(The Economic Collapse Blog)—I have been sitting here trying to figure out what to write about what we just witnessed. Just like October 7th, the shocking attack on Israel that just took place altered the course of history. This was the first time that Iran ever attacked Israel directly, and I was flooded with emails by readers that were concerned about World War III. So now that the Iranian attack is over, what will Israel do now? That is the big question.
If Israel directly attacks Iran, the Iranians will inevitably respond and the conflict could spiral out of control. But if the Israelis do not strike back, they will look weak and the Iranians could feel like they will be able to get away with similar things in the future.
Overall, the Iranians sent more than 300 drones and missiles toward Israeli territory…
Two Israeli officials told the New York Times that Iran launched 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles as part of the unprecedented attack on Israel. According to the sources, “most of the launches were carried out from Iranian territory, while a small portion of them came from Iraq and Yemen.” Besides the U.S, Britain and Jordan also helped Israel intercept the launches.
The good news is that the U.S. military and the IDF were able to shoot down 99 percent of them…
At 7:15 am IDF Spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari said that 99% of the aerial threats were shot down, which he said was a strategic achievement.
That was very good news, and in the end very little damage was done…
He said virtually all of the weapons were intercepted before entering Israeli territory and he reported only minor damage to one military base from the few ballistic missiles that did land in the country. Hagari confirmed that a 10-year-old girl had been “severely injured by shrapnel,” but said “as far as we know, there are no additional casualties.”
The Iranians are trying to frame this strike as a victory, but the truth is that it was a huge defeat.
So that gives Israel options.
If a tremendous amount of damage had been done inside Israel, the Israeli government would have felt a need to respond very forcefully. But since the Iranian attack was such a failure, that gives Israel the option of simply walking away.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, that is what Joe Biden was encouraging Israel to do…
President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US will not support any counterattack against Iran, sources have revealed.
Biden spoke with Netanyahu in a late-night phone call after Iran bombarded Israel with hundreds of missiles and drones on Saturday in response to a drone strike in Syria that killed 12 Iranians, including two top generals.
A senior White House official told Axios that Biden made it clear to Netanyahu that US forces would not participate in any further operations. Netanyahu said he understood.
Biden reportedly told the Israeli Prime Minister: ‘You got a win. Take the win’, amid fears amongst White House officials that an Iran attack will lead to a greater war in the region.
Of course if someone sent more than 300 drones and missiles at U.S. cities, Biden would be singing a much different tune.
In that case, the U.S. military would already be pounding whoever dared to launch such an attack.
And it appears that Israel was ready to hit Iran really hard right away, but the conversation with Biden apparently persuaded Netanyahu to call off an attack for now…
US President Joe Biden dissuaded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from greenlighting an immediate retaliatory strike against Iran after it launched around 300 attack drones and missiles at Israel last night, the New York Times reports.
According to the report, several members of Israel’s war cabinet had been in favor of launching a response attack, but the lack of serious damage caused by Iran, in addition to Netanyahu’s conversation with Biden, led to it being called off.
This doesn’t mean that there will be no Israeli response.
The Israeli war cabinet was scheduled to meet on Sunday, and I am sure that they were discussing their options.
The UN Security Council also met on Sunday, although it wasn’t expected to do much of anything…
The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Sunday over Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel, the body’s president said.
A spokesperson for Malta, which holds the rotating presidency this month, told the press Saturday evening that the Security Council was aiming for the meeting to be held at 4:00 p.m. (11 p.m. Israel time) Sunday after Israel requested the council condemn Iran’s attack and designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.
The wealthy western countries do not approve of what Iran has done, but they are desperate to keep a major war from erupting in the region.
In particular, Joe Biden knows that a major war in the Middle East would be very bad for his chances in November.
So a tremendous amount of pressure will be put on Israel to stand down.
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And Iran has already warned that it will hit Israel again with even greater force if Israel strikes Iranian territory…
Tehran has warned it will strike again with greater force if Israel or the US retaliate for the Iranian strike on Israel that used more than 300 drones and missiles on Saturday night.
The air raids, the country’s first ever direct attack on the Israeli state, brought a years-long shadow war into the open and threatened to draw the region into a broader conflagration as Israel said it was considering its response.
If missiles start flying back and forth, events could quickly spiral out of control.
But Israel has always believed in responding with force when it is attacked. And I believe that there will eventually be a response.
Some are calling for Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear program. If there was ever a golden opportunity to do that, it would be now.
We shall just have to wait and see what happens.
Even though it is uncertain whether or not Israel will directly strike Iran, on Sunday the IDF was conducting “retaliatory strikes” in southern Lebanon…
In a series of retaliatory strikes, Israel has intensified its attacks on southern Lebanon, targeting several areas overnight and in the early morning hours.
The escalating violence has raised concerns of a broader conflict in the region.
In one case, a building that was a “significant weapons manufacturing site” was completely destroyed…
A source within Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group said Israel struck one of its buildings close to the Syrian border today, as tensions soared after Iran directly attacked Israel.
The source told news agency AFP: ‘The Israeli strike targeted an area… near Baalbek and targeted a two-storey building belonging to Hezbollah,’ adding that there were no casualties reported.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency also reported that ‘an enemy air strike targeted a building’ in the village of Nabi Sheet and ‘destroyed it’.
The IDF later confirmed the strike on the ‘significant weapons manufacturing site’ in the Nabi Sheet area.
So Israel is already hitting back.
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But striking Iran directly would be an extremely bold move.
An all-out war with Iran could easily take an apocalyptic turn, and both sides realize this.
We really are in uncharted territory, and it won’t take much to push events over the edge.
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…What will Israel do now ?…you ask…hummm…seems like a better question is …how close to having functional nuclear weapons does Iran have ?…Iran with nuclear capabilities would be the decisive factor in the equation…there are few options possible at this time to consider. if the unknown quality potential of this assessment is not calculated correctly it could be the demise of the state of Israeli existence…make the wrong choice now and there may not be another choice later…
Iran already has nuclear weapons. They have had the scientific community, equipment and materials for years.
This is not a soap opera. Israel and the neocons love it when you folks think it is now or never.
Israel’s bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria was an incredibly reckless and provocative act.
We are observing the continuing war of the Islamic quest to conquer the world. The first two attempts did not accomplish their goal of complete infidel submission to the cult of absolute dominion of all the earth. The Third Jihad is the most important transformation and total victory and nothing will stop them. The USA border has been placed as a highway from hell for every terrorist that wishes to enter in at will. The fact that our federal government has either knowingly or willfully encouraged for such a situation exist is not beyond the realm of possibility.
Indeed this is not a scripted drama or as you put it a ‘soap opera’, but rather an actual turn of events that is extremely noteworthy and instrumental in the ‘Great Reset’ of international world powers…nations will raise up and fight other nations and there will be colossal amount of suffering and deaths. The Islamic cult will lead such an insurrection and is completing its design rapidly. Observe France, Germany, Indonesia, Great Brittan, parts of South Pacific Basin and yes, America…Time will tell if the Third Great Jihad will accomplish its mission…but right now it appears everything is going as scheduled…remember Muslims will always take time out from killing one another to form a united front to vanquish the ‘infidel’ for the sake of Allah…time is ticking
The good news is that the U.S. military and the IDF were able to shoot down 99 percent of them… That’s great until they run out of interceptors like they did in Ukraine. As the Russians proved, if you just keep pounding them, they run out of their 10 million dollar missiles quite quickly, and the sky is yours. Is Iran in for the long term is the only question.
The good news is that the U.S. military and the IDF were able to shoot down 99 percent of them… That’s great until they run out of interceptors like they did in Ukraine. As the Russians proved, if you just keep pounding them, they run out of their 10 million dollar missiles quite quickly, and the sky is yours. Is Iran in for the long term is the only question.
That is indeed ‘good news’…99% is a decisive edge for a combat maneuvering…if that indeed is the end of the conflict, it was well worth the effort…however consider this…Islamic intervention is a long struggle for ultimate victory and goes back to the 5th century…Muslims have never had the vision of a short war strategy…the tactical maneuvering of testing the opponents weaponry under stress, intestinal fortitude of the enemies fighting spirit, the calculation of what armature is sufficient to achieve a successful mission is a tried and true component of Islamic strategic planning.
The latest ‘testing’ of the Israel defense system was not an extreme exercise in futility. Iran is probably doing a complete assessment of what to do next. What appears to the casual observer is that the USA is over-and-done with anything else….its ‘stand down time’ for the USA…which will send a strong message to the Iranians…remember they have been doing this for over 1500 years and are quite good at it…
The Third Jihad is the most important Jihad…it has only just began…it is a slow process that may take more time and lives than we can calculate…Islam has the time and the will to map the conquest…do we have the fortitude and intuitive nature to outlast their determination….so far it looks not so promising for us…we are too divided, arrogant and self-serving to stay in the fray for an extended period of time…and time is not on our side…1500+ years of experience vs 248 years of experience.