As the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas intensifies, the prospect of the conflict widening across the Middle East grows daily. On Oct. 20, an American warship, the USS Carney, shot down three cruise missiles and several drones launched from Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. They appeared to have been targeted at Israel. It followed a warning on Oct. 10 from the Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi, who said the Houthis would fire missiles and drones if the Americans backed Israel in its war against Hamas.
The Houthis came to prominence in 2014 when they swept to power in Yemen, overthrowing the internationally recognized government and taking control of the capital Sanaa and more than one third of the country’s territory, which contains up to 80 percent of the population. They are an extremist Shiite movement, heavily armed and trained by the Iranian regime’s elite Quds force, the extra-territorial wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the mullahs’ Gestapo. As well as Iran, the Houthis count amongst their allies the usual suspects of Russia, North Korea, Syria and of course, other terrorist groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. The Houthi war in Yemen has already cost around 377,000 lives, with an estimated 11 million children requiring urgent humanitarian assistance. Houthi landmines are reckoned to be responsible for 55 percent of child deaths in Yemen. The militant Houthis’ war cry of “God is great, death to America, death to Israel, damnation to the Jews, victory to Islam,” perfectly describes their fundamentalist ideology.
The missiles and drones fired at Israel from Yemen, followed hot on the heels of similar attacks launched by Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hezbollah is blacklisted as a terrorist organization by the US, EU and UK and is also heavily backed by Iran. On Oct. 16 it said it had fired rockets and mortars targeting two Israeli military posts in Galilee, in response to Israeli shelling that it claimed had killed three of its members. The Israeli military said it had identified a number of “launches” from Lebanon into Israel and was responding with artillery fire. The Israelis said their initial exchange of fire was in answer to a cross-border raid by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed terrorist group. They said their soldiers backed by helicopters had killed at least two PIJ gunmen who had crossed the frontier. Hezbollah has denied any involvement with the PIJ raid. There is growing apprehension that Hezbollah, with a sophisticated fighting force and a significant arsenal of long-range missiles, might enter the current conflict, opening a second front for Israel, in what many military experts say would be a nightmare scenario. An Israeli ground invasion of Gaza could trigger Hezbollah’s involvement, which, in turn, could draw in Iran.
It is against this background that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rushed to Tel Aviv on Oct. 12, days after the horrific Hamas massacre of men, women and children, to pledge America’s undying backing for Israel. He was quickly followed by President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, both of whom promised their everlasting support to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Their presence, however, made it diplomatically difficult for Netanyahu to launch a ground offensive. Rishi Sunak called on world leaders to do “everything possible to prevent” the violence in Israel and Gaza spilling over into a wider Middle East conflict. The presence of an estimated 200 Israeli hostages in Gaza and the release of two American female captives by Hamas has further increased the pressure on Netanyahu to forestall his ground offensive, as has the initial arrival of the first aid trucks, allowed through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt.
Although an imminent ground offensive in Gaza may have been averted, it has not stopped the Iranian regime from stirring the pot. In Iraq, the Ain al-Assad air base, which hosts US and other international forces, was targeted by drones and missiles fired by the Iraqi Islamic Resistance, an umbrella group for Iranian-backed militias. According to security sources, multiple blasts were heard inside the base on Oct. 18, marking a further escalation of the crisis. The next day, a barrage of rockets hit another US military base near Baghdad’s international airport. American forces in Syria also came under drone attack at the same time, causing some minor injuries. A second drone was shot down. Again, the IRGC’s Quds force almost certainly coordinated these attacks, under direct instructions from Tehran.
Indeed, it has now been confirmed that Iran warned Israel, through the UN, that it would have to “intervene” if they invaded the Gaza Strip. This threat was amplified on Oct. 19, when Gholamhossein Gheybparvar, a deputy IRGC commander, said in a speech that Iran-backed militias in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen were ready to strike Israel if its ground forces invaded Gaza. In a frenzy of diplomatic activity, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US said in a joint statement, “This is not a moment for any party hostile to Israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage.” But their warnings may have fallen on deaf ears. Israel sees itself surrounded by hostile forces, all of which are armed, trained and funded by Iran and all of which have adopted an increasingly aggressive posture to the US and to American forces in the region. There are even fears that America could be drawn into the conflict, by sustained attacks on its forces by Iranian-backed militias. It is a volatile situation, exacerbated by threats from Israel that they will cut off the head of the snake in Tehran if Hezbollah joins the war with Hamas and opens a Northern Front. Western appeasement of the Iranian regime for decades has fuelled the current crisis. Confronting the mullahs and backing the Iranian population in their calls for regime change could have prevented the Israeli-Hamas war. When you cut off the head of a snake, its body dies.
Shortly before Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee met at Appomattox Courthouse, VA,
Grant cabled Lincoln: “If the thing is pressed, I think he’ll do it (surrender).”
Lincoln cabled back: “Let the thing be pressed.”
Bush should have pressed the button after 9/11 three buttons, one for Tehran one for Mecca one for Islamabad.
Job done
Instead he declared it was the religion of peace.
All,
There are billions of snakes. The morals of society will have to change. And, our enemies know this. Our enemies are not moral.
Does that work for Soros as well?
It would IF there were any in Congress with sufficient patriotism and ethics.
Not only does the Biden Junta not want to kill the snake, the want to clone it in a Chinese lab and graft three more heads on its body.
PART 1
From what I have read MOST of the money Hamas gets…………..is from QATAR,which hass a state-owned channel called AL-JAZEERA.
And the LEADERS of Hamas are…………..in Iran,no,they live in QATAR.
Qatar is the head of the snake.
THE OBJECTIVES of HAMAS in ATTACKING
1.It is a terrorist organization that uses civilians as HUMAN SHIELDS,just like the UKRAINIAN army uses civilians as human shields,so both are terrorist groups. Hamas attacked to PREVENT the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and SAUDI ARABIA. It succeeded,mission accomplished, now Saudi Arabia will NOT
do so unless there is the INDEPENDENCE of the WEST BANK,in addition to Gaza.
2.WHY has Saudi Arabia done so?Hamas knows Israel well,it knew it would BOMB and bomb and bomb and bomb Gaza City because of the DAHIYA doctrine of 2006 (“mowing the grass”) used in the 2006 war against HEZBULLAH in southern Lebanon.
Because of it,Saudi Arabia decided to react that way.
Mowing the grass means to destroy an entire town or city even though the enemy soldiers are all in ONE neighborhood,KNOWING the other 95% of the city has no soldiers.
PART 2
Has Hamas PREVENTED civilians from leaving Gaza City?
No doubt some………………but some 500,000 have already left,and 500,000 are still there.
It was NOT able to prevent 500,000 from leaving.What if ALL the civilians left,would Israel STOP the bombing?The answer is NO.
RUBBLE
Experts agree, if a city is in RUINS it becomes FAR MORE difficult to enter and destroy an enemy.
Even if ALL the civilians were to leave Gaza City Israel would STILL destroy it all,even though it makes NO military sense,why?
OCT 13 DOCUMENT LEAKED
An internal document,10 pages,of the MINISTRY of INTELLIGENGE ,no doubt by one inside who was shocked,has been leaked where it is written
to force ALL the 2.3 million Palestinians of Gaza to LEAVE and go to EGYPT,set up camps there,
and later PREVENT them from RETURNING. It wass published by the “Times of Israel” and has been ACKNOWLEDGED by the Israeli government itself to be AUTHENTIC.
No doubt by utterly destroying Gaza City they could then justify preventing the Palestinians from coming back.
Netanyahu and his LIKUD party,plus the Orthodox Jewish political parties that are his allies are,by PRINCIPLE…………….it is in their charters,it is not speculation, AGAINST an INDEPENDENT Gaza and West Bank,even if there had never ever been
ANY terrorism,even if all the inhabitants were pacifists and non-Muslim. They want ANNEX Gaza and the West Bank outright.
“Even if ALL the civilians were to leave Gaza City Israel would STILL destroy it all,even though it makes NO military sense,why?”
Poor logic and understanding of reality. Arrogant to presume to have pre-knowledge.
The reality is this:
The FORMER Israeli ambassador to ITALY ( Dror Eydar) has said Israel wants to destroy Gaza,
”“We Need To DESTROY Gaza” – Fmr Israeli Ambassador To Italy”( 8 min)
Islam has been a scourge on humanity for 1400 years.
Enough already.
PART 3
Plus OFF the coast of GAZA an immense,enormous amount of GAS has been discovered.
It is worth billions and billions and more,a mountain of bitcoins,of gold. Israel wants to ANNEX Gaza for all that money to come.
BOTH sides have been caught lying,Scott Ritter in one video gave examples.About the 1,400 KILLED on OCT 7th and 8th:
1. From what has been stated 50%………………were soldiers in UNIFORM, it does not include the many CIVILIAN men who would usually have ARMS in the area.
2. Everybody agrees Hamas killed civilians………….but how many? 700?
THE HANNIBAL DIRECTIVE
1. It was created in 1985 by the Israeli army,it says if an Israeli SOLDIER is CAPTURED,to KILL him and kill his captors.It was a SECRET for a long time,and ………………it can be MODIFIED.
2. The evidence is it was changed on Oct 7 and 8,2023 to INCLUDE killing Israeli CIVILIANS who are HOSTAGES,and thus to kill Hamas soldiers, on Oct 7th and 8th,the Israeli army with TANKS and HELICOPTER MISSILES just
destroyed HOUSE after HOUSE and CAR after CAR that had people indiscriminately,so to be 100% sure Hamas soldiers would be among the dead. The photos we have of BURNED corpses are NOT the result of Hamas bullets but people burned by helicopter missiles.
3. The Hannibal Directive has also been modified again………..200 Israeli HOSTAGES in Gaza City,then kill ALL the Palestinian civilians the army sees when it ENTERS Gaza City,which Israel has said will be considered “Hamas ASSOCIATES” ( a WAR CRIME ) and KILL
all the 200 hostages in the tunnels because there are Hamas soldiers with them.
Check out “The Grayzone”( Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate,both Jewish and somewhat Left,they are ANTI-WOKISM) on all this:
“Israel’s military was ordered to attack Israelis on 10/7” ( 11 min )
PART 4
Will Hamas be defeated,YES and NO.
1. There is a 50% probability all the Hamas soldiers in the tunnels will be killed……….after 3-6 months of fighting,with about 50,000 dead Israeli soldiers.URBAN warfare is the MOST difficult of all,just urban,but if you add
urban warfare among RUINS, even more,plus if you add that the enemy is in TUNNELS well-stocked with water,food,arms, even more so.
2. The Hamas plan has already succeeded,even if they all die,it is SECONDARY. It was to make the INDEPENDENCE of the West Bank and Gaza,even without them, become the cause of
the ARAB LEAGUE,which curently has:
22 member states;
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordon, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian Authority,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
IS ISRAEL REFUSES?
The OCT 13 leaked document proves Israel wants ETHNIC CLEANSING ( war crime).
Then Kuwait,Saudi Arabia,Qatar,United Arab Emirates,
would declare an OIL EMBARGO on the WEST gradually,step by step,the PUTIN way, and as PRICES in the West SHOOT UP and then the next month even more, and also in ISRAEL,
its ECONOMY would be destroyed,the Netanyahu government would FALL.The objective of Hamas.
PART 5
About DAHIYA “Mowing the Grass” ,the military doctrine of the Israeli army since 2006,during the war against HEZBULLAH in Lebanon:
1. It means that for EACH attack by the enemy, a DISPROPORTIONATE response.
2.First, Israel WARNS civilians it will attack an area,a HUGE area.Tells them to leave.Some leave,others are held back by terrorists.
WHAT if ALL the CIVILIANS left?
No human shields, in spite of that ALL the HOUSES of the area would be DESTROYED,it doesn’t matter.
That is the very definition of Dahiya,disproportionate attack, in essence it is COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT,which is a WAR CRIME..
It isn’t a collective punishment b/c Israel doesn’t intend it to be collective. Hamas did.
I’d like to suggest an edit and correction to the column. It currently reads, “Western appeasement of the Iranian regime for decades has fuelled the current crisis.” It should be corrected to read, “Western appeasement of the Iranian regime for decades, with the notable exception of the period 2017-2020 under President Trump in the U.S., has fuelled the current crisis.” But oh those mean tweets.
Excellent and salient point.
Thank you.
All predators that feed on snakes knows is to go for the head in order to make a quick kill
Not sure about ALL but i can say with certainty, every single Roadrunner i have seen kill a rattlesnake, targets first the head.
Sometimes two Roadrunners work in tandem. One distracts while the second waits for a clear shot at the head from the side or from behind. They sometimes pound the head against a rock. Once dead, the rattlesnake becomes dinner.
All those Muslims in power in that “mullah regime” of Iran with hates the Jewish people as well as the State of Israel and wants her to be destroyed and use their stooge jihad organization ,Hamas to attempt to weaken and then eliminated the Jewish State ,once and for all are in reality delusional.
Those ayatollahs and mullahs and others in control of that hostile Israel hating tyranny of Iran have no idea, at all, that they are fated to totally fated to fail in their Islamic quest to destroy Israel.
The reason that this is so is because God is for Israel and will not let her be destroyed no matter how hard those malice-filled Israel despising imams and other Muslims clerics and their President Raisi will strive against Israel , they are all greatly overruled by God.
For example, the Bible in Psalm 135:4 reads “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His special treasure.” [N.K.J.V.]
“Western appeasement of the Iranian regime for decades has fuelled the current crisis” particularly during the Kenyan administration, remember that a C-130 delivered a pallet of cash to Tehran, and during the present DC government the US has given the Iranians oodles of cash to support their terrorist activities AND looking away at their development of nuclear weapons. Madness from our so-called “leaders.” If Iran is close to having it and then get one I have no doubts that they’d use it against Israel considering the mullahs apocalyptic mindset.
Yah the head is in Tehran. One of the hands is in the USA government. I believe Hamas and Iran has operative in Joke Biden administration and in Congress
BHO is Iran’s chief hand in the WH, but there are others.