What Iranian targets should Israel now strike? That is the question Prime Minister Netanyahu must answer within the next few weeks. He’s been getting unhelpful advice from President Biden, who says he would not support an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and that he thinks Israel “should consider other options” than an attack on Iran’s oil fields. More about Israel’s choice, and what makes the most sense for the Jewish state to pursue, can be found here: “Will Israel Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Sites? by Jay Solomon, The Free Press, October 4, 2024:
In Palestine Square, in the center of Tehran, Iran, stands a clock tower that doesn’t tell regular time. Rather, it tracks forward to the year 2040, by which Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has proclaimed the state of Israel will be destroyed. Today, it reads: 5,567 days.
“God willing, there will be no such thing as a Zionist regime in 25 years,” Khamenei told his followers almost a decade ago. “Until then, struggling, heroic, and jihadi morale will leave no moment of serenity for Zionists.” Banners and billboards celebrating the doomsday countdown have proliferated across Iran, and even into neighboring Iraq.
Many Western analysts dismiss Khamenei’s threat as bluster. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet are taking the Supreme Leader at his word as they plan Israel’s response to Iran’s unprecedented ballistic missile attack on the Jewish state this week.
Netanyahu is now weighing directly striking Iranian nuclear, military, and energy installations to deter Iran—and derail Khamenei’s countdown clock. Current and former Israeli officials told The Free Press that the prime minister sees the next four months—when the U.S. is helmed by a diminished president and consumed by an election and political transition—as a singular window for Israel to pursue its military aims without Washington’s constraints. (The White House has sought to hold the Israeli military back repeatedly in the past year, most notably, according to a recent report in the Financial Times, by blocking a 2023 strike on the leader of the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, in the first days of Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip. And on Wednesday, President Joe Biden said he wouldn’t support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.)
The Israel Defense Forces have made significant gains in their campaign against Tehran by crippling Hamas, Iran’s proxy in Gaza, and, over the past weeks, taking out the leadership of Hezbollah. What began as pager explosions in the hands of Hezbollah militants last month, and then airstrikes against the militia’s positions in Lebanon, has turned into an IDF ground operation into the country’s south in recent days.
But Israeli officials insist that crippling Iran’s proxies is insufficient. Ultimately, what the Jewish state’s security requires is eliminating the possibility of Iran gaining nuclear weapons….
The regime in Iran has watched as Hamas, its proxy in Gaza, has been largely destroyed by the IDF, and has seen Hezbollah’s leadership in Lebanon decapitated, with Hassan Nasrallah killed along with dozens of Hezbollah commanders eliminated in other airstrikes. In addition, Israeli, US, and Middle Eastern officials estimate that up to 3,000 Hezbollah members were killed or injured by the pagers and walkie-talkies that had been rigged by Mossad to explode. Meanwhile, Hezbollah is leaderless, because Nasrallah’s successor, Hashem Safieddine, has also been killed.
The Iranians have in response to the killing of Nasrallah just let loose a barrage of 180 ballistic missiles, aimed at IDF’s military bases and Mossad headquarters. Almost all were shot down; a few managed to hit the Nevatim airbase but did no damage to critical infrastructure, aside from opening a hole in the roof of one hangar. The only other damage was to some housing on the base.
After Iran’s attack with 180 ballistic missiles, Israel has announced that it will “respond appropriately.” And right now, as it continues its heavy bombardment of Hezbollah sites, especially weapons depots, in southern Beirut, it is considering three main options. It could target Iranian military installations or take out Iranian missile-launching sites and air defense systems. We will consider the other tomorrow morning.
Walter Sieruk says
It needs to be made very clear in an no noncertain way that the government authorities and officials of the State of Israel have a duty and responsibility to strike back, retaliation at Iran because the hostile and vicious despots in power in the hostile and in that Islamic regime had order the lunching many ballistic missile into Northern Israel with the malicious intention of killing the peaceful citizens of that Jewish State.
For that is the only language that those horrendous despots of Iran are able to understand. Likewise, the those malice and deadly Iran funded and weapon supplied jihad terror/murder entities Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis need to be on the reviving end of the strong military might of the Israel Defense Force, because that also the only to send those jihadist a message in language are capable of understanding.
Since the aggressors in Iran and of those horrendous jihad “organizations” stated that current was it’s an important and necessary for State of Israel to use the military might of the IDF protect her people. It’s a basic matter of self-defense.
As the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, rightly and wisely, in a speech had declared “The right to self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
gravenimage says
Yes–and yet, with evey new outrage against Israel, the first thing you hear are urgings for Israel to do nothing, and just suppinely let her people be murdered.
Chris Rettenmoser says
The rabid mullahs want to eliminate the Jewish state,,,NOW is the time to destroy their nuke plants and their economy !!!!! THERE IS ONLY ONE CURE FOR RABID KILLERS
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.” 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.
gravenimage says
The Decisions Netanyahu Must Make
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This is incredibky tough for him–but Netanyahu is good at protecting his people. Am Yisrael Chai!
Westman says
The anniversary of 10/7/2023 in Israel is almost here, Tehran time being 30 minutes in advance of Tel Aviv time. It’s already 10/7 in Iran. The Iranian Regime must be nervously wondering if their doom is at hand. Darkness maximizes confusion, so like the lamb lying down with the lion, the Iranians may not get much sleep.
Both the eradication of Iran’s nuclear program and the curtailment of its oil production must be accomplished to stop the Mullahs ability to hire foreign mafia-thugs under the banner of religion.
It is now 10/7/2024 in Israel. Pleasant dreams, Ayatollah.
James Lincoln says
It would be a great start for Israel if its IDF could first take out Khamenei.
Donna says
Or simply put, KILL OR BE KILLED! it never changes, all the extra words are deception!
Rick Gordon says
Biden is simply continuing and carrying out Obama’s pro-Iran policies. It’s shameful and racist!
ElderlyZionist says
Candygram for Imam Khamenei!
OLD GUY says
As the leader of Israel he should do what is in Israels best interest, and NO one else’s.