TWO PAST BLOGS ABOUT ISRAEL, HAMAS AND IRAN

Why is the stench of Iran all over the rapidly escalating, near all-out war, between Israel, and hamas/Islamic jihad?

Please read Herb Keinon’s article at jpost.com and see for yourself.

Then remind yourself that it was Barack Obama and John Kerry who cut the “deal” with Iran that resulted our handing over $150 billion dollars of formerly-frozen assets which are now being used to fund their international terrorist activities.

I’ll end this blog now, on the grounds that, if you don’t understand what’s going on here and how it came to be, I probably won’t be able to explain it to you.

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A direct attack by Israel, on Iran – most likely its military and/or nuclear assets.

It is inevitable.  The only question is when the attack will take place, how extensive it will be and what part(s) of Iran Israel will hit.

Iran is on record – indelibly, indisputably – as being committed to the destruction of Israel and the death of Jews there (and elsewhere). To that end, it has supplied anti-Israel/anti-Jewish terror groups in Israel’s neighboring states with the means to help accomplish this goal.

Over the past weeks there have been attacks on Israel from these groups, from Judea/Samaria (aka the west bank) and Gaza; all allies, and clients, of Iran.

From Seth J. Frantzman’s article for the Jerusalem Post:

A week of attacks on Israel, including rockets fired from Lebanon, Gaza and Syria, represents the manifestation of an Iranian strategy to confront Israel with multiple threats on different fronts. Although different groups may be behind the attacks from those places, these groups are likely all linked to Iran. The groups involved include Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and others that may go by different or new names, but which are proxies of Tehran.

Iran has long sought to bring its conflict with Israel to the Jewish state’s borders. Its backing of Hezbollah and Hamas was key to that strategy over the decades. For instance, Tehran supplies Hamas with financial support and also helped it develop longer-range rockets and a larger arsenal. Whereas Hamas rockets could once only travel a few kilometers, now they can reach most parts of Israel.

The Islamic Republic also supported Islamic Jihad, which is even more of an Iranian proxy than Hamas. The group not only has an arsenal thought to include thousands of rockets, but it has gunmen in the West Bank and its leadership often resides in Damascus.

So far, Israel has retaliated by hitting the places these attacks are physically coming from.

But how much longer will it be before Israel hits the place where these attacks are truly coming from?  The place which is training and arming Israel hating terrorists who are fully committed to destroying the Jewish state?

I have written about the inevitability of an Israeli attack on Iran before.  But now, timing-wise, it is hard to imagine that the day of reckoning is far off.

Frankly, any day Israeli forces launch such an attack will be no surprise to me.  And, other than people who hate Israel as much as the Iran “government” and its cronies do, who can blame them?

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