The head of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said Wednesday that Israel is “ready” to attack Iran and could do so without help from the US.
“We are ready to act against Iran. The Israeli army has the ability to strike both in distant countries and near home,” IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said.
The comments come as tensions between Israel and Iran are soaring. Israel has ramped up its airstrikes in Syria and killed two members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Damascus last Friday. Tehran has vowed that it will respond.
Israel has a history of launching covert attacks inside Iran, but it’s not clear if its warplanes could pull off airstrikes against the Islamic Republic without assistance from the US. Halevi insisted that Israel can, as the IDF has been preparing to attack Iran for years.
“We know how to act alone. We are a sovereign nation that reserves the right to make its own decisions. It would be good to have the United States on our side, but it is not an obligation,” he said.
The US and Israel have been rehearsing for war with Iran by holding massive military exercises. In January, the US and Israel held their largest-ever joint drills in a provocative message aimed at Tehran.
Tensions are also soaring in the region due to Israel’s crackdown on Palestinians and Israeli forces raiding the Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan. A barrage of rockets was fired into Israel from Lebanon on Thursday in response. Sources told Reuters the rockets were fired by Palestinian factions based in Lebanon, not Hezbollah. Israel has blamed Hamas, signaling a potential escalation in Gaza.
And Iran has harmed Israel how?
They said something mean once. They also support Hezbollah in Lebanon who from time to time take a poke at Israel.
yes and never mind israel’s recent outrage against a muslim mosque
Or bombing Syria, or killing Iranian scientists, or spying on the U.S.
That would be an answer to why the Iranians don’t like the Israelis.
Iran’s theocrats have along history of Judaeophobia.
Sure, but is that sufficient cause for a war? Methinks Bibi needs a distraction about now.
Maybe some valium and some Zen will help fix the problem…
Sure, Donna. Let’s burn some sage, waft it in Satanyahu’s direction, and all will be well 😂
Well said, dear Gypsy, well said……..
Heavy on the Valium. And I mean heavy.
Israels theocrats have a long history of Islamophobia.
Show me where! Israel is not a theocracy-thank you-its leaders are quite secular. How many Persians were subjected to forced conversion by Rabbis?
Sure, and they aren’t Islamophobes either.
They are both governed by theocracies: Israel and Iran. Both of their GODS are probably preparing for battle…
Spy, not only did the Zios attack Muslim worshippers, they were trying to smuggle in innocent goats and lambs for “sacrificial slaughter”!
It’s the Zios that need slaughtering, not helpless animals!
Ah Gypsy:
“Slaughtering” is such an ugly word….
VAPORIZE, that’s the ticket!
And THERE YA GO, Donna! 😉
Why should it be either?
Good Morning TK. 🙂
What’s your solution then, Thomas?
IsraHell is in more violations of UN mandates and Articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention than any other nation.
And no one is stopping them from doing so, the Zionist States of Amerikkka is even assisting them to the tune of $4 billion a year.
The hypocrisy is staggering, mind-blowing.
But literally wanting to slaughter or vaporize certainly can’t be the answer.
I’m not sure what the solution is.
But whatever the solution is, “slaughtering” isn’t it.
Wait for Jake. He’ll tell you about Argentina 1994.
Damn fkn right!Glad you are learning your lessons-. Oh-and Hezbollah is sitingin south Lebanon ready to bring destruction on both Israel and Lebanon.
OMG! The world is coming to an end! Israel better start using the nukes is will not admit that it has.
Just like clockwork you leave your studies at university in Tel Aviv, to make extra money typing dribble. Enough to finance the education, huh?
MY MY,when you loose an argument,you become patronizing.
Hi Jake:
Inhale…. Start the day with kind words like: GOOD MORNING!
What lessons am I learning? I was insulting you. Oh wait. You were right.
The admission that you must insult people who diagree shows what You are.
Hi Jake, we like having you here because you help keep things lively. Wars does not intend to insult, he is just very direct.
Thanks Donna but I did intend to insult him. His comments are insulting to everyone’s intelligence. So, I’m just countering his insults with insults.
I completely understand wars.
You brighten up all of our days.
Very sad indeed. You cannot handle facts and see your world view shattered.
It’s you that can’t handle facts. Assassinations, sabotages and weekly bombing of a sovereign country. Those would be called terrorism if Iran were doing the same. When we talk about Iranian terrorism you have to bring up 1994.
Not really.
wow speak of the devil
The devil himself 😉
Jake thinks 2 wrongs make a right.
Israel can do no wrong in Jake’s eyes.
“The Israeli government approved earlier this month the plan to establish a “national guard” under the direct command of far-right minister of national security, Itamar Ben Gvir.
“Palestinians say the force, which will focus on working against “riots” or “crime” in Palestinian areas within Israel, will be used to target them.
“The force, which has been opposed by senior Israeli security figures, will have a one billion shekels budget (around $277m) and employ around 2,000 guards who will have the same authority as police officers.
“Ben Gvir has already started mulling candidates to command the force to ensure its agenda aligns with his.
“According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, one of the leading candidates is Avinoam Emunah, a retired colonel known for encouraging his soldiers to enjoy killing Palestinians, refusing to work with a woman, and for his strict religious views…
“…Emunah punished his soldiers who did not use enough violence in the Gaza Strip.
“A video filmed during the 2014 war on Gaza showed him telling his soldiers that it’s going to “much less pleasant” to be an Arab.
“Much of the time, you’ll be seeing them fleeing… Kill them as they flee,” he is heard telling his soldiers in the video.
“Smile, guys. You should enjoy it. Try to enjoy it”
Jake will be fine wars, he just needs some glasses.
An Israeli Knesset member has called for the killing of couples involved in mixed marriages during a speech in parliament.
Yitzhak Pindrus is a member of the United Torah Judaism, an ultra-Orthodox party that believes in a homogenous Jewish state and society.
He called for the murder of “people who contribute to miscegenation”, invoking a Biblical story about the murder of a Jewish man and non-Jewish woman while they were making love by lancing a spear through their engaged sexual organs.
He made his comments on Monday while addressing – and looking at – Mansour Abbas, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who is a deputy minister in Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition and the head of the Islamist Raam party.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-knesset-member-pindrus-calls-murder-mixed-marriages
Iran is preventing Israel from becoming the dominate power in the M.E , this has all way`s been the plan , just as Russia / China are stopping the yanks from becoming the dominate power of the world . Israel rules the M.E leaving the yanks to rule the rest .
It sounds like a reshuffling of the deck.
Have at it boys, I like the sound of that.
The U.S. would be blamed anyway for helping in the attacks. It would be hard to believe that there wouldn’t be at least some kind of covert assistance.
That’s all we hear from western media… and same title too…! But when Israel attacks its neighbors details flow in…!
Er…IsraHell… have you forgotten 🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷?
Apparently you have. Iran has friends in high places, while you have only the near-bankrupt Disunited States.
Who are these Aholes?
Put up or shut up, Israel. While I am not a warmonger, the constant yapping from the peanut gallery is quite tiresome.
On a side issue, with the recent ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, what actions might the Saudis take if their new friend is attacked? It’s not hard to image they’d cut oil production again to put the squeeze on the US to induce us to rein in our unruly stepchild.
“We know how to act alone. We are a sovereign nation that reserves the right to make its own decisions. It would be good to have the United States on our side, but it is not an obligation,” he said.
Right, it’s not an obligation. Neither is that $4 billion a year but that keeps coming no matter what. I’m thinking this guy likes talking shit while knowing full well they have our congress in their back pocket and there is no way in hell the US wouldn’t be involved. It’s the neocon wet dream coming true.
F*ckin’’ aye Wars, ain’t it the truth!
Easier to paper tiger sounding more threatening after two consecutive attacks on defenseless Gaza and Lebanon…!
Have at it, Israel, alone.
This is a lie. Israel wants the US to do its dirty work.
Bibi is probably worried about his ever shrinking approval rating.
Israel will take a beating from Iran , then Israel will shout help us uncle sam.
If Israel causes nuclear Armageddon, I guess we can stop footing the bill?….
Yesterday’s MoA details prep for Israel’s long-looked-for and deeply-desired “big war”, brought by China’s recent wildly successful peace mission. And apparently this (“You better chose the right side, my dear friend.”) was the warning delivered by Burns to MBS. The US Navy has dispatched an Ohio class sub and carrier strike group to the area. It has begun with Israel’s brutal pounding of the Hezbollah and Syria, to intensify until Iran is forced to act and give Washington the obligatory ‘legal’ pretext. Could well be the next step on the staircase to hell.
If and.when WWLast commences, it will MOST certainly be IsraHell that initiates.
Dear Earth:
It’s been a heck of a ride but unfortunately, it had to come to an end or an almost end?……………………………………………………………………………..
PEACE
A note to Israel:
I have tried, very hard, over these many years, to try and understand you and I simply cannot… Inhale………………………………………………….
I’m updating my nuclear fallout shelter just to be on the safe side…
Nuclear war anybody?
Israel reminds me more and more of the NAZIS…………………………………………………………………………….
Says the person advocating a final “solution.”
If nuclear war does break out, I intend to smoke copious amounts of weed, eat some farewell food and watch the nuclear clouds roll by. 😉
Forgive my poetic nature. (Too much pot…) 😉
I’m lighting up a bowl right now. 🙂
I’ll get good and stoned and start working the phones, calling this elected official and that, in an effort to pursaude them that PEACE should be our only option.
Do we vaporize? That has a cosmic feel to it…………………….
Pizza or spicy Enchiladas? hmmmm.
Israel ‘Ready’ to Capitulate to Iran Without US Help: IDF Chief