As you all know by now, last night Iran launched an attack against Israeli territory using drones and missiles (see, for example, this Daily Mail report). MC sends this brief update on the situation from Sderot.
Where Do We Go From Here?
by MC
The Middle East game just changed. The war-crime and terrorist country Iran just upped the ante with a botched raid of hundreds of missiles of various sorts fired at Israeli CIVILIANS.
At about 11pm we got notice of a huge launch of missiles including UAVs, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Thanks be to Yah, none landed and we must thank US and UK forces for their assistance along with the Jordanian and Saudi air forces.
At about 1:45am we started to hear far-away explosions, as if we were bombarding Khan Yunis way down south.
My second son called this morning. They were in the middle of it; they live near an IAF base in the northern Negev desert and are not far from the nuclear facility at Dimona.
He, along with my granddaughter (7) arrived back to the sound of air raid sirens. Luckily she slept through most of it. He is of the impression that some of the missiles were intercepted in ‘inner’ space.
So Iran now joins the ranks of the Islamic war criminals, but of course nothing will be done about it. As we all know, Islam is a religion of extreme violence anyway, so only Israel gets chastised.
The O’Biden administration, having financed this attack, now seems to be forbidding any retaliation. Strange — it is as if this were a preplanned attack sanctioned in Washington DC to be a showcase for a senile pseudo-statesman. If so, he was prepared to risk the lives of millions of Israeli ‘innocent civilians’ in order to demonstrate his effulgent virility.
What a mess. As Buffy sang: “Where do we go from here?”
MC lives in the southern Israeli city of Sderot. For his previous essays, see the MC Archives.
“Iran just upped the ante with a BOTCHED [emphasis mine] raid of hundreds of missiles of various sorts fired at Israeli CIVILIANS.”
Just a hunch, but I think it likely that the Mohammedanists’ “botched” raid may’ve been deliberate. That is, considering Iran possesses the largest ballistic missile cache in the Middle East, the 200~300 missiles/drones launched against Israel (mostly targeting an air base?) strikes me as moruva message than a serious attack; and may’ve been intended more to pacify their [always] hysterical Hamas comrades rather than to deal a serious blow to Israel. But I could be wrong.
I reckon Israel’s response’ll be very telling as to how their intel viewed the attack.
“Israel ‘Not Looking’ For Escalation With Iran: US” —Barron’s
https://www.barrons.com/news/israel-not-looking-for-escalation-with-iran-us-ce0b08d3
It wasn’t botched, the missiles that slammed into nothing important were left to do so, the ones that were going to do damage were shot down. Nice that Israel hit all their nuke facilities.
Iran wants the Golan Heights for its oil, and so does Turkey. They already have Russia on the hook for their agenda. Stay tuned, Yah will explain things more completely to them and then you will be seven years cleaning up the mess, bodies and weapons that were left behind by the decimated armies. Read Ezekiel, I am.
“Iran wants the Golan Heights for its oil”
What oil? They’ve been drilling all over Israel and received a bit o’ media attention a decade or so ago, but I’m not aware of any major finds.
Iran wants to delete Israel and all Jews from it ,I do not think oil or anything else in mineral wealth is in the ground of Israel that Iran wants. If there was oil in it they would have been found when England ran the area over 80 years ago. If Israel had oil in the ground they would have started to harvest it many years ago they have enough people there with the education and know to fined it and get it out of the ground . I remembering reading that at one time no Arab country would sell Israel oil and it was buying most oil ,gas ,diesel products shipped from Mexico.
Want to talk about targeting civilians??? Look up Israel’s lavender. An AI targeting system which indiscriminately paints bulls eyes on civilians. People are tired of Israel’s BS. We had no enemies in the Middle East before Israel moved in. There was no mass migration from the Middle East. Ask Israel where the Palestinians should go and they will say Europe. [expletive deleted]
“Want to talk about targeting civilians??? Look up Israel’s lavender. An AI targeting system which indiscriminately paints bulls eyes on civilians. People are tired of Israel’s BS.”
I agree that people are tired of BS, but, to quote former NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg, “Let’s get serious here.”
The “civilians” I presume you’re referring to exist within a highly target-rich environment OF THEIR OWN MAKING. To wit..
“ALMOST THREE IN FOUR PALESTINIANS BELIEVE THE OCT. 7 ATTACK BY HAMAS ON ISRAEL WAS CORRECT…a survey from a respected Palestinian polling institute found.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/poll-shows-palestinians-back-oct-7-attack-israel-support-hamas-rises-2023-12-14/
“Ask Israel where the Palestinians should go and they will say Europe.”
Considering that neither Jordan—the Palestinians previously claimed “homeland”—nor Egypt’s willing to accept any of ’em, as’s the case with just about every other Middle Eastern country, I wonder why? <-rhetorical question
"No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt." —King Abdullah (Jordan)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/king-abdullah-gaza-no-refugees-jordan-no-refugees-egypt-2023-10-17/
Islam has always been an enemy of the west, now those filthy rag headed savages are in our western countries causing havoc and only going to get worse, wake up. There are no fakestinians, only arab muslims from everywhere else, eff them and the people that support them.
The problems with the Middle East started when the West’s oil greed made them wealthy and empowered. Islam is fascist and supremacist and could not stand the Jews making a successful country while theirs were miserable failures. Israel is the land of the Jewish people since ancient times and there has always been a small presence. Waves of Arabs came to the abandoned land to make a living once more Jews could offer work. Read Mark Twain’s description.