Axios reported on Monday that Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that Israel has no choice but to respond to Iran’s missile and drone attack, which came in retaliation for Israel’s bombing of Iran’s consulate in Damascus.
Gallant and Austin spoke on Sunday after President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US would not support an Israeli attack on Iran. The US is trying to portray the Iranian attack as a victory for Israel since most of the drones and missiles were intercepted with the help of the US, the UK, and Jordan, although some missiles got through and damaged an Israeli airbase.
But the US is also reaffirming that it will continue to defend Israel if there is another escalation. According to the Pentagon, Austin told Gallant that the US “does not seek escalation,” but he added that the US will “continue to defend Israel.”
Israeli TV reported on Monday that the Israeli War Cabinet convened again and agreed to respond to the Iranian attack “clearly and forcefully,” but there are no details on what the response would look like. The report said the attack would be designed to send the message that Israel will “not allow an attack of that magnitude against it to pass without a reaction.”
Israel has a long history of carrying out covert attacks inside Iran, including assassinations, sabotage attacks on energy infrastructure, and small drone attacks. If Israel wants to launch a more significant attack on Iranian territory, such as carrying out airstrikes, it would likely need support from the US.
Israel also has a history of killing Iranians in Syria and could potentially opt to do that again. The bombing of the Iranian consulate marked a huge escalation since it targeted a diplomatic facility and killed a senior Quds Force commander and six other members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iran is usually very restrained in its responses to Israeli attacks if it responds at all, but the consulate bombing clearly crossed a red line. The Iranian attack on Israel didn’t kill anyone but did injure a seven-year-old Bedouin girl in the Negev.
The rest of the world has no choice but to respond to the criminal regime in Israel. From bombing embassies to genocide of those helpless in its power, they are monsters. They must be dealt with, just as were Pol Pot and the crazed killers in Rwanda.
The ignorance of the public makes all this nonsense possible.
MSM makes sure the public is ignorant. Hospital and Ambulances are protected, Israel bombs and kills the WHOLE MEDICAL system and we have no condemnation of that big WAR CRIME. There is not a word from our deranged president or anyone in government. Sanitized news is all most people get.
Even the Nazis did not bomb hospitals, ambulances, doctors, and Medics. The red cross on the roof was respected, as far as I know.
Shocking that the Zionists have exposed them selves as worse more bloodthirsty than the Nazis!!!!! Their talking of erasing the children should have given it away that they’re breaking new ground in viscousness by targeting kids. Too bad no one but the Yemenis have reacted!!
The monsters are Hamas,Hezbollah, and those that support them.
Even after 32,000+ dead Palestinians? I’d say guess again.
Hamas sacrificed these people by starting a war,and then retreating among them.Blame Hamas.
Everyone blames you and will for eternity.
HAHAHAHA-
Hamas made the decision to attack Israel. Israel made the decision to respond by conducting a genocide. Blame Hamas for their attack on Israel. Blame Israel on their genocidal response. Quite simple.
Again,what would have been Israel’s correct response?
Israel’s correct response would have been to say “yeah, we hit your embassy, which was inexcusable, and you gave us a gentle slap back, which was understandable. How about we both knock it the f*ck off and let bygones be bygones?”
He’s talking about Israel’s response to Oct 7th. Notice “would have been”. They haven’t responded to Iran’s retaliation as of yet.
What, in your opinion,was the correct response on the part of Israel, to Oct 7? Attacking an embassy full of people supervising attacks on Israel was totally just.
Oh ok – so attacking and killing occupants of Israel diplomatic facilities is now totally just? Got it!
The correct response would have been to kill as many of the attackers as possible, then refer the others, and their leaders, to the ICC.
But oh, wait, the Israeli regime doesn’t recognize the ICC, does it? It apparently isn’t interested in justice. It prefers revenge.
Unfortunately for it, any operations it undertakes within Palestine as defined in UNR 181 are under ICC jurisdiction. I wouldn’t want to be and IDF trooper committing war crimes in Palestine.
Fire Netanyahu, court-martial the military that apparently was standing down while the Gazans fled Gaza, fire those intel officials who had warnings about a possible imminent attack, bring charges against the idiots who changed the location of that festival to where they were sitting ducks for the Gazan break-out.
Sorry but I don’t call 60 tons of explosives delivered by over 300 cruise and ballistic missiles and UAVs a “gentle slap”. The fact that Israel and other nations were able to neutralize them does not make it less egregious. Their intent was to cause massive damage and casualties
It is a gentle slap, compared to what they’ll get if they don’t shut up and sit down.
Again, NOT FUCKING GENOCIDE!
I agree-release all hostages,send Hamas terrorists to someplace far way,and build a peace.
No, you fucking don’t. And to prove it you put conditions on how the genocide can be stopped meaning there are conditions for genocide to be acceptable.
What about a rational response instead the hysterical response? Learn from the Iranians, that was a thoughtful responsible superb response without killing anyone and they still left a message the hysterical Zionists can understand.
Israel’s correct response to October 7th should have been direct negotiations with Hamas and the PA to:
1. Agree to Hamas’ standing offer for a ten year cease fire,
2. Release of all Israeli prisoners held by Hamas and all Palestinian prisoners held by Israel,
3. Evacuation of all the settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem
4. Complete Palestinian sovereignty over the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza,
5. Automatic international sanctions on Israel, Hamas or any military group that violates the ceasefire,
6. A stern warning to Hamas and the other militant groups that Israel would respond to any violation of the ten year cease fire with massive military force,
7. Automatic international sanctions against Israel if Israel takes any military action in Gaza, the West Bank or East Jerusalem unless the UN Security Council declares that Hamas or another Palestinian group violated the ceasefire
8. Continued negotiations during the cease fire aimed at trust building initiatives leading to a permanent settlement or an extension of the 10 year ceasefire.
Israel’s military campaign in Gaza failed and left Israel in a worse situation than it was on October 8th. A diplomatic solution with Hamas would have been less macho, but more effective and many people including the so-called hostages and several hundred Israeli soldiers who have been killed in Gaza would now be alive.
Agree to a two-State solution and stop killing people and stealing their land.
Go after Hamas, not after families living in Gaza.
Compare the hysterical, irrational, incompetent IDF Zionist response against unarmed Palestinians, mostly women and children with the rational and competent military and diplomatic Iranian response against the Israelis without killing a single Israeli-Zionist.
The IDF killed more Israelis including hostages than Hamas did Oct. 7. That must be the reason why there is no investigation, no accountability.
Jake, you are IGNORANCE on legs.
I’m not a fan of Hamas or Hezbollah. And I’d say I’m pretty adverse to political islam in general. Doesn’t mix well in my opinion. Know of no counterexample either. But compared to Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah are easy to defend as shining examples of humanitarianism, reason and reasonableness. This isn’t the accomplishment of Hamas or Hezbollah, but of Israel alone.
And I would say that supporting and cheering on genocide as you do, makes you a moral monster. So I cannot help but pity you, for to do so bears witness of a diseased soul.
HA-in Gaza,Gays are tossed off of buildings, and there is no dissent allowed.In Israel gay people walk the streets openly,and there are numerous political parties and debates.
So, it’s gays being thrown off buildings and no dissent allowed as Pig Shit’s latest excuses for genocide.
Sounds like in the mind of the diseased soul, killing children
Is no worse than killing gays innocent or guilty. I wonder where he lives if the penalties comport with his twisted sense of justice. I think he is far more likely to be gay, than a parent. But he sure is one sick dude!!!!!
Well in Gaza there are no more buildings. Israel murders civilians: unarmed men, women and children. They murder babies. They murder muslims and christians. Shoot the occasional inconvenient Jew too. If they’d spare gays that would be terribly nice of them I guess. Don’t think so. What I’m thinking is that if the imaginary straws you’re trying to grasp seem real to you, that would be really sad.
No, those like you who support genocide are the monsters.
Oh right, right, right … 40 beheaded babies, mass rape, … human shields, throwing people from roofs, ….
correct.
Sure and those Iraqis threw all those babies out of incubators in Kuwait, because those incubators were such a hot item for resale. lol
Yeah, that one came up while I was over there for the Big Show. I was pretty skeptical.
My impression was that most of the troops didn’t really buy the propaganda, although civilians may have. We all knew were were working for Aramco. I remember one guy who was pissed that there was no electrical outlet for his razor carrying on for about 15 minutes about how he suspected the Emir of Kuwait didn’t have such problems while lounging on the French Riviera waiting for us to take his stuff back from him.
But if we are comparing monsters, they, once again, pale in comparison to Israel who is conducting a genocide. Oh, and those that support them.
Wars, you always make my day! Always short, sweet and directly to the point, with great efficiency.
Hi Jake, you always make my day but I sometimes feel compelled to ask, is it really difficult putting your head up your ass?! ;- /
😉
As with so many other skill challenges, it comes down to this:
Practice, practice, practice!
Yeah their killing of the children is horrific, but the Israelis are outdoing them on killing kids.
So, the US won’t support an Israel attack on Iran that would undoubtedly cause an escalation, but they’ll defend them if they cause an escalation. That’ll teach them.
Maybe Bided asked Netanyahu to please, pretty please hold off until after his election.
spin spin spin
it keeps going faster
the bs
the insanity
double standards mating with hypocrisy
and begotten is a what we got
if your not with us
your with da terrorists
and dont you forget it
cause it goes back
back
a long ass way back
to a people
we call red
Like earlier after the WCK murders: Allow the humanitarian supplies or there will be consequences … our support is ironclad.
And when they respond forcefully to your next forceful response?
Remind me: is the eye for an eye an Old or New Testament lesson …?
It’s from Rabbi Hammurabi. And, yea, I know it’s from Old too.
I often wonder how the Israelis are God’s Chosen People…. Do you ever wonder, if he regrets it??…!
except he didn’t actually choose them.
they only pretend that he did.
Didn’t he punish them, cast them out? Was God antisemitic? Lol
God’s chosen are the believers.
Israelis have no choice but to be assholes. Fixed.
What’s the over/under on Netanyahu shooting himself in a bunker?
The press corpse has already gone well out of its way to lay the genocide directly at his feet, as though 75% of the Israeli public think that the IDF isn’t using enough force in Gaza.
I know. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t an egomaniacal, power hungry POS.
Adolf had more balls.
His son is already in Miami….I am sure he has a spare couch
Israel must protect their God given right to bomb embassies.
The people of Israel know well all the historical times when captivity and exile were imposed upon them. Let Hamas release all hostages and move towards peace,,or suffer the consequences.
Yes, tell us what you really mean! Pro genocide, pro collective punishment, until they’re all gone, or they submit themselves as forever incarcerated! Nice to see you being honest.
The Hamas generous peace offer has been on the Table for a long while. A lasting and secure peace based on 242 borders.
242 is better than 181 and much better than the Algerian outcome.
Likud can‘t accept 242 because its 1977 charter defines Israel as from the river to the sea. Likud offers Israelis only insecurity and misery.
Israel could be the Singapore of the Levant.
The people of Israel know well all the historical times when captivity and exile were imposed upon them.
A new entry into the top ten reasons Israel can conduct a genocide.
So the “US will not support Israeli attack on Iran” is a LIE. Of course they are going to support the attack, the USA is supplying the weapons, man power and money, plus they said they would defend Israel. Americans know that Biden is LYING! Do NOT vote for any Republican or Democrats, who are NOT serving our Republic, but bowing to Israel, they are TRAITORS!
Many Americans know nothing of US foreign policy. They aren’t against it nor for it; they’re oblivious.
Ask a pro-free stuff Democrat; they know nothing of foreign policy.
Supposedly no one was killed on the air base, but I’m sure there will be some announcement in a day or two of casualties from an undefined “training exercise”.
There were rapes, mutilations, babies beheaded…..wait, wrong propaganda folder. Let’s see, “Irans unprovoked attack” folder, ok…..
On the radio, the guy was saying Hamas regularly rapes both male and female hostages, which is obviously false.
If it is false,then offer to take their places.
Funny. I doubt many even have survived. But it’s apparent that hostages were treated well by the Palestinians. However, they’re probably starving now, along with the rest of the population.
Do you think these things are a joke? They happened.
Bullshit. Israels own newspaper reported the deaths on Oct 7th. There were no beheaded babies. And rapes happen in every war, by both sides. The propaganda movie that was played for handpicked reporters was pretty much debunked on every account.
Israel is a liars paradise…do not forget that they employed the Hannibal Directive against their own citizens on October 7th. No rapes, No beheadings, but Israel looking for an opportunity to sew chaos and mass murder…
I think there were rapes, there always is. Just not the systematic rapes the Israeli propaganda machine was spewing.
Where is the proof. Yes there were elements of other armed groups and armed civilians who also went over to Israel during oct7 but is real hasn’t been able to provide evidence for a single sa
“By deception we do war”
Their official motto=”we lie”
No they didn’t happen. That’s why all of u made up all the easily debunked fake evidence
I would predict that Israel will attack Iran directly in the next round of escalation. The size of the Iranian attack is such that Israel can not restore its “deterrence” by merely bombing Iranian assets in Syria or something similar.
Israel has limited capability to launch a major air offensive in Iran without massive US support. However, it should be able to make some air attacks inside Iran if it wants to.
The problem for an air attack is Iran’s air defenses which are quite good, if not up to Russian capability. It’s quite possible that Israel will lose aircraft and pilots.
Israel also has the capability to fire missiles at Iran. It doesn’t have that many missiles which can reach Iran, however, and those are reserved for Israel’s nuclear arsenal, which means if it uses a conventional warhead on the missiles used to attack Iran, then it has that many fewer in case it has to go nuclear in the future. If it uses a nuclear warhead on one or more missiles to hit Iran, then all bets are off and in the classic phase: “The SHTF”.
Israel could conceivably launch a missile attack with conventional warheads solely from however many of its five Dolphin-class submarines are at sea. This would eliminate the probability of its losing aircraft, and would demonstrate its second-strike capability. I would give this option a high probability of it being Israel’s most likely response.
The other problem for an Israeli attack is that Iran will retaliate even more heavily than the recent mostly performative attack, whether Israel’s warheads are conventional or nuclear. But of course this is entirely the point: to enable Israel to start a wider war (which it has essentially already done.)
The other probability is that Israel will invade Lebanon since this is and has been a primary goal since the 2006 debacle. Iran showed Israel with its strike that Israel can’t afford to endure an enormous nummber of missile hits which Hezbollah can provide. So Israel has to take on Hezbollah first before suffering Iran’s missile retaliations.
The problem for Israel there, as I’ve said for 16 years, is that if Israel invades Lebanon, they will be subjected to the same Hezbollah barrage as if Israel or the US attacked Iran. This is a “rock and a hard place” problem that can only be solved with US involvement in the Lebanon invasion – OR a US attack on Iran on behalf of Israel. And the latter is likely to provoke a full-scale Hezbollah attack on Israel, so that will require US intervention anyway.
Let there be no doubt that whatever the Biden White House says about “not supporting an Israel retaliation” is completely meaningless. The US and Israel has planned this wider war and the US will be involved no matter what Israel decides to do.
There is no such thing as “Israel dragging the US” into this war. The US is a full partner in it.
What will Saudi Arabia and Turkey do?
Well, personally I don’t know. I suspect they will try to stay out of it.
However, Scott Ritter and others believes Erdogan may get involved because he has a desire and the nominal position to be the leader of the Muslim world in the Middle East. So far he’s being upstaged by Hamas and Iran.
On the other hand, Turkey has economic ties with Israel which he might not like to see disruped. On the third hand, if there is a war between Israel/US and Iran, those ties may well be disrupted anyway.
Saudi Arabia is very vulnerable, both to Israel and Iran. So I suspect they will try to stay out of it, if the population allows it.
Jordan may be in trouble. If it assists Israel and the US again, the king may well be overthrown by the population, many of whom are Palestinian.
Egypt is in a similar position. It has totally beholden to the US for aid, on the one hand, and on the other it’s military is sympathetic to the Palestinians, as is the population. I suspect they will try to stay out of it, but who knows?
Once this wider war kicks off, there may be large structural changes in the Middle East before it ends.
Egyptian military IS NOT sympathetic to the Palestinians. If it were Mubarak and sisi couldn’t do what they do for all these years. The officer class as a whole is beholden to the west. Privates and nco do not overthrow military run governments.
The problem for an air attack is Iran’s air defenses which are quite
good, if not up to Russian capability. It’s quite possible that Israel
will lose aircraft and pilots.
And if that’s the case then we’ll see the corporate media complaining that Iran has conducted an unprovoked attack on Israeli aircraft.
They lost their arsenal in Ukraine and Gaza. Their bases will be overrun and blown to bits by Iran. Russia will directly help them with every type of military resources it can provide. Us can’t do ….
I have no choice but to push the button.
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So good. “Ok, we killed them. But they were terrorists.” Said the terrorists.
I’ve just posted a new article on my Substack quoting the post I made below and filling in some important details not covered in my post.
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“Israeli TV reports that Israel’s War Cabinet has decided it will attack Iran.”
Who’d a thunk it?
If Israel can’t restrain its testosterone and responds significantly,
Iran will counterattack without warning—and many Israelis will die.
Then having shown no ability to curtail itself, Israel will use nukes.
This whole episode shows that what really chafes Israel (and USA) is that they can no longer act with impunity—Psychologically it is impossible to accept that you are no longer “alpha”.
Spot on!
You want to understand Israeli foreign policy, watch a John Wick movie. Disproportionate response is key. It isn’t a new thing, Golda Meir I believe said something like 1000 Arabs for one Jewish fingernail.
Hasta La Vista Baby (ISRAHELL)! Lol!
The Iranians kept their calm and responded intelligently and rationally and very successful. Now if the irrational, hysterical Israeli Zionists and American and UK neo-Nazis got the message is another question.
They tend to be irrational, ruthless, hysterical and stupid killers, and respond with dropping bombs to kill and destroy. That is all they know.
Poor Israel has no choice. It is always forced to do things that doesn’t wish to do.
The present time just started for Israel yet again…!
It almost sounds from the headline that Israel is telling the US that **IT** has to attack Iran.
This will be costly for the economy of my country and people. Compared to the slaughter of 10s of thousands of kids being conducted in full view of the world it is nothing. So, if a war is the price for stopping this genocide then it is what it is. I saw a little one (probably a 4 year old) pleading for God’s help. A 4 year old….
Whatever happens Israel will not come out of it stronger and/or the same as before.
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death’s construction
In the fields, the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh lord, yeah!
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah!
Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where their bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing, spreads his wings
Oh lord, yeah!
The Iranian drone incursion was the retaliation.
The Iranians have been carrying out overt attacks on Israel for years via their bought and paid for proxies Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraqi Shiite militias and more recently the Houthis. To pretend that Israel escalated by killing a key architect of these attacks (including Oct 7)on Israel is pure BS
Report: Israel Tells US It Has No Choice But To Capitulate to Iran