Ah, how easy it is for our political and media elites, living safely in the West, to lecture embattled Israel, now engaged in a seven-front war (in Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran), on its need to exercise “self-restraint.” It’s especially grotesque advice when the fons et origo of so much of the region’s strife comes from Iran, through its malignant proxies — Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen — and the Islamic Republic is now not only seeing those proxies being crushed, but has itself proven incapable of landing a successful counterpunch. Its latest volley of 180 rockets flung at Israel in early October were aimed at military bases and Mossad headquarters.
Several rockets did hit their intended target, the Netavim airbase, but instead of damaging planes or military infrastructure, the attack resulted in minor damage, mainly to housing. Another target was Mossad headquarters, which remained unscathed. There was only one casualty from this volley of rockets — an Arab hit by shrapnel in the village of Ne’ima, near Jericho. This second Iranian volley of rockets — after the 300 rockets launched towards Israel in April, almost all of which were shot down, with the handful that did get through causing no damage — was even more humiliating for the Iranians than the first.
While Biden and so many others are counseling Israel to “exercise restraint” in its confrontation with Iran, the London journalist Brendan O’Neill is having none of it. He smites these self-satisfied simpletons telling Israel that it needs to “de-escalate” hip and thigh here: “Is this the death rattle of Iranian tyranny?,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, October 2, 2024:
So now we know it is possible for something to be both horrific and farcical. The known death toll of the wave of missiles fired by Iran into Israel yesterday is as follows: Israelis 0, Palestinians 1. Yes, the Islamic Republic, in its preening, violent display of solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon against the Great Satan of the Jewish State, laid waste to just one life. That of a 37-year-old labourer from Gaza who’d been living near Jericho in the West Bank, brutally slain by the falling shrapnel from one of Iran’s missiles. The Israelophobes of social media who salivated over Iran’s attack were cheering a military operation that killed yet another Gazan. You couldn’t make it up.
Of course, the merciful lack of Israeli fatalities should not detract from the fact that that was clearly Iran’s aim: to maim and kill the Jews of this nation that it hates above all others. When you fire 180 ballistic missiles at a state, with little advance warning, you know, and in Iran’s case hope, that death may very well ensue. That it didn’t, that only one, poor Palestinian perished under Iran’s rockets, is a testament to the extraordinarily high value Israel places on the lives of its citizens. Its Iron Dome intercepted much of Iran’s lethal arsenal, while its vast network of bomb shelters shielded civilians from the Iranian terror. It would appear that the Jewish desire to survive prevailed over the mullahs’ urge to kill.
And yet even as we grapple with the seriousness of what Iran did, with the criminality of its onslaught, it is important to clock Iran’s weaknesses, too. Are we witnessing the death rattle of Iranian tyranny? It is impossible to overstate the size of the blow Iran has experienced this past week, and this past year. The ruthless theocracy’s entire proxy strategy, its use of Islamist armies like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis to shore up its influence to its west, lies virtually in tatters. For now, at least….
It is such self-satisfied cant. How easy it is for Biden officials who live in leafy DC, and Britain’s liberal scribes who rarely venture from their East London bubbles, to insist that Israel patiently deter Iran rather than clash with it. Missiles paid for by Tehran are not dropping on Shoreditch or Martha’s Vineyard day in, day out. Militants backed by Iran did not recently swarm London or New York City to rape, kidnap and kill civilians. There aren’t Iran stooges mere miles from our towns threatening to excise our ‘cancerous’ presence from our own lands….
Israel is not only protecting itself when it crushes Hamas in Gaza and is now doing the same to Hezbollah in Lebanon. It is stymying Iran’s imperial designs on the entire region. Iran is an ally of Russia and China, a threat not just to Israel, and to such Sunni Arabs as the Saudis and Emiratis, but to the entire West. And because of Israel’s valiant efforts and devastating victories on so many fronts, the humiliated and confused regime in Tehran, now waiting fearfully for the Jewish state’s response to its latest failed rocket attack, is beginning to crack. Enemies within Iran of the regime are taking heart from the defeat of its proxies and its inability to land a real blow on the Jewish state. The Israelis are now determined, despite whatever discouragement emanates from the Bidenites, to exploit the Islamic Republic’s current disarray, after seeing its proxy Hamas dismantled, and its proxy Hezbollah now being subject to a similar battering that the Iranians never expected, and to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. The Biden administration, with characteristic wrongheadedness, is trying to hold Israel back from this attack. But such an attack on Iran’s nuclear program would benefit not only Israel but the entire non-Muslim world. Washington should instead be providing the IDF with whatever it thinks it needs, including delivery of its heaviest, 30,000 pound MOPs (Massive Ordnance Penetrators).
It bears repeating: as Brendan O’Neill insists, cutting to the heart of the matter, “you are either on the side of a barbarous theocratic regime that oppresses and murders women, workers and minorities and whose allies recently carried out the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, or you are on the side of Israel. It’s time to choose.”
Right on, Mr. O’Neill. And as the Protestant hymn has it — “Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.”
somehistory says
One is either on the side of good, or that one is on the side of evil. It’s a simple choice.
There is one thing, however: “Iran stooges mere miles from our towns threatening” There are some “stooges” from iran, threatening….They want harris to win, because they can manipulate and threaten her and make happen in the U.S. what iran, hamas and the others want.
And they are not “mere miles,” but inside those towns….such as Dearborn, and Hamtramck, MI; in towns in NJ, San Francisco CA, Orlando, FL, cities in MN, and elsewhere.
If iran fails, and it will eventually, it may have an effect on hamas and hezbollah in the U.S. and if so, Israel can take the credit.
SC says
That pro violence trash needs to be the first to be rounded up and sent back to mexico or canada.with a warning that reentry into the USA will be an action with guaranteed FATAL consequences.
Walter Sieruk says
That Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran is and always was since its very beginning a horrendous violator of human rights, even the most basic human rights of the Iranian people. Since those tyrants in power in Iran care nothing ,at all , for the humans rights as in lives and safety of the people of Iran , how much less do they care ,if even possible, about the lives and safely of the people of other countries.
Furthermore, that Islamic tyranny of Iran is based in the foundation of false and empty promises. As well as lying words of Ayatollah Khomeini After the fiendish Muslim clerics obtained total power in Iran they showed their true colors by having their Islamic state police who are called the “Revolutionary Guards truest the people on Iran in many heinously brutal and ruthless ways. As, for example, their brutal, callous misogyny against both girls and women. This thesis statement is explained, in some detail, by the following.
, That tyrannical Islamic regime in Iran that so falsely and inappropriately has the word “republic” in its title. It should be made known that this called the “Iranian Revolution” turned out to be a hoax. Ayatollah Khomeini before achieving power in Iran in his lying and deceptions presented himself to the Iranian people as if he was someone who would be in power would give freedom to the people of Iran with any tyranny. The reality turned out to be just the opposite.
As explained by a former Muslim as well as a man who took part in this Islamic “revolution “ ,who is now a Christian informs the reader of his book that “Prior to the Revolution no one ever imagined that other political parties would be suppressed under the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini. He had promised that all groups would have freedom to run their own campaigns after the Revolution. He even stated that governing system would be based on the decision of the people via a referendum. He never spoke of a system that would be governed by Islam. He even made clear that mullahs would not take part in any political activities, and that they would only be allowed to teach spirituality… Immediately after the Revolution, mullahs rushed into government offices to occupy the most important political l positions, making it difficult for the interim secular government to function … The mullah’s occupation of position was exactly the opposite to what the Ayatollah Khomeini had promised before the Revolution.”. [1]
In other words, the insincere, disingenuous and outright lying Ayatollah Khomeini made many bogus promise he really had no intention of keeping. His lying deception worked, for he achieved great power in Iran.
Furthermore, Of the many heinously evils outcomes of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls.
As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and how now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine”
The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [2]
This is as malice -filled cruel brutal oppressive malicious and murderous Islamic regime of Iran, since it took power in Iran it thrives on installing fear on the Iranian people.
First, the Bible reads, “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.” Proverbs 15:15. [N.I.V.]
Second, Benjamin Franklin had printed a very true statement in his periodical Poor Richard’s Almanac which may apply to that horrendous tyrannical regime of Iran. It’s “Those who are feared are also hated.”
One important this to understand that since that brutal .cruel oppressive and murderous Islamic regime of Iran was built on a bedrock of false and empty and unkempt promises its footing is based on a foundation of sand, therefore the collapse of that hostile horrific and horrendous Islamic tyranny of Iran should be inevitable.
[1] ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND by Daniel Shayesteh . Pages 90, 91
[2] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
Walter Sieruk says
Way before that justified and righteous revolt started in the year 2022 by the Iranian people against that oppressive and brutally murderous tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran knowledge of just how horrendously cruel vicious and horrifically evil that “mullah tyranny” of Iran actually was and still is.
For example, back in time with President Trump and his administration on the date of 4/22/19 the US Secretary of State ,Michael Pompeo spoke of that brutal and oppressive tyranny which oppresses the people of Iran and said “We will not appease their oppressors as that last administration did .” Pompeo then stated “We will support the Iranian people.”
As far back as on Tuesday, 2/5/ 19 in his second State on the Union a speech President Trump ,wisely, spoke of that Islamic tyranny of Iran as well as those in total power and complete of that tyrannical rogue state. For the President declared “It is a radical regime, they do bad, bad things.”
Moreover, an author of an article on a Freedom Site, Dariush Afshar, had explained the reality of the situation well when he wrote that the “People of Iran who fight for freedom in Iran and abroad put a huge gap and draw a prominent line between Iran and the Islamic regime in Tehran.”
This is sadly and tragically the terrible reality of this Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran. This Islamic tyranny has been well nicknamed “the mullahs regime” in which them mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other fiendish and fanatical Muslims in power have a strong and awful control of the Islamic regime of Iran and through their band of Islamic state “police” , who are called the “Revolutionary Guards “come down hard human rights of the Iranian people .
Therefore, the Iranian people who are trapped and forced to exist in this Islamic tyranny live in terrible fear of the mullahs and others in power in Iran. This is a tragic and sad reminder of the wisdom that was printed in the periodical of Benjamin Franklin which is entitled POOR RICHARDS’ ALMANAC that reads “Those who are feared are also hated.”
It also should be added, to this that the actual word “Republic” has on origin the Latin meaning “Of the people” With the mullahs ayatollahs in so much power and even influencing the parliament of this Islamic regime is tyranny is hardly a real republic .Furthermore the ruthless gang of thugs who are the stooges of those Muslim clerics, called the “Revolutionary Guards,” those Islamic State “police” come down hard on the human rights and freedoms of the Iranian people. Therefore the people do have the right to overthrow a tyranny. This reality had even been expressed and described by men of great intelligence .For example, the philosopher .John Locke. This is wisdom that mullahs and other villains in power in that Islamic tyranny don’t want the Iranian people to know about or understand.
Walter Sieruk says
First, it needs to be made clear that those vicious tyrants who are in power on that aggressive and hostile Islamic regime of should receive severe retribution for those missile attacks into Israel. They and their bellicose regime should be now on the receiving end of the wrath of the strong power of the military might of the Israel Defense Force. For that is the only language that those horrendous despots of Iran are able to understand.
Second, those despicable despots of that “mullah regime “ of Iran has the ability to launch many murderous and destructive ballistic into the State of Israel with that malicious and deadly Islamic goal of killing her peaceful citizens.
One major factor that has the power to this evil is ,largely, because of Joe Biden , who strived to get the economic sections lifted that had been justly enacted , the President Trump and his administration, against that aggressive and hostile Islamic regime of Iran with the funds so that it now provides Hezbollah with those missiles .
Joe Biden has the blood of many innocent people on his treacherous and wicked hands.
Biden is guilty as sin.
Furthermore, to reiterate that above statement in a different way , It should be known that fiendish villain and treacherous rat, Joe Biden, indeed, has totally betrayed Israel. Biden is so very diabolical as to attempt to get sanctions lifted against Iran that then it has received billions of dollars some of the vast amount of money to Iran. Therefore, it now to launches those ballistic missile attacks into Israel.
Truly, Biden treacherous scoundrel.
Walter Sieruk says
No informed person should be surprised about the deadly malice of those despots of Iran. So much so that this horrendously vicious Islamic regime of lunching ballistic missiles into Israel.
Nothing but wicked intentions by those tyrants in power in Iran many expected from them.
For, example, fiendish villain, Ayatollah Khamenei, who is in power in Iran which is a cruel brutal and murderous tyrannical Islamic regime and his death in loss., That Joe Biden still supports that Islamic tyranny
That hostile and vicious Islamic regime of Iran even supplies deadly weapons to those murderous jihad entities Hamas and Hezbollah.
Therefore it should be made known that if the founder of the current Islamic tyranny ,Ayatollah Khomeini would still be alive today ,he would spit on those Westerners who say that “Islam is a non-violent religion.”
For as Ayatollah Khomeini had clearly announced that “Those who know nothing about Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….There are hundreds psalms and hadiths urging of Muslims to value war and to fight. …I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1] So if he was alive today who would spit on those Westerners who say that “Islam is a non-violent religion.” [1]
There are also many places in the Qu ‘ran that instruct in violence and killing for the cause of Islam.
As found in ,for example Surah 2:191. 4:89.. 5:33. 9:5, 111,112 ,123. 47:4.
Those jihadists operatives of that Islamic regime of Iran in the different Western countries will not lose interest in their insidious dangerous strategic scheming against the nations of the West.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 339.
Walter Sieruk says
The many arrest and imprisonment of people , repeatedly, who had peacefully protested that “mullah tyranny” of Iran only further exposes the weak ,fearful and intolerant nature of those in power in the oppressive and brutal “mullah regime “ of Iran.
As a former Muslim revealed an important reality when he wrote “The Islamic republic of Iran exists and operates as what every fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by sharia …” He further exposes that “What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premise; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
Furthermore, in the book entitled HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD, by William Wagner on page 208 the reader is informed that “The creation of the Islamic republic in Iran has had the effect that many from that country have become disillusioned with Islam and are looking to leave Iran. ” This is a point worth pondering.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 347.
SKA says
Better to have Islam leave Iran.
Walter Sieruk says
The many arrest and imprisonment of people , repeatedly, who had peacefully protested that “mullah tyranny” of Iran only further exposes the weak ,fearful and intolerant nature of those in power in the oppressive and brutal “mullah regime “ of Iran.
As a former Muslim revealed an important reality when he wrote “The Islamic republic of Iran exists and operates as what every fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by sharia …” He further exposes that “What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premise; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
Furthermore, in the book entitled HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD, by William Wagner on page 208 the reader is informed that “The creation of the Islamic republic in Iran has had the effect that many from that country have become disillusioned with Islam and are looking to leave Iran. ” This is a point worth pondering.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 347.
Walter Sieruk says
That horrendously brutal, cruel oppressive malicious and murderous Islamic regime of Iran, denies the Iranian, people their basic natural human rights.
Therefore, the Iranian people are right and righteous by engaging in bitter and strong protests against those cruel malicious and murderous tyrants in power of that cruel and oppressive Sharia based dictatorship of that Islamic regime of Iran.
In other words, those vicious despots of that horrendously horrific Islamic regime have provoked the people excessively too far.
In addition, some of the people who trapped in and forced to exist in the Islamic dictatorship of Iran might not know about the intellect philosopher John Locke, but his ideas do apply to them. For Mr. Locke taught that any good government has the duty to ensure the security and safety of its citizens. Yet when a tyranny is the people in the tyrannical government do have every natural and ethical right to overthrow that terrible and oppressive tyranny/ government.
Kosh's Shadow says
The shah’s son envisions a rebuilt Iran at peace with Israel – opinion
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-821976
But the son of the last shah says that with a little help, Iran might soon become a democratic nation in harmony with the West and partnership with Israel.
“It could happen relatively fast,” said Reza Pahlavi, 63, in a video interview from his Washington base. “The nation is ready.”
Pahlavi said that at least 80% of the Iranian people oppose the Islamic Republic, are aware of their ancient, friendly ties to the Jewish people, and yearn for a government that reflects their democratic aspirations and peace-loving nature.
Mike says
The current Iranian regime is like a house of cards or a rickety Jenga (r) structure, just ready to be knocked down or blown over.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
One of those things that will have to be seen to be believed, since we’ve been hearing about the pending fall of the islamic regime for decades now
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I keep hearing this, but I’m not getting this 7-front war thing. As far as I can tell, it’s just 5-front: Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank, North Yemen and Iran. I don’t see how Iraq or Syria are a part of that war
Syria, ever since the civil war, has been busy just asserting its authority over their entire territory, and have their hands full: they can’t even keep Israel from bombing Iranian targets in Syria, and have had to withdraw permission for Iran to have such bases b’cos it just paints a target around them
Iraq has Kataeb Hizbullah, a militia whose leader was killed in the same strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, and a few shi’a groups affiliated w/ Iran. But Iraq doesn’t have any Iranian bases, and their leadership has been careful to keep Iran at arm’s length: they don’t wanna be stooges of Teheran, nor do they wanna invite either US nor Israeli attention. Neither does any militia launch direct attacks on Israel from Iraq, the way they do from Gaza or Lebanon
The 5 fronts that Israel does have is full enough, w/o having to look at others like Iraq or Syria
somehistory says
A day or two ago, the news reported that some group in Iraq had fired missiles into Israel.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Somehistory:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pauliddon/2024/10/05/iraqi-militia-drone-attack-on-israeli-troops-echoes-tower-22-incident/
Not sure how big a threat this is to Israel–but it is not negligible.
terry says
All Globalist need disempowered in the Western nations, exposed and voted out. All Marxist nations need to crumble and become but one party in those nations, a fringe one like the thy he fringes of reality Marxism earns! All nations ruled by Islam need to truly become the jihad of inner struggles for peace- not a caliphate of enslavement! And all criminals that have rendered these present powers and forces into three Crime Syndicates, syndicated around crony corporations, criminal enterprises, and shady agendas with practices of double standards, needs outed and prosecuted!
Namer says
As a bare minimum Irans oilfields need to be erased, their S300 ADA sites destroyed, their piers where they load missiles onto ships taken out any aircraft with more Billions from Biden forced to land and the money confiscated.
gravenimage says
Iran’s Teeter-Tottering Tyranny
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Fine article, and cause for hope.