their weeds. But they won’t sell for much. Geopolitical experts debate whether brilliant mullahs knew their allegedly noble flying armada would be destroyed or thought they’d destroy what they aimed to hit, which you may recognize as the Middle East’s only functioning spot. Israel sighs as it defends the neighborhood’s societal outpost yet again.

Iran is a Batman villain without the character. Caricatured reprobates can’t even seem compelling as they spread chaos. A rabid all-time dastard certainly isn’t going to generate something useful. But they sure will try to wreck the output of those not residing in the Third or Fourth World. True professional deadbeats are so jealous of the productive that they will set out to destroy them so everyone’s equally miserable. At least we know why liberals sympathize with them.

Even remedial countries know Israel makes sure attacks more than even out.

So, who would be dim enough to strike first? Iran raises its hand. A place which hasn’t discovered civilization lacks the impulse control to foresee consequences. It’s easy to see why they’re on eternal probation unless you’re them. The Carl Showalters of the world don’t think ahead about their assaults. If they did, they’d be able to create a nation that offered more than sand and terror as exports.

Ungrateful Westerners who romanticize brutes enable gall. A nation that’s primitive for the ninth century didn’t learn their lesson. Or, they did in the same sense that unpunished bullies continue to operate wedgie rackets. Moronic hooligans still possess the instinct to learn they can get away with lashing out if teachers are negligent.

The UN is rushing to vote to blame Israel for getting in the way of Iran’s drones. Our globe features a forum for recognizing commonalities. Unfortunately, that often means anti-Semitism given the frequent appalling tendencies of many members of our species. Gathering everyone together to talk out problems is counterproductive when there are so many awful idiots.

An assembly of Borats knows who’s the cause of every planetary ill. They just know that there would be no more warfare, poverty, or mosquito bites if a sliver of a country with a legislature and pride parades no longer had the nerve to guard from bloodthirsty pillagers.

Losers blaming Jews for their failures is not just for disheartening Twitter replies. The oldest prejudice is popular amongst shrieking hateful lunatics who run entire countries. To be fair, they’re not good countries. Iran is Earth’s Limp Bizkit.

The barbarian state’s enablers enjoy a weekend packed with even more fun than class warfare. Iran’s BFF Barack Obama struggles to not refer to Iran’s meagerly diabolical barrage as second Christmas. Ben Rhodes thinks missile footage is NSFW. And Tommy Vietor has never been happier to have gotten the most undeserving promotion from van driver.

Humans who aren’t arrogant in decline are left pondering how life got this dangerous while ducking for cover. The question of whether the Party of Biden enabled Iran deliberately out of contempt for all things decent or were legitimately daft remains unanswered. As is often the case with Democratic devastation, the rotten result of believing they could befriend an asylum with an Olympic team is the same either way.

Flaccid appeasement doesn’t stop unprovoked attacks as well as expected. Fake tough guys are truly easy to spot. Look at this dump since this White House strolled into power for countless examples of disregarded orders. Iran stopped listening to Joe Biden commanding “Don’t” halfway through the word. Edgar Wright knew it was a joke.

The incumbent laments not increasing Iran’s allowance. Stingy American taxpayers could’ve turned Iran into New Eden if they allowed Obama to send a second pallet of cash, but they were such babies about dropping off one. The Islamic Republic’s centrifuges would be used as ice cream churns today if we had just heeded the gentle wisdom of Marie Harf.

Bribery always works, according to those who dole it without funding it. The same people who think printing money is about to make everyone rich believe hush money will turn goons into pals. The good news about inflation is that it devalued Iran’s kitty.

It’s easy to guess who started this again. Craven fiends who attacked a music festival have an ideological ally in a nation sending missiles at the not very precise target of a whole country. The intended ground zero will righteously preserve itself for the crime of existing even as they’re condemned for it.

The good guys have never been easier to identify, which confuses those who claim they’re anti-fascist because they torched cities with their faces concealed. Comparing themselves to D-Day liberators is a typically pompous notion by those condemning Israel for responding. Getting attacked by the wicked for the being decent is as predictable as anti-Semitism. There’s no greater test of faith than doing what’s right in a very wrong world.

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mightyflamethrower · 6 months

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william-r-melich · 16 days

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A Two-Word Solution - 04/15/2024

I hate all this war stuff. I wasn't looking forward to writing this article, but it is something I must do. We find ourselves as a country in a precarious situation of teetering on the edge of being pulled into a major, global conflict. I gathered some information from Joshua Philipp's podcast on Epoch Times, Crossroads. He read the following from an article in the "Express" in UK, published at 10:12 (their local time) on Sunday, April 14, 2024, updated the same day at 12:06.

"The possibility of Iran ramping up its enrichment activities to acquire a nuclear weapon has sent shockwaves through the region and in the West."

"Iran has already vowed to launch a 'stronger' offensive against Israel's response to Saturday's attack."

"A new government-funded billboard in Palestine Square in Tehran was unveiled last night after Iran launched hundreds of drones, missiles, and rockets at Israel with Hebrew text."

"Senior Iranian figures have urged Supreme Leader Khamenei to reconsider the country's stance on nuclear weapons, with calls to cancel the existing fatwa against their assembly."

"The shift in rhetoric has led to speculation in the West about Iran's intentions and the Supreme Leader's willingness to entertain the idea of pursuing nuclear armament."

"Mahmoud-Reza Aghamir, a prominent nuclear physics professor with ties to the Iranian regime, further fueled suspicions by suggesting that 'it would be a lot easier to build a bomb than to keep holding so much enriched uranium at high levels.'"

"Iran's possession of 150 Kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent" (which is the threshold for Israel to send counter attacks against Iran.) "has raised alarms about the potential for weaponization."

"Israel is closely monitoring these developments, aware that any move towards nuclear capabilities by Iran could prompt a significant military response from the United States."

"The fear is that Iran could discretely advance its nuclear program, leaving intelligence agencies as the only means of detecting such activities."

Sounds pretty iffy to me, a lot of what they could do. Yet, I suppose Israel needs to error on the side of pre-empting any possible nuclear attack. After Iran sent over 200 missiles and drones toward Israel, Israel, the U.S., and other allies knocked down 99% of them, leaving very little damage and seriously injuring a 10 year-old girl. My heart and thoughts go out to her and her family, I hope she'll be okay.

On his podcast this morning, Joshua Philipp had stated that the United States policy of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is no longer in place. So, if a country uses a nuclear bomb on us or one of our major allies, then we would nuke them. When Russia threatened had threatened to possibly nuke Ukraine, the U.S. only threatened Russia with "economic and diplomatic harm." That's too weak of a response, in my opinion. So, if they use a nuke, we'll use a money-clip. Hell, we might as well use a paperclip.

I caught an informative article on Josh's show this morning which came from Time magazine back in November 2022, the headline reads:

"World Leaders Condemn Putin's War, Nuclear Threats Amid Pressure Campaign Against Russia"

"The U.S. and other world leaders issued a joint declaration Wednesday condemning Russia's War in Ukraine and denouncing threats of using nuclear weapons, an intimidation tactic that's become commonplace for Russian President Vladimir Putin since launching his invasion nine months ago."

"'The use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible', read the statement, composed by the world's 20 largest economies. 'The peaceful resolution of conflicts, efforts to address crises, as well as diplomacy and dialogue, are vital. Today's era must not be of war.'"

"The 17-page document marks a victory for the Biden Administration and global allies, which sought to end this year's summit in Bali, Indonesia with a statement censuring Russia for its unprovoked military campaign in Ukraine. In recent weeks, the Biden team has launched a discreet, multi-pronged effort to pressure Moscow to dial back the increasingly reckless bluster that has sparked fears the world was nearing the brink of nuclear war."

"Through a series of one-on one discussions and back channels between top U.S. and Russian officials, combined with diplomatic maneuvering with other nations' leaders, the Administration has worked to get Putin and his government to stop threatening the use of nuclear weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine, where Moscow has faced mounting losses, this fall."

"In a rare disclosure on Monday, the White House revealed CIA Director William Burns met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin in Ankara, Turkey's capital, to discuss potential costs to the Kremlin if it decides to use a nuclear weapon in the Ukraine conflict. 'He is not conducting negotiations of any kind,' a White House spokeswoman said. 'He is conveying a message on the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons by Russia, and the risks of escalation to strategic stability.'"

"The same day, President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping issued a joint-statement that said nuclear weapons should never be used, particularly in Ukraine. The rebuke was notworthy considering Beijing has tacitly approved of Putin's actions and shown reticence to join the international community's widespread condemnation of invasion."

"Read more: U.S. Unveils Strategy Threats from China and Russia."

"The message the U.S. seeks to send is clear: if Moscow goes nuclear in Ukraine, it will only experience further economic and diplomatic isolation on the world stage. There are indications that the strategy, which has gathered momentum behind the scenes since late September after Putin illegally annexed four occupied regions of Ukraine then suggested he'd defend the territory with nuclear arms, may be working. Putin back tracked late last month by stating Russia would gain nothing through launching a nuclear strike. 'We see no need for that,' he said October 27 at a conference of international foreign policy experts. 'There is no point in that, neither political nor military.'"

"Concerned observers are cautiously optimistic that the U.S. approach will continue to draw Putin away from the nuclear threshold, but they worry about the ongoing instability of relation between the world's foremost nuclear powers. 'The Biden team has been effective in cautioning Putin not to cross the nuclear line, warning of the consequences, and quietly encouraging others with influence like China to provide similar messages to Putin. They've done this very adeptly while avoiding provocations,' says Lynn Rusten, vice president at the Nuclear Threat Initiative and former senior official on arms control." In my opinion, I think this writer is being too kind to Briben (Biden). I really don't think he's effective in deterring Putin's aggression.

This next article just came out in the Epoch Times: "Israel Announces It Will Respond to Iran Missile Attack as Airlines Cancel Flights to Region." It begins with this: "Israel's miliary chief said on April 15 that Israel will respond to Iran's missile and drone attack, but it's not clear how or when."

"Herzi Halevi, head of the Israel Defense Forces, told reporters that Iran's strikes "will be met with a response" without elaborating. He spoke during a visit to the Nevatim air base, which Israel sayts suffered light damage in the Iranian attack.

“Iran wanted to harm the strategic capabilities of the State of Israel—that is something that had not happened before. We were prepared for the ‘Iron Shield’ operation—preparation that brought Iran to also meet air superiority,” he said. “Last Monday, we saw what was being organized, and we think that the State of Israel is very strong and knows how to deal with it alone, but with a threat so numerous and so far away, we are always happy to have [the United States] with us. Looking ahead, we are considering our steps, and this launch of so many missiles, cruise missiles, and UAVs into the territory of the State of Israel will be met with a response.”

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been huddling with top officials to discuss a possible response to Iran’s attack involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles."

"Iran’s attack on April 13 was the first time Tehran directly targeted Israel since the current regime took over in 1979. However, the country has been engaged in proxy attacks against both Israel and the United States originating from a number of Middle Eastern countries."

"On April 15, a number of airline companies canceled or delayed flights again after the Iranian missile and drone attack. United Airlines and Air Canada, notably, canceled some flights into Tel Aviv as well as flights into Jordan."

"Iranian officials said the attack was carried out in response to an Israeli airstrike on April 1 on a Syrian compound that left two Iranian generals and other officials dead."

"'Our response will be much larger than tonight’s military action if Israel retaliates against Iran,' armed forces chief of staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri told state-run media in articles published on April 14. He claimed that Iran warned the United States through Switzerland that any support of an Israeli counterattack against Iran would lead to American assets being targeted."

"After the drones and missiles were launched, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard issued a direct warning to the United States through state-run IRNA that the 'U.S. government is warned any support or participation in harming Iran’s interests will be followed by decisive and regretting response by Iran’s armed forces.'"

U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said this on April 15 on whether the U.S. will be briefed on any response plans of Israel: "We will let the Israelis speak to that. "We are not involved in their decision-making process about a potential response."

"The Iranian attack on April 13 was the first time that Iran has launched a direct military assault on Israel, despite decades of enmity dating back to the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. The attack happened less than two weeks after a suspected Israeli strike in Syria that killed two Iranian generals in an Iranian consular building."

"Israel’s military stated that its Arrow system, which shoots down ballistic missiles outside the atmosphere, handled most interceptions and noted that 'strategic partners' were involved."

"U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that U.S. military forces 'intercepted dozens of missiles and UAVs en route to Israel, launched from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen,' referring to a term used for unmanned aerial vehicles."

"'At my direction, to support the defense of Israel, the U.S. military moved aircraft and ballistic missile defense destroyers to the region over the course of the past week,' President Joe Biden said in a separate statement over the past weekend. “Thanks to these deployments and the extraordinary skill of our service members, we helped Israel take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles."

"Israel and Iran have been on a collision course throughout Israel’s six-month war against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip after members of the group carried out a cross-border attack that left more than 1,200 civilians dead. More than 250 people were kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023, incident, according to officials. Israel’s government is still negotiating with Hamas for the release of the remaining hostages."

"The Associated Press contributed to this report."

With the weakness of the current appeaser-in-thief, Shmoe Briben (Joe Biden), this is absolutely the worst time for an imminent threat of a world war, let alone a nuclear one. I see this compromised-corrupt-oatmeal-for-brains-commie-ander-in-disbelief as not doing any affective deterrence, lying all the time and saying all the wrong things as he makes everything about himself on what a great job he's doing; all the while he's really been doing everything possible to cause this horrible situation which never would have happened under Donald Trump. Yes, most definitely he caused this dumb war by funding a major adversary of ours with billions of dollars which went directly to the terrorists who barbarically raped, tortured, and murdered so many innocent Israeli citizens; men, women, and children: brutally cutting out eyes, chopping off limbs, burning and beheading babies. Briben has a lot of blood on his hands which makes me both sickened and angry to the core. This kid-sniffing, corrupt bag of a rotting maggot, sub-human creature in the White House; wantonly funding such demon-savage, terrorist thugs is a heinous act driven by stupidity on steroids on a level of evil that falls perpetually deep into the infinite pits of darkness...

Yet, my hope is that I'm wrong in assuming that he'll not do enough of the right thing, and too much of the wrong thing to prevent a major global conflict. Realistically, I don't think it will come to that because Iran has to know that in spite of all the wokeness in our military at the top ranks, we would wipe them off the map in a direct war with them. I believe that China is waiting in the wings for us to get involved with at least a couple more wars while being hit with multiple, domestic terror attacks so that we'll be distracted and spread out thinly enough to give them a better chance at defeating us. We must make it to the election this November and get Trump re-elected. We must defeat Shmoe Briben, as Trump says, "get out of here, you're fired!" If we don't, we'll be seriously futticked! What a mess! Aside from the obvious, needed act of cutting off all the funding to Iran and their terrorist proxies, I have a simple, 2-word solution; stop fighting!

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matan4il · 15 days

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I've written before that the Iranian attack on Israel is pretty unprecedented, and I was thinking in terms of the history of this specific conflict, but it's actually true on a bigger scale as well.

They launched at least 331 airborne weapons that Israel has intercepted as well, more if you take into account what was intercepted by other countries. Most of the weapons were launched out of Iran itself, but some were launched by Iran's proxies from the territories of Yemen and Syria.

Now, the suicide drones? Take about 8 hours to make it from Iran to Israel. The cruise missiles? Around 4 hours. And the ballistic missiles? Those are the ones that would cause the most damage and would be the hardest to intercept, they actually leave the Earth's atmosphere, travel in outer space and re-enter right before they strike, and they move at such a speed that they make it from Iran to Israel within just 10 minutes. So imagine what it means, that Iran launched all of these weapons at different times, from different locations, but coordinated everything to make sure they'd all hit Israel at roughly the same time. That was done in order to tax our defence systems, to maximize how much would get through and succeed in hurting Israelis. Despite that, 100% of the drones were intercepted, as were 100% of the cruise missiles, and 99% of the ballistic missiles. Only one person (a 7 year old Muslim Bedouine girl, Amin al-Houssani, was injured, please keep her in your thoughts) was directly hurt (though over 60 more people were indirectly harmed).

Defence systems usually aim for a success rate of between 80 to 90% interceptions, so the fact that this MASSIVE and UNPRECEDENTED attack was launched, designed to penetrate all of the defence systems that could be employed against it for maximal damage, yet Israel and the coalition that came together (including Arab countries) to stop Iran's attack managed to make sure that less than 1% got in? Unbelievable. The attack was unprecedented, and so was the defence. I can tell you, even some of the Israelis who worked on developing our defence systems for years felt the success rate had actually exceeded their expectations. That said, the attack was bigger than anyone in Israel thought it would be, too.

Just to really drive home what a ballistic missile is like, this is just the engine carrying part of this ballistic missile, which was intercepted over the Dead Sea (Iran launched at least 110 at Israel, 99% of which were successfully intercepted):

But even intercepted airborne weapons cause damage. Little Amina was hit by debris from an interception. I'm sharing a vid, cut from the news (it's just for visuals, so I didn't translate it), which shows one of the few hits inside Israel (filmed by Israeli Muslim Arab Bedouins, you can hear one of them calling in panic to his friend, Ramadan), and then the debris that the IDF collected and removed by trucks, to give you an idea of the size of these pieces of weapons, falling from the sky, after they had flown across 1,600 kilometers (~1000 miles):

Bottom line, it's no surprise that the Israeli Chief of Staff made it clear that there will be an Israeli response. We don't know yet what kind of a response it would be, or when it will take place, but there will be one. This kind of attack from Iran just can't be met with silence. If it were, that would imply acceptance of the massive and unprecedented nature of the attack, which in themselves constitute evidence that Iran very much did intend to cause Israel real damage.

That means if Israel accepts the attack with a shrug of, "hey, we inetrcepted it, and it only cost us 5 billion shekels, so we can just look the other way," then next time? Iran will launch an even bigger attack, to try and get past this remarkable defence. And there will be a next Iranian attack, no matter what excuse they use in order to launch it.

In related news, the Iranian-funded terrorist organization Hezbollah has launched two attack drones at Israel today, which did not set off the warning alarms, crashed in Israeli territory, caused a fire, and wounded at least 3 people.

Meanwhile, this is a reminder that while the Islamist regime of Iran has had a lot of victims since its inception in 1979, no one has suffered at its hands more than the Iranian People. It's no wonder that there are signs of Israel support in Iran, even under that oppressive dictatorship. Here's a graffiti seen in Tehran:

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