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At 6:34 Sunday morning, the app on my phone that sends an alarm when air raid sirens are sounded throughout Israel was blowing up for a solid two minutes. At that point, I realized that it was not an “ordinary” attack with a few rockets targeting communities along the northern border with Lebanon, or the southern border with Gaza where Hamas terrorists still manage to fire rockets, despite nearly a year of a devastating war. I took a screenshot of the dozens of locations throughout central Israel where air raid sirens were being sounded at that moment and sent that to my lists of friends around the world who I knew would want to know, and to pray for us, providing spiritual cover to complement the Iron Dome and other anti-missile systems that Israel uses.
As I sent the updates and posted to my social media, the sirens continued for another few minutes. This was far from ordinary. I assumed that Hezbollah in Lebanon had decided to open a front deeper into central Israel. As all this was happening, my mind raced concerned for friends in the towns and cities who were now running to their bomb shelters, worried that if a major escalation was taking place that we were next. My youngest son left the house 40 minutes earlier to go back to his base where he’s completing his basic training this week. I was also mindful that I have another son deployed along the Lebanese border: first for his safety and then that he is scheduled to come home for a respite today.
The inference I made, and which was initially reported across Israeli media was that as many as 100 rockets and missiles had been fired. I assumed that it was Hezbollah, but within 20-30 minutes, the reports were refined and apparently it was “only” one ballistic missile. I was also wrong in the missile’s origin: not Hezbollah in Lebanon but the Houthis in Yemen.
Fortunately, there were no injuries reported but one thing is clear: the terrorists are watching, in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and of course in Iran.
The terrorists are watching the effectiveness of our response.
The terrorists are watching the fact that the one missilewas aballistic missile fired by the Houthi terrorists from over 1000 miles away.
The terrorists are watching the fact that for some reason the missilewas not detected and destroyedbefore entering Israeli airspace.
The terrorists are watching, and learning.
I was mindful that exactly at this time, 11 and a half months ago, Hamas launched thousands of rockets as cover for the invasion of Israel and massacre of 1200 people, kidnapping more than 250, and triggering the war in which we are still in the midst of.
I was mindful that Hezbollah and Iran could see this as an opportunity to launch a wider attack on Israel and indeed bring us to the escalation that many think is inevitable.
Watching the news across multiple media, one message was clear: the threat remains great, and the address for all of this is the Islamic regime in Iran which funds and arms all these terror proxies. One commentator said that nothing would change until the “head of the snake in Iran was dealt with.
One conversation evolved as to how obscene it is that the US and G7 only now condemned Iran, not for itsaggression and all its terrorist activities and threats to Israel, but for its recent arming Russia. It seems that Russia having more weapons to attack Ukraine is a red line that warrants a condemnation, but Jews being attacked by Islamic terrorists in Israel is normal.
This was amplified by the US recently sanctioning Hamas leaders this month as a result of the execution of six Israeli hostages, one of whom was also a US citizen. Had the US wanted to do something to bring all the hostages home long ago, sanctions against all its leaders should have come 11 months ago as just one means to target the terrorists.
Condemnations and sanctions coming so late, so selectively, and with no teeth are not only not effective, but send a clear message to the Islamic terrorists that they can indeed get away with it.
Fielding messages for well over an hour with countless people praying and sending my update to their wider prayer networks, many asked what they could do. I urged them to support the Israel Emergency Campaign so that no matter what happens next, there are resources to respond immediately. I listened carefully for air raid sirens in my area. On October 7 last year, I heard “booms” of the Iron Dome intercepting incoming rockets as far away as central Jerusalem before the siren sounded in our community. I listened attentively.
The sounds I heard were of a normal Sunday morning. Cars and buses. Children arriving and playing at the school across the street. Many, maybe even most, who are not obsessed as I am with knowing every time a rocket or missile is fired at anywhere in Israel probably didn’t even know that anything had just happened.
By 7:34, Hezbollah terrorists had joined the action by firing multiple rockets at dozens of Israeli communities in the north. As of this writing and since then, it’s been relatively quiet. However, I anticipate a swift Israeli reprisal, targeting Houthi positions in Yemen (more than 1000 miles away) and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
I anticipate Israel’s response will be bold and unequivocal becausethe terrorists are watching and,unless and until an all-out war against these genocidal enemies that seek our destruction takes place, at least some sense of deterrence needs to be instilled so they will at least think twice about trying anything like this in the future.
While things seem “normal” again, it and I don’t know if my son is coming home today or not, behind the scenes, it’s anything but normal. They can’t be, because the terrorists are watching.
The United Nations is the Worlds biggest Terrorists and Terrorist supporters there is and that’s why America needs to pull out of the United Nations Period
Never forget that this sophisticated drone technology was delivered to Iran in a singular act of diabolical treason by Obamao/Brennan. They feigned it being accidental, but this was done with pernicious intent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident
This act of treason allowed Iran to reverse engineer a sophisticated drone and mass produce them with devastating consequences for Israel and other enemies of Iran.
This act of treason was never even investigated or treated with the gravity it demanded. This is highly sophisticated technology that was literally handed over to Iran. Oops, said Obamao.
Every one should know that these drones were Obamao’s gift to Iran.
As Dr. Freud said, “there are no accidents.”
My son’s are serving in Aza
With Hashems help they will return home with total victory
We will return our brothers and sisters to their homes in the North and return all our hostages from the hand of Nazi murderers
We need to stay strong and believe that our best ally is watching from heaven
Really well written. Battlefield journalism always seems to make readers “mindful” of the power of written word.
An anniversary is at hand……Oct 7, the Hamas attack on Israel. And terrorists love anniversaries.
A Leftist enabled domestic Islamic disaster is coming. They are already here via the Biden open border policy and the idiotic Obama policy of letting Muslims in from Somalia. Weapons have been smuggled in and are cached in the mosques. God knows what is going in Dearbornistan MI as most of the area is a Jihadi no go zone.
Everyone should read Townhall contributor Kurt Schlichter’s book called “The Attack”. In this book he details a possible coordinated jihad attack in the U.S. over three days by small groups of armed Muslims and cosplaying white wannabe terrorists, first against businesses, second against Americans in their homes, and finally against infrastructure. The attacks take place mostly in the unarmed blue state cities and suburbs. The jihadis do not want to be confronted by armed Americans
Kurt Schlichter said it best in his TownHall articles:
townhall com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/03/25/america-is-going-to-be-targeted-for-a-massive-terrorist-attack-will-you-be-ready-n2636901
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/06/17/joe-biden-reminds-us-to-buy-guns-and-ammunition-n2640535
Bottom line, buy guns and ammo in the areas of the country where you still can. You guys who live in blue cities and blue states, MOVE NOW! You are sitting ducks. Democrats want you unarmed.
Red Staters, stock pile guns, ammo and emergency food. Keep a sharp watch in early October. The S may HTF.
The other thing to be aware of, is that there is a computer analyst somewhere who is mapping the few missiles that get through for times of day, weather conditions, altitude and so on. Hopefully the IDF is doing the same thing – but if there isn’t some sort of variable sweep facility built into the Iron Dome, along with its other functions, so that at least part of its response can’t be predicted, then there needs to be.