On April Fool’s Day this year at 5 pm in the middle of Israel’s war on Gaza that had so far killed 30,000 people mainly Palestinian women and children, Israeli planes flew into Syria and bombed the Iranian Embassy in Damascus. The airstrike killed 16 people including 1 high ranking and 7 other Iranian military officials.
The last time such a thing happened was in 1999 when the US bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. The US said then that it had mistaken it for the nearby Yugoslav Federal Directorate building for Supply and Procurement. Clinton apologised for the accident.
But in this recent incident, Israel did not admit it attacked Iran. US and the West did not condemn Israel although such an act was a violation of all international laws and clear breach of diplomatic rules. It was an act of war by one country against another.
Iran vowed revenge.
2 days ago it did. Iran fired drones carrying warheads and ballistic missiles into Israel from all directions.
It was the first time Iran attacked Israel directly.
Israel and the West said the Iranian attack did not cause much damage as most of the drones and missiles were intercepted by Israel’s defence system and blown up mid air.
The US, Britain, France and Jordan also joined in to help Israel by successfully intercepting some of those missiles.
Israel and the West claimed that 99% of the Iranian 300 drones and missiles failed to hit.
Of those unintercepted ones, US media today said 5 Iranian missiles struck the Nevatim Airbase in the Negev Desert in the South of Israel damaging the main runway, a C-130 aircraft and several storage facilities.
Nevatim is home to Israel’s most sophisticated fighter jets and defended by the world’s most advanced integrated anti-missile defence shield.
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What was severely under reported was that the ineffectiveness of USA Israeli latest aerial defence like the dome over Israel which the Iranians penetrated with some cheap high tech drones and missiles ….that it shocked the Pentagon and Israeli high command in its tracks. That was the main reason Israel dare not retaliate because it’s gaping inadequate military might has just been exposed and short of going nuclear there really was no defence. Going nuclear was not really an option as Russia and the unseen hands of China was ready to go into WW3 if Israel went down that route. Old Joe whose military history is that of a serial draft dodger had no stomach for WW3. This whole event was much more dangerous than appeared in MSM.
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Dear Kerk, you are too polite, given that all the old knives usually show up after a few. Those who are in line with the real perpetrators of 9/11 hold that Iran serves as Tel Aviv’s Michelin Man; in that regard, the regime’s performance is stellar. The other mascot is Saudi Arabia, but that’s another story.
Iran, the region’s military dwarf, is aware of the dynamic between power and control, given that in 2011, it celebrated the launch of its Shahab-4 Dong-One, an ICBM that Ahmadinejad proclaimed was “created to destroy the Jewish state.” Subsequently, after witnessing a test drive of an early model Jericho, Larijani said, “Iran is prepared to repeal (as opposed to destroying) the Jewish state.” In the same year, Stuxnet and Duqu, said to be cyber-weapons of the Mossad, crippled Bushehr and Narantz.
The 7/10 skirmish is not about Netanyahu, Biden, or Khamenei. It is about the blueprint inspired by Herzl’s Greater Israel executed by the Yinon Plan. Down the pike, Tel Aviv is re-drafting the Sykes-Picot by dredging up the old 7th-century Sunni-Shia beef as seen in the sectarian wars in Iraq and Syria gravitating towards a slugfest, not between Washington and Iran, but between Iran and (Tel Aviv’s other mascot) Saudi Arabia.
As an aside, Tel Aviv does not run the war machine. It is the war machine! Iran and Saudi Arabia are its welterweights, ringing up pennies for its military-industrial complex, while Washington and Moscow, its prized heavyweights, are the sound of the big machine.
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