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[Pre-order a copy of David Horowitz’s next book, America Betrayed, by clicking here. Orders will begin shipping on May 7th.]
I was wrong.
I believed the Iranians would not attack Israel directly as they had been threatening, because such an attack would green-light an Israeli response on the Iranian homeland that would be devastating for the Islamic regime.
I reasoned that the extraordinary coordination among U.S. and Israeli officials late last week signaled a potential joint U.S.-Israeli counterstrike should Iran’s leaders be so reckless as to attack Israel.
The commander of U.S. Central Command General, Eric Kurilla, visited Israel on Thursday, just as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was putting in a public appearance at Tel Nor Air Force base to give a pep talk to Israel F-15 pilots. Also last week, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held two videonconferences with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, and the Pentagon moved the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its carrier task force closer to Israel from its current duty station further down the Red Sea to better defend the Jewish state.
Despite Iran’s ongoing threats that it would “punish” Israel for its alleged role in bombing the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1, where Quds Force war-planning meetings were underway, I believed that even attacks by Iranian proxies in Iraq against Israel would be seen by Israel as a direct Iranian attack. Therefore I was confident that any direct Iranian attack on Israel would greenlight Israel to strike Iran.
I said that publicly last week. A few days later, Israeli minister without portfolio, Benny Ganz, said it on Israeli TV. (In case you missed it, Benny Ganz is the “moderate” Israeli politician Biden & Co. are trying to maneuver into position to replace Bibi.)
Both of us were wrong.
I believed that Israel would strike back against Iran with such devastating force – potentially, in a joint counter-strike with the U.S. against Iranian nuclear facilities – that it would reveal the regime’s weakness.
Iranian air defenses would show themselves incapable of shooting down a single U.S. or Israeli plane, a fact that would become immediately obvious. An Israeli counterstrike would make the regime appear weak in the eyes of the Iranian people, something I believed could serve as a catalyst for a nation-wide uprising against the regime.
And that is something regime leaders cannot allow to happen. They cannot appear weak.
On Sunday morning, I woke up in the south of France to the extraordinary news that Iran had defied all expectations and launched 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, and more than 100 ballistic missiles against Israel.
Even more extraordinary were the results: Israel announced that along with its allies, it had knocked out all 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles before they even reached Israeli airspace, and intercepted 99% of the ballistic missiles, many of them in exo-atmospheric kills that showered shrapnel across the Negev desert, severely wounding a 7-year Bedouin girl who lived near the Netarim Air Force base, where Israel’s fleet of F-35 fighters is based.
We also learned that around half of the ballistic missiles either failed to launch or misfired on their own, a testimony to Iran’s military capabilities.
But here is the key: Israel alone did not thwart the Iranian attack. The United States, the UK, Jordan, and even France sent their pilots aloft to intercept incoming drones and cruise missiles before they reached Israel, with the U.S. Central Command coordinating that response.
And that international assistance appears to have a come at a price: President Biden publicly warned Prime Minister Netanyahu on Sunday that the thwarted Iranian attack on Israel was it. The U.S. would not support an Israeli strike against Iran in response.
Israel took out Iranian military commanders illicitly using a diplomatic facility in Damascus on April 1; Iran retaliated against Israeli territory in a strike that killed no Israeli two weeks later. Strike, counter-strike. Game over.
As the former U.S. National Intelligence Officer for Iran, Norman Roule, told CNN on Sunday, the Iranian attack on Israel “erased all the red lines.”
Extraordinary.
I have many questions. We know Biden’s sympathies for the Iranian regime. As soon as he took office, he quietly removed sanctions on Iranian oil sales, allowing them to go from exporting 400,000 barrels/day during the final days of the Trump administration to nearly 2,000,000 b/d today, most of it to China.
We know that he paid a $6 billion ransom for five U.S.-Iranian dual-nationals held hostage by the Tehran regime.
We know that until late last year, Biden was seeking to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which Trump for good reason called “the worst deal ever negotiated.” Trump withdrew US participation in the deal in 2018.
There is much more we don’t know, at least not publicly. For example, what back-channel discussions did the Biden White House conduct with Iranian officials over the past two weeks, in Turkey, Iraq, or elsewhere? Did the White House provide assurances to Iran that the U.S. would intervene to prevent an Israeli counterstrike, thereby green-lighting the Iranian strike on Israel, which the Ayatollah needed to placate his own hardline supporters?
I can find no other explanation for the otherwise irrational behavior of the Islamic state of Iran’s leaders. Above all else, they value regime survival. Without a green light from Biden for their attack on Israel, they risked regime extinction – by Israel, and by their own people.
But with assurances from Biden, they felt secure.
I hate when Alzheimer Joe pretends to be in charge. As if anybody outside the media listen to anything he mutters. Look at him hold his finger up. Only bitches like Obama do that.
The world laughs at America now that Trump is gone.
You have to remember what Trump has done to this country he my have somethings right but he has done more WRONG than he has done right. An ATC on are own capital building is the worse thing any president has done to this country. And just last week he has said if he doesn’t win this time for president there’s going to a bloodbath. We all know what that means and it’s not going to be good for anyone in the USA. So the faster they get him into Court then he not able to run for election and Biden needs to drop out of the election too
President Trump said there will a “Bloodbath” in the Auto industry NOT the nation, Go look it up. You are echoing what the Dim Democrats and their minions are repeating.
Oh, the “bloodbath!” How stupid does somebody have to be to repeat that tardism? Talking money stupid, I figure.
Uh, excuse me, but flaunting your TDS is unseemly and inappropriate for this forum. Perhaps you mistook this site’s commentary forum for NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC or Fox News Network’s commentary forum. Your TDS outburst would be more welcomed at those sites where TDS and anti-MAGA rants are the norm and encouraged.
No doubt that Biden has hampered Israel at every step in the current conflict. No doubt that Biden has encouraged and enabled Iran since his first day in Office, No doubt that Biden has tried and is still trying to unseat Israels Democraticaly Elected Prime Minister Netanyahu.
No doubt Biden has weakend America’s Military, Economy,Security,and position on the World Stage. …. My conclusion;- Biden will continue to weaken the Bond between Israel and America, continue to appease Israels Enemies, ….. The worst President America has had in Living Memory, No doubt.
BUT for Biden, read OBAMA, the real power in the Biden admin, Obama a Muslim, anti Israel anti Brit, pro Iran with his Agreement which was NOT passed through the Senate or even signed by Iran !
And much worse to come I bet. Forbid Biden to do anything in the U.S. government. Sen him to an old men’s home. And I thought Nixon was the worst president.
But the military industrial complex continues to grow.
It grows because both sides of the political aisle (aka, the “Uniparty”) financially benefits from its unabated growth.
Proof? Did anyone in the military industrial complex cry over the estimate $85 billion in arms abandoned in Afghanistan? As the late economist Dr. Walter E. Williams might say, the military industrial complex was so quiet about the loss that you could hear a mouse piss on cotton from 100 yards away!
And most members of congress lament over the loss amounted to nothing more than shedding a few crocodile tears for PR purposes.
Ever since Operation Desert Storm, I’ve had numerous high school buddies and other contemporaries say, with feelings of guilt… “Gee, I wish I had joined the military and gone overseas like you did”
And as I always quip, Stand-by, our enemies want to bring “down range” to a town near you.
Why? Because it’s what they have told us they’re gonna do.
Is Jacob Lew, the US Ambassador to Israel, in hiding, or what?
Now….we can all see how Freedom and Liberty have been destroyed by this kind of regime.
Biden knew Iran was going to attack Israel and gave a green light. It’s not Biden, the dude’s mind is shot and is confused with lifetime of lies and dirty deals. It is the puppet handlers. We are in a global coup d’etat – by stolen 2020 election. Our only hope, President Trump is being persecuted by Soros crooked DA’s that let real criminals go free, real criminals like street thugs and the Biden family and those on the Biden family gravy train. Pirates of the Caribbean? We got pirates in the White House and CONgrASS. We need President Trump or the USA and the free world is finished! As USA goes, so goes the free and rest of the world.
DemonKKKrats, wake the F up!
How long R U going 2 run ure Ad over half the screen…
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Relief can’t come soon enough. Who would have thought our Democracy was so fragile America as we knew it could be almost destroyed in four years without firing a shot. The pen is truly mightier than the sword. With the stroke of a pen Biden cancelled more than half of President Trumps safety lines. Was it just hatred of and jealousy of President Trrumps leadership or does Biden hate America too?
Biden likes ice cream and sniffing. Obama and his handlers hate.
!. Netanyahu 2. All Jewish people even the “ kapos” he employs 3. Israel 4. US 5. non muslims such as non left Christians 6. White skin color 7. heterosexuals 8. children 9. probably puppies and kittens.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Biden’s brain is so damaged that he believes anything he is told by those surrounding him are true. The ultimate voice that he hears is Obama’s. Obama is an evil man accompanied by men so enamored by him as to almost reach a sexual level. Obama is keeping his promise to fundamentally change (destroy) America. It is going to take a long time to get America back on track to being a moral nation again.
October 7 should have greenlighted Israel to strike Iran and decapitate the Islamic Iranian regime.
And the USA should have backed Israel in Iran’s regime decapitation shortly after October 7.
It was a terrible mistake by Israel and America not to do it.
If the depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islamic Iranian regime is not now decapitated, then it clearly demonstrates a massive failure of nerve. on the part of Israel and America. and Europe.
The West must never forget that depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islam has been the scourge of humanity for 1400 years, and still is.
Crushing Islam means saving humanity.
https://www.memri.org/reports/ayn-al-asad-number-two-%E2%80%93-iran-pre-coordinated-its-attack-against-israel-us-so-no-one-will-be
It seems to me the IDF missed a grand opportunity. If only they could have “re-directed” one of Iran’s ballistic missiles to hit the “Dome of the Rock”, and wipe that obscenity off the Temple Mount! No “plausible deniability” there. See? “Iran did it!”, and the rest of the Muslim world would take care of Iran.
I have to admit that, since we have had reports that some of the weapons captured from Hamas by the IDF are Iranian, I wondered why someone did not plant one of the captured missiles in al-Aqsa and blow it up under cover of the Iranian attack.
The Dome of the Rock is also sacred to the Jews. site of (underground) the first temple of David..
When God made His eternal promises to Israel, there was no United Nations, no United States, no Russia, no European Union, and no Arab League. There were only pagan nations to challenge the dream, to challenge God and His Word. Today, those same pagan voices are challenging the Right of the Jewish People to Occupy a United Jerusalem, and live in peace. Their goal is to wipe the Jewish people out.
The Spiritual attachment of the Jews to Jerusalem has remained unbroken; it is a unique attachment . Should one doubt that statement, he would have to look long and hard to find another relationship in HISTORY where a PEOPLE, even in captivity, remained so PASSIONATELY attached to a city for THREE THOUSAND YEARS. Only the JEWISH PEOPLE have always maintained Jerusalem as the sole center of their national and spiritual life..
Very simple, Beholden Biden reports to the CCP, who are now good chums with Iran (or rather Iran’s oil). The CCP directed puppet Biden to lift sanctions against Iran so China could easily get cheap Iranian oil flowing to it. Russia also needs Iran’s support (or at least its drones) in its war against Ukraine. So by Biden’s treasonous act of lifting sanctions and empowering Iran politically and economically, it has triggered a spiraling cascade of death and dangerous events in the world. The next move will be the Axis of Evil taking on Taiwan (the CCP with a little help from their friends). And Biden has joined that EVIL axis with full membership, in excellent standing. As a reward, CCP will again make the election turn out in Biden’s favor – as long as Traitor Joe
plays the game.
It is over people. The purge is right around the corner. First they will come for your weapons. Then they will come for your food. They they will come for your money. Then they will come for your kids.
Then they come for you.
Let me put this is simple terms so you understand. You are going to camps and there you will be exterminated. Killed for you NASCAR types.
How does the spammer get posted when the rest of us are moderated?
Asking for a friend.
You know the Arabs have rejected existence of a 2 state solution for 100 years, their goals were not for peace. The creation of a contiguous Palestinian state as the outcome of October 7 massacre is a guaranteed formula for ongoing violence and consequences, too ominous to describe. At this point in time, the world may be facing nuclear threats by Iran that were curtailed before by rational, constructive leaders even during the Cold War. Looks like we are slouching toward Armageddon and people are not dumb enough to discount the possibilities.
One of the reasons that Iran’s “mullah regime” of Iran has become so terribly arrogant and emboldened as to be so viciously hostile as to engage murderous and destructive missile and drone attacks into the State of Israel is because that treacherous fiendish villain,Joe Biden , had encouraged those Islamic dictators of Iran by allowed that Islamic tyranny that to obtain billions of dollars . How terribly wicked of Biden .For that belligerent ”mullah regime” of Iran calls Israel “The little Satan and the US “The great Satan.”
That vast amount of money Biden those in power in Iran to obtain had , without doubt , invigorated Rasis and Khamenei to launch those missile attacks into Israel.
Truly, Joe Biden is a scoundrel.as well as those Muslim tyrants in power in Iran.