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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran already at war with Israel and the US
2024-01-13
[Jpost] It has been nearly 100 days since the forces of darkness stormed the land, roaming about for what like seemed an eternity as they ruthlessly murdered and pillaged their way through various parts of southern Israel.

Like the Crusaders in Western Europe in 1096, Bogdan Chmielnicki and the Cossacks in Ukraine in 1648, and Adolf Hitler and the Germans in the mid-20th century, Hamas and its accomplices have reminded the world of the depravity to which human beings can descend, especially when they are driven by hatred of Jews.

And while much of the media has been referring to the conflict now underway as "the Gaza war," that is a misnomer, and a highly misleading one at that.

Although Gaza may be where most of the fighting is taking place, it is merely one of several fronts where Israel is coming under assault.

Indeed, what we are witnessing is something more far-reaching than a localized armed conflict between the Jewish state and the jihadis of Hamas.

...Consider the following: On five separate fronts throughout the region, terrorist groups that are trained, funded, and guided by Iran are attacking Israelis and Americans.

In Gaza, of course, there is Hamas; while in Lebanon, Hezbollah has been shelling northern Israel and firing rockets and anti-tank weapons at civilian homes and military installations.

In Syria, Iranian-backed forces have launched missiles at the Golan; and Shi’ite militias in Syria and Iraq have carried out more than 118 attacks on US military bases and servicemen in just the past three months.

And then there are the Houthis in Yemen, who have fired missiles at Israel while carrying out more than two dozen attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea since November 18.

...And the fact that these fronts have all flared up simultaneously indicates that this is a sophisticated and coordinated campaign.
Iran’s beloved pincer, which is finally coming together — after a fashion — after all previous attempts foundered on the Arab’s willingness to talk big then let the other guy do the fighting. And one notices that this time, yet again, the Gazans are doing almost all of the work.
...While it is true that Iran has thus far refrained from directly attacking Israel or the US, perhaps to avoid giving them a pretext to strike, Tehran has done just about everything short of that.
They don’t want Israel or America to feel the need to bounce their rubble.
...It bears recalling that it was just last summer that Washington made an inane deal with Iran in which it agreed to remove a freeze on the transfer of $6 billion in Iranian assets held in South Korea in exchange for the release of five Americans held hostage.

Just as critics of the deal predicted, it sent a compelling message of US weakness, which Iran has been lustily exploiting ever since.

...Diplomacy and appeasement have failed, and Iran is now racing toward the nuclear finish line even as it gleefully attacks Israel and the US through its proxies. This cannot be allowed to continue, and it appears that force is the only option to put a halt to the Iranian threat.
Mind you, if Iran is gone, PetroArabs will get boisterious again.
But they don’t have nearly as much money to play with as they did when Al Qaeda was the new, cool thing. And whatever Israel can do to Iran they can also do to the PetroArabs, and without Iran Israel also has less need to hold back elsewhere.
Posted by:Grom the Reflective

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