According to a report in Israeli media, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is preparing for a possible strike from “Iran-backed militias” in Iraq and Yemen. The IDF reportedly held talks last week about possible attacks from Iraqi militias and the Houthis in Yemen.
Since Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in an apparent Israeli plot, both Israel and the US have been overblowing the threat of possible Iranian retaliation. Israel, like the US, likes to conflate any Shia group in the Middle East with Iran, despite the many different factions and sects.
For example, the Houthis are a Zaydi Shia group and practice a different form of Shiism than the mullahs in Iran. The Houthis are also an entirely homegrown movement and are not the Iranian proxy the US and its allies portray them to be. Zaydi Shia Imams ruled the area of north Yemen the Houthis now control for over 1,000 years until 1962.
While Iran openly supports the Houthis politically, it’s unclear how much military support the Houthis receive from Tehran, if any. Since 2015, the Houthis and Yemen have been under a brutal US-backed Saudi-led siege. Media reports of Houthi attacks inside Saudi Arabia often leave out this context, and Houthi drone attacks are frequently blamed on Iran.
In Iraq, Iran has warned its Shia allies not to provoke the US during the final days of the Trump administration. Demonstrating that not all Shia militias in Iraq are controlled by Iran, some militias rejected the warning, since they have their own nationalist reasons to attack the US.
Over the past year, Israeli airstrikes have been pounding Shia targets in Syria that Israel claims are Iranian-backed. In an interview published last week, IDF Spokesman Hidai Zilberman said Israel had used 500 smart missiles during airstrikes in Syria in 2020. He boasted that neither Iran nor the Syrian government has responded to the Israeli strikes.
Many of the militias Israel targets in Syria also operate in Iraq. In the unlikely case that an attack on Israel comes from Iraq, it could be one of these groups retaliating for years of airstrikes. In 2019, Israeli bombed Iraq, targeting the Popular Mobilization Forces, a group of mostly Shia Iraqi state-sponsored militias that was formed in 2014 to fight ISIS.
They won’t know when Iran attacks. Pan Am Flight 103, they are still trying to put the pc together and blaming everyone but the Iranians.
When the US Vincennes blew up Iranian 655 and killed 259 Iranian civilians,
the wife of the Capt. Will Rogers III had her van blown up. Other near misses until the US paid them compensation.
According to Wikipedia, the investigation was shifted away from the bombing (pipe bomb) being a reprisal (terrorism).
new election in Israel-niten yaa hoo needs a war.
One more reason to love the Jewish State:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/03/palestinians-excluded-from-israeli-covid-vaccine-rollout-as-jabs-go-to-settlers
Get Real! If there was starvation about, you might feel sorry for the other guy’s starving children, but you would feed your own first.
But if you’re keeping another person’s children under your jackboot then you are responsible for them
ps: nice try at hasbara.
I gotta wait;they gotta wati-everyone can’t be first. Let the Palestinian authority buy the vaccine on the open market, like everyone else. Let them use the funds that support terrorists and buy their own medications.
Don’t move the goal posts. You said one thing in your first response, and now you take a different position.
Frankly, I’m tired of your crap, hatred, and ignorance. Troll. BYE!