[UNDEFINED] Perhaps the most worrisome news of the day is the Iranian threat to launch a massive drone and missile attack against Israel. Up to this time, Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
has worked with considerable effect through its proxies, principally the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
,  Hezbollah in southern Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
, and — if it is not too far-fetched to suggest — Iran’s increasingly reliable proxy outrider the United States of America under the feckless and incompetent Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant . Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan...
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Like his mentor Obama before him, Biden is one of Israel’s most consistent and determined critics and, judging from his betrayal of Israel at the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
, a capricious and untrustworthy ally as well. Indeed, Biden cares more about Democrat constituents in Dearborn, Mich., the Somalian capital of the U.S., who chant "Death to America," than about one of America’s most reliable friends and partners.
Israel has reacted to the Iranian threat as it must, with its foreign minister stating bluntly that "If Iran attacks from its own territory, Israel will respond and attack in Iran." Israel’s retaliatory and justified invasion of Gaza after Hamas’ barbaric terror strike inside Israel has been called a mistake by Biden, who has emboldened Iran, flush with billions in American bribe money, to threaten Israel with extinction.
His recent pledge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that "our commitment to Israel's security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad" is certainly not heartfelt and is likely duplicitous. Probably the most favorable interpretation we can put on Biden’s bravado may be that he has realized that he allowed the situation, which he helped to provoke, to get out of hand and is now verbally backtracking in a feeble effort to defuse the Iranian menace and the specter of a Mideast war.
When Israel faced catastrophic defeat in the 1973 war, then-Prime Minister Golda Meir refused to consider the nuclear option, even though the situation was existential. Today things may be different. Hezbollah is estimated to deploy up to 150,000 rockets aimed at Israel, more than enough to devastate the country. No less alarming, according to reports, Iran is now agonizingly close to achieving a nuclear breakthrough, and there is no guarantee that the Mullahs would not activate their arsenal, whether conventional or thermonuclear, against the Jewish state.
We know that Iran is a Shi’ite nation, a branch of Islam that believes in the return of the so-called Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, who is descended from Mohammed’s son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph assassinated in 661 in a succession war, after which the split between Sunnis and Shi’ites eventually became permanent. Historian Emmanuel Sivan in "Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics" warned that an integral part of Shi’a Islam’s belief and thought involves the igniting of a worldwide conflagration.
Shi’ites believe that Allah’s kingdom will be established on earth by the Twelfth or Hidden Imam, whose "second coming" can be accelerated by creating the right set of circumstances, namely, the fomenting of violent mostly peaceful upheavals in a holocaust of blood and fire among the nations of the earth — in particular, Israel. And the mullahs are just crazy enough to bring such a cataclysm to pass.
Joe Biden, his advisors, regional "experts," and his party in general are too ignorant of Islamic teachings and readily available Shia scholarship to know any of this or even to consider it worthy of study in order to familiarize themselves with the explosive politics of the sector. As Lesley Hazleton remarks in "After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split," "history is often made by the heedless." But the Israeli leadership is educated and alert to the threat. That is why I suspect they would not respond to imminent destruction as did Golda Meir but would repay annihilating fire with annihilating fire — or, if convinced the missiles are poised to rain from the sky, may well initiate a pre-emptive strike. This is the nuclear tinderbox that Biden through his actions and policies is about to toss his cigar butt into. 
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