Historic Opportunity
War Day 362
War
Iranian Rockets Over Tel Aviv Area
Iran fired 181 missiles at Israel on Tuesday night. Most were intercepted either by Israeli, American or Jordanian defenses. According to the Wall Street Journal, twelve hours earlier Iran sent messages to Arab leaders of their intention to strike Israel. The messages ultimately found their way to the desk of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu. Netanyahu responded with a severe warning that Iranian strategic targets would be hit if Iran carried through with their plans.
Israeli media and the IDF spokesman began publicizing the expected threat by Iran. At 19:38 sirens blasted all across Israel. Rockets began falling. Another siren sounded at 19:52 and another wave of rockets races towards Israel. Again, most were shot down. A few landed. One person, a Palestinian living near Jericho, was killed and three were injured around the country.
The IDF spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, went on the air and said that the attack was over and no other attacks were expected. He said Israelis could leave their shelters and safe rooms.
When the smoke cleared, the news showed footage of rocket remains 10 meters long stuck in the ground like a totem pole. Another of a 10 meter long rocket shrapnel laying on the ground burning. TV footage then showed a 5-meter deep four meter wide crater somewhere in the Tel Aviv area. One rocket pierced a home near Herzliya and embedded itself in the house.
According to Nir Drori, Military Affairs correspondent on Channel 12TV, the Iranian attack was a failure. Only a few rockets made it through the Israeli defenses and caused minor damage.
PM Netanyahu said that Israel would retaliate in ways that Iran has not yet seen.
Before the attack, the skies over Israel were busy with jet fighters at all times of the day and night as Israel continued to pound Lebanon following the elimination of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah on Friday, an event that has been described as opening a new page in the Middle East.
Israel had reportedly been tracking Nasrallah’s movements for a few months. Nasrallah had fled Lebanon after the beeper attacks but had returned. And held a fateful meeting in his bunker.
Nasrallah’s bunker was destroyed on Friday when ten Israeli F-15i Jets dropped over 80 tons of munitions on the bunker, to make certain he was killed,.. within 10 seconds. One analysts said that the attack was like something out of Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ film where each plane dove individually and dropped their payload on the exact spot of the previous jet until the shell of the bunker was penetrated and ultimately destroyed.
According to the Financial Times, Israel tracked Nasrallah to a bunker built deep below an apartment complex in south Beirut. “We will reach everyone, everywhere,” bragged the pilot of the F-15i warplane that the Israeli army said dropped the lethal payload, destroying at least four residential buildings.”
The times added that “…in nearly four decades of battling Hizbollah, only recently has Israel truly turned the tide.”
According to the Financial Times, one of the reasons Hezbollah became vulnerable was that it went from a ‘Terrorist group’ to a ‘Terrorist Army.’
“A former high-ranking Lebanese politician in Beirut said the penetration of Hezbollah by Israeli or US intelligence was “…the price of their support for Assad…They had to reveal themselves in Syria,” he said, where the secretive group suddenly had to stay in touch and share information with the notoriously corrupt Syrian intelligence service, or with Russian intelligence services, who were regularly monitored by the Americans.
“They went from being highly disciplined and purists to someone who [when defending Assad] let in a lot more people than they should have,” said Yezid Sayigh, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center. “The complacency and arrogance was accompanied by a shift in its membership — they started to become flabby.
“…The group had only started this round of fire with Israel on October 8, in solidarity with Iran-backed Hamas, in an attempt to keep at least some Israeli firepower pinned down on its northern border. ‘Hezbollah felt obliged to take part in the fight, but at the same time limited itself severely — there was never really any intention of them taking an initiative where they might have some advantage,’ said Sayigh.
“They seem to have thrown off a few rockets here and there, and taken a few hits in return, and getting lulled into a notion that this was the limit of it — they kept one, if not both, hands tied behind their back and did nothing approaching their own full capability.”
According to Israeli military analysts, many of Hizbollah’s missile capabilities remain intact. “Hezbollah did not disappear in the last 10 days — we’ve damaged and degraded them and they are in the stage of chaos and mourning,” said Miri Eisin, the former senior intelligence officer. “But they still have lots of capabilities that are very threatening.”
However, other analysts say that Hizbollah is now in a weakened state and ripe for defeat.
Reportedly, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are fleeing Beirut. Some are trying to make their way to Syria.
Hezbollah has also confirmed the killing of Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, who was targeted in an Israeli raid on the southern suburb of Beirut yesterday.
The Israeli military also says it killed “more than 20” Hezbollah members of varying ranks during its attack on Friday that also killed the group’s head Hassan Nasrallah.
In a statement on Telegram, the IDF said those who were killed had been present in the building where Nasrallah was killed and was managing different operations for the group.
Those it claimed it killed include:
Ali Karaki, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front
Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, Head of Nasrallah’s Security Unit
Samir Tawfiq Dib, Nasrallah’s “long-time confidant”
Abed al-Amir Muhammad Sablini, Head of Hezbollah’s Force-Build Up
Ali Naaf Ayoub, coordinator of Hezbollah’s firepower
Also, on Sunday, the Jerusalem Post reported that the IDF announced that Nabil Kaouk, chief of Hezbollah’s preventive security unit and a member of the terror group's council, was eliminated by the IDF in Lebanon on Saturday,
According to Reuters, on Sunday, the body of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, 64, was pulled from the rubble of his bunker. Reuters reported that Nasrallah’s body had no direct wounds and that it appeared the cause of death was blunt trauma from the force of the blast.
Also in the bunker were other top Hezbollah advisors including Iranian general Abbas Nilforashan of the Iranian army.
Ohad Hemo, Arab affairs correspondent on Channel 12TV said that Nasrallah didn’t understand that things had changed after Oct. 7th.
Alon Ben David, speaking on Channel 13TV said that Hamas is weaker now after Nasrallah’s death. But is still a strong enemy. “But, not the same Hezbollah we say 10-days ago…They now have a communications problem. They can’t mount attacks they had planned. He also said, “Israel now sees an opportunity to change the situation in the area."”
Or Heller, military correspondent for Channel 13TV said that this was like a billiard game. Hitting Hezbollah was also going to impact Hamas. He hoped that this influences Sinwar to come to an agreement, although he admitted he didn’t know if Sinwar was still alive. Heller also said, “This is a historic opportunity to change the security situation in the north.”
According to Tamir Heyman, former head of Military Intelligence, speaking on a Channel 12TV panel, Nasrallah’s mistake was not realizing how much Israel had changed since Oct 7th. Heyman said that Israel’s new goals are to go into Southern Lebanon and clean out the Radwan unit of Hezbollah from the border area. Then go further and further taking out more targets. And finally go all the way into Lebanon and bomb Beirut. The goal was to return the 80,000 Israelis residents to their homes in the north. And, says Heyman, Israel then needs to find a good diplomatic solution.
Zohar Palti, former head of Mossad’s intelligence directorate, said on Channel 12TV that “Nasrallah’s hubris was his undoing. He’d locked himself into a secure room, cut off from the news and other communications. And he paid for it.”
Palti also said that what was important was how many Hezbollah missile strongholds have been destroyed. “That’s what’s important. The IDF needs to work hard. And we’ve just started. Ammunition warehouses need to be destroyed.”
David Horowitz, editor of the Times of Israel, wrote that “Israel has learned from its mistakes. It is Hezbollah that has proven arrogant and overconfident. Now their master Iran have to take over.”
This after almost the entire top echelon of Hezbollah has been eliminated and someone has to step up and resume control of the fight against Israel.
Iran had sworn to revenge the death of Nasrallah and General Nilforashan, but not said how.
Before the Iranian rocket attacks on Tuesday, analysts said that Iranian leaders were divided over the response. Some said Iranian leaders were worried that an attack could come from the USA aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln strike force that is in the region. The USA has sworn to stand by Israel and would attack Iranian ports and nascent nuclear facilities in the event of an Iranian attack on Israel.
Following the Iranian missile attack, that was twice the Iranian missile attack in April, Amos Gilad told Israel Radio’s Reshet Bet that Israel had to measure their response carefully, and make certain the US was going to agree with any attack planned by Israel.
Most analysts consider the elimination of Nasrallah a ‘game changer’ in the middle east. According to the Times of Israel, Nasrallah was the “Lynchpin” that has been keeping together an Iranian plot aimed at destroying Israel by 2040.
According to IDF Chief of Staff Herzi HaLevi, “Nasrallah wanted to destroy Israel. We made sure that doesn’t happen.”
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said “This was the most important attack in years. And against a man who has been an enemy of Israel.”
PM Netanyahu addressed Israel on TV Sunday night He said …….
Avi Dichter, former head of the Shin Bet, told Channel 12TV that “Every enemy of Israel should be worried now."
Nasrallah was the Iranian proxy that operated from Lebanon but controlled a vast array of tentacles of the Iranian “Axis of Resistance,” like the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah militias in Syria and Iraq, and Hezbollah’s deadly foreign arm responsible for bombing targets around the world, like the attack on the Argentinian Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires on 18 July 1994, killing 85 people and injuring over 300.
Replacing Nasrallah as Iran’s trigger-man will be hard, say observers. Nasrallah has been in power for thirty years and built a substantial organization that has an army more powerful than that of Lebanon. Under Nasrallah’s rule, Hezbollah has also become a political party with a majority of representatives in the Lebanese parliament.
Israelis rejoiced at the news. Loudspeakers on Israeli beaches announced Nasrallah’s elimination. Even on Sunday, Israelis walking the streets or in the malls were greeted with smiles of relief.
Also, according to Roie Case, Arab Affairs reporter on Channel 13TV, the Sunni Moslems in Syria were celebrating the death of Nasrallah. Case reminded viewers that Hezbollah had sided with Syria’s president Bashar Assad in a civil war that decimated the Sunni community. Hezbollah fighters have been accused by of torture, rape and murder of Sunnis in Syria.
And, the leader of Oman has said that he was worried that the Hezbollah operatives living in Oman might also be in Israel’s crosshairs.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei is also reportedly in hiding fearing that he’s next on the list.
However, Israeli media reports that Hezbollah still has an arsenal of over 100,000 rockets and drones. And that the Hezbollah Sura council has named Nasrallah’s cousin Hashem Safieddine, a Moslem cleric, as Nasrallah’s successor. But the Jerusalem Post reports that Hezbollah denies chasing Safieddine as Nasrallah’s replacement. And that no one else has yet been named.
Last week the US and France tried to get Israel to agree to a cease-fire in Lebanon. Reportedly, Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu had agreed to the terms. However, when he landed in the USA on Friday to give a speech at the UN, he surprised his American friends by saying no to any cease-fire. Pundits speculate that he did so because a decision had been reached between the time he agreed to a cease-fire and his landing in the USA that Nasrallah would be taken out.
Israel had taken a modular approach to gaining the advantage over Hezbollah. In a well-planned moved, the series of events leading up to Nasrallah’s elimination were first the exploding beepers and walkie-talkies that wounded about 1,500 Hezbollah operatives and leaders. Then the strike on an apartment that killed 14 of Nasrallah’s top commanders, then the elimination of Nasrallah himself.
According to reports, Hezbollah is in disarray, the top leadership destroyed, and those remaining under constant attack.
Some analysts are staying that Israel is no longer fighting against Iranian proxies, but against Iran itself. And that we are now involved in an Iran-Israel war.
The Ground Attack
Israeli Tanks On Northern Border
On Sunday, Israeli media reported that a limited Israeli incursion into Lebanon had begun. Israeli commandos reportedly snuck into Lebanon in order to locate and destroy Hezbollah tunnels and possible anti-tank launch sites.
The New York Times had already reported that the IDF was planning a limited ground invasion of South Lebanon. And Two brigades of Israeli troops have gathered on the Lebanese border preparing for a ground By Tuesday, two reserve division had been deployed on the Lebanese border.
Alon Ben David, speaking on a Channel 13TV panel, said on Saturday night that Hezbollah had ‘only about 300-400 fighters’ in the 10 km area from the border to the Litani River. Or Heller added that most of the civilians have left that area. Other news outlets reported that up to 4,000 Hezbollah fighters remained in Southern Lebanon.
Reports are that over 150,000 Lebanese have left southern Lebanon for the north. However, when they arrive in Beirut they find there are no facilities read for them.
Even though New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, wrote that invading Lebanon would be costly for Israel since Hezbollah was quite skilled in the use of anti-tank rockets, and has a network of tunnels that could be death traps for Israelis.
Even so, according to CNN, on Monday night Israel launched a “limited ground operation” into Lebanon. CNN said this was a “new and dangerous phase in almost a year of war.” Israel went ahead and sent tanks and troops into Lebanon.
Military analysts say this was an Historic opportunity for Israel to neutralize the Hezbollah threat and should take advantage of a weakened confused Hezbollah.
Gaza
A 1 kilometer long tunnel was destroyed by Israeli sappers in Gaza. Israel continues to fight and search for hostages.
Meanwhile fighting continues, but the crack troops have been moved to the north.
North
IDF Commando In Front Of Hezbollah Tunnel
A Weapons Cache Found In Hezbollah Tunnel in South Lebanon
According to Israeli media, Israeli commandos entered S. Lebanon on Sunday to ferret out Hezbollah targets, locate Hezbollah positions and even go into Hezbollah tunnels to neutralize the Hezbollah threat.
The IDF then began pounding Southern Lebanon with artillery fire. On Tuesday the IDF sent tanks across the border. Israel had already pre-positioned two reserve brigades along the border. Reportedly, there was fierce fighting between Israeli and Hezbollah forces.
According to the Times of Israel, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said the terror group was planning to use villages near the border for “staging grounds for an October 7-style invasion into Israeli homes.”
“Hezbollah turned Lebanese villages next to Israeli villages into military bases already for an attack on Israel,” he says.
On Tuesday, the IDF spokesman said, according to Ynetnews, "Since the beginning of the war, the IDF has conducted dozens of targeted operations in areas near the border in southern Lebanon in order to dismantle Hezbollah’s terrorist capabilities and infrastructure that pose a threat to Israeli civilian communities in northern Israel,"
Some of the operations were carried out up to 10 kilometers north of the border and according to military plans, 15 years in the making. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's plan was for Radwan units numbering 4,000 to 6,000 men, disguised as civilians, to enter the area where equipment had been placed awaiting them to invade border area communities and abduct soldiers.
The military said that based on precise intelligence, troops conducted targeted operations against Hezbollah compounds to dismantle the military capabilities of the terror group's Radwan force and prevent them from invading Israel as Hamas did on October 7.
Israeli Air Strike Destroys Hezbollah Tunnels In South Lebanon
"The troops also uncovered and destroyed underground infrastructure, struck thousands of targets and hundreds of weapons storage facilities, tons of explosives, and hundreds of living areas for operatives, command centers and more. Some of the weapons were recovered and taken by the soldiers back into Israeli territory.”
Hagari says the terror group had planned “to invade Israel, attack Israeli communities and massacre innocent men, women and children. They called this plan, ‘Conquer the Galilee.'”
“We will not let the 7th of October happen again on any one of our borders,” he vowed, almost a year after some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault, sparking the ongoing war in Gaza.
Ynet reported that The IDF believes a few hundred Radwan troops remain active in the area and some 1,000 are further north near the Litani River and the coast. Most Radwan fighters fled north of the Litani, the military said.
IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that there are still many villages in the border region of South Lebanon that have terror infrastructure in them and that the military's offensive was ongoing although he could not say how long it would last.
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant reportedly fought the reticent government and pushed for the ground incursion. This was in keeping with Gallant’s promise to make the north safe for the return of the 60,000 residents who have been forced from their homes by constant Hezbollah rocket, drone and mortar attacks.
Many analysts say that since Hezbollah has been shaken and is in chaos now is the time to attack and push Hezbollah to the brink. Nearly all of Hamas’ top brass have been killed, including Hezbollah’s charismatic and fanatical leader Hassan Nasrallah and nearly all of his closest associates.
The stated objective was a ‘limited incursion’ that would push the Hezbollah Radwan forces back from the Israeli border. And to try to get the Lebanese government to agree to abide by UN resolution 1701 that required Hezbollah to withdraw to beyond the Litani river, and turn the area between that river and the Israeli border into a demilitarized zone.
According to ISW, the Institute for the Study of War, “The IDF’s degradation of Hezbollah’s weapons capabilities and the commanders with knowledge of these systems fit into Israeli war objectives for Lebanon, which would require the disruption or degradation of Hezbollah’s ability to fire rockets into northern Israel. Syrian sources also reported Israeli drones and explosions near Qudsaya, outside west Damascus, on September 30”
US Sec. of Defense Lloyd Austin has given tacit approval to this limited incursion. US spokesman Jake Sullivan has said that Israel has the right to defend itself and its borders but was worried about a ‘mission creep.’
In 1982 Israeli forces entered Lebanon for a ‘limited operation’ against Yasir Arafat’s PLO forces along the border. Ultimately, the IDF pushed all the way to Beirut and forced Arafat to flee the country for Tunisia. Israel then occupied South Lebanon until a unilateral withdrawal in 2000.
Rockets continued to fall into northern Israel even after Hezbollah leader Nasrallah’s death and the Iranian attack. The northern resort town of Metula has, according to mayor David Azulai, been turned into a ghost town. He says no residents will return to Metula, or the north, until they feel safe.
The IDF has also shot down a number of rockets on Tuesday and Wednesday aimed at the north. And intercepted a drone flying towards Israel over the Mediterranean.
According to the Times of Israel, on Tuesday Three or four rockets were launched from Lebanon at central Israel in the attack a short while ago, according to initial IDF assessments. Some of the rockets were intercepted, and at least one impacted on Route 6 near Kafr Qasim.
A 54-year-old man was moderately wounded by shrapnel in the attack and is being taken to Belinson Hospital, the Magen David Adom ambulance service says.
However, even with the latest rocket attacks, since the nearly non-stop bombing of Hezbollah sites in Lebanon, the number of rockets fired has decreased dramatically, and their aim was off. This is attributed to the Mossad and IDF’s actions destroying Hezbollah communications devices, jamming GPS signals, and in general putting Hezbollah in disarray.
Also, as soon as a rocket is fired from Lebanon the launch site is identified, targeted and attacked by Israeli planes.
On Sunday, a single rocket fired from Lebanon entered Israel heading for Haifa. Sirens sounded in Haifa and across the surrounding towns sending 20,000 people into their shelters. Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav told Channel 12TV that the rocket had fallen harmlessly into the water off Haifa’s coast.
According to analysts, Israel is finally gaining some ground against Hezbollah, and some optimistically say that it looks as if Israel can even win the war.
West Bank
Israeli Security Forces Outside Balata Refugee Camp
The IDF and Shin Bet continue to fight on one of Israel’s seven fronts, this one the West Bank. The operation began Sunday night. On Monday, according to the Times of Israel, the IDF announced that an IDF special forces soldier was seriously wounded during clashes in the West Bank.
The fighting reportedly took place in the Balata refugee camp outside of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Apparently, IDF soldiers were moving in to arrest a wanted terrorist when gunfire erupted from inside the target’s building.One gunman was killed and another wounded, according to the IDF.
Elsewhere, the army says troops killed a Palestinian accused by Israel of planning and executing attacks on troops in the area. A statement from the army says Abed Shaheen had recently attempted to put together a cell to attack soldiers near Nablus.
Six people were arrested during the overnight raids, the army says.
Terrorists Getting Off Light Rail Attacking Israelis
Also, on Wednesday night, two terrorists from the West Bank city of Hebron attacked and murdered seven people and wounded 17 in the Jaffa region of Tel Aviv. The two two terrorists, Muhammad Chalaf Sahar Rajab 19, and Hassan Muhammad Hassan Tamimi, 25 from Hebron, were shot dead by members of a Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality security patrol unit and citizens using personal firearms, according to the police.
Reportedly, the two terrorists had snuck into Israel and boarded the Tel Aviv light rail. As the train approached the Jaffa stop the two attacked a soldier with a knife and stole his rifle. Then they got off the train and opened fire at waiting passengers.
One of those murdered was Inbar Negev, a 33-year-old mother of a nine-month old baby.
Hostages
Hostage Families Protesting in Tel Aviv
Speaking on Israel’s Reshet Bet radio, a source close to hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin, the Israeli negotiator who negotiated the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011 after five years of captivity in Gaza, said that Baskin has been in touch with Hamas and an agreement was ready to be implemented to release the hostages in Gaza.
The source said that the government has not responded to this new proposal.
Red Sea
Houthi Rebels Parading In Yemen
Israel hit the port and electric power station and oil pipeline in Yemen in response to the Yemenite based Houthis, an Iranian proxy, who attacked Israel on Sunday with a long-range rocket. Sirens sounded in central Israel sending residents scurrying to their bomb shelters and safe rooms. The rocket was reportedly intercepted by the Arrow anti-missile system.
Part of the destroyed missile, several feet long fell on a highway near Tzur Hadassah, outside Jerusalem. No injuries were reported.
Politics
According to the Times of Israel, PM Netanyahu announced on Monday that New Hope party leader Gideon Sa’ar had rejoined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. This came just a week after the prime minister’s ally-turned-rival said he would not accept an offer to replace Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
In a Channel 12TV poll, should elections be held now, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud coalition would gain 49 seats, but opposition parties lead by Neftali Bennet would garner 66 seats. Bennet has yet to formally announce his return to politics.
However he did say, in response to the Iranian missile attack on Tuesday, that Israel had no choice but to consider Iran an existential threat and launch attacks against their nuclear facilities.
Antisemitism
University of Pittsburg Tower Of Learning
For the second time in a month a Jewish student was attacked at the University of Pittsburg. The student reported he was attacked by six to eight men who spotted the Jewish star he wore around his neck. The student was knocked down and kicked repeatedly suffering bruises and swollen lips.
A month ago another attack on two Jewish students wearing skullcaps as they made their way to the Hillel House for Shabbat dinner.
JTA reports that the U of Pittsburg is a campus spread around the city. And that the recent attack took place only a couple of miles from the Tree of Life synagogue shooting that claimed 11 lives.
Editorial
Why did it take so long for Israel to get its act together? Where were all these brilliant strategists on Oct 7th when Hamas invaded Israel from the south with over 3,000 men, some say up to 6,000, killing 1200 Israelis, some brutally raped and massacred, and taking over 250 hostage?
According to Yossi Klein HaLevi, a journalist and member of the Hartman Institute, Israel’s war isn’t with Hezbollah or Hamas but with Iran. And some say that Iran is now on “its back foot.”
Yaron Avraham, political correspondent on Channel 12TV, said that the Israeli government was no longer talking about attacking Iranian proxies but Iran itself.
Iran has said that the latest attack on Israel was all the retribution they were going to exact for the assassination of Hamas politburo head Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Or the recent killing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander in Lebanon, Brigadier Gen. Abbas Nilforoushan, who was a top advisor to Hezbollah’s Nasrallah and killed in the bunker with him.
The US was worried about this Iranian response. And has said that, according to White House spokesman Jake Sullivan that the US Military coordinated with Israel to defend itself. And that the US would coordinate with Israel when they respond to this attack.
Eytan Ben Eliyahu, former head of the Israel Air Force told Channel 12TV that Israel had to be precise in the response. That the attack can’t be like that against Lebanon.
Others have said that attacking Iran was difficult. When Israel attacked the Houthi targets in Yemen they used two dozen F-35 fighters that were refueled in the air on the way to the target.
Experts point out that reaching Lebanon was simple and Israel could fly many sorties a day. The same would not be true for Iran that was some 1800 kilometers, about 950 miles, away. And that any strike had to be in coordination with Israel and other allies.
However, others say that Iran is more worried about the US, and the warships patrolling the Persian Gulf and Red Sea than Israel. An Iranian strike against Israel could result in a US strike against Iranian ports, oil refineries and even nuclear facilities.
According to Dr. Ori Goldberg a leading academic and an Iranian expert, told a panel on Channel 13TV that Iran’s leaders primary goal is survival. After that comes the ideology of destroying Israel. And then influencing events in the Middle East.
Most pundits agree that there has been a change in attitude, and a changing of the guard in the Middle East. And a chance for a new tomorrow.
A friend told me she’d been to a fortune teller. She’s that sort of person. The fortune teller said that Israel was now on a good track. This would be a good year. And that there would be a change in government.
Happy New Year
Shana Tova