President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to discuss Israel’s plans to attack Iran in retaliation for the Iranian missile barrage fired at Israel last week.
Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel in response to multiple Israeli escalations, including the assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. Israeli officials told Axios that Israel’s retaliation would likely involve airstrikes on Iranian military sites coupled with covert operations similar to the Haniyeh assassination.
NBC News reported on Tuesday that the US was considering supporting Israel’s attack with direct airstrikes of its own, although US officials said intelligence support was more likely. The US has also committed to defending Israel from any Iranian response.
The White House readout of Biden and Harris’s call with Netanyahu said Biden “affirmed his ironclad commitment to Israel’s security” and “condemned unequivocally Iran’s ballistic missile attack against Israel on October 1.”
According to Axios, Netanyahu will meet with his security cabinet on Thursday to get approval for military action in Iran, which Israeli officials believe will likely lead to full-blown war. Iran has vowed it would respond to any Israeli attack.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was due to visit Washington on Wednesday, but his trip was postponed. According to Israeli media, Netanyahu wanted to speak with Biden and get approval from the security cabinet to attack Iran before Gallant’s trip.
Gallant issued a threat to Iran on Wednesday, saying, “The Iranian attack was aggressive but inaccurate. In contrast, our attack will be deadly, pinpoint accurate, and most importantly, surprising — they will not know what happened or how it happened. They will just see the results.”
"which Israeli officials believe will likely lead to full-blown war."
Duh! Well, now that the Israelis have said it, as I've said it, can we put aside the notion that the next Iran attack will NOT start an "all-in" war? Because I still have people commenting on my Substack that "we're not at that step yet" – based on what?
"they will not know what happened or how it happened."
That statement indicates to me that Israel may be planning to use its submarine fleet of 5 Dolphin-Class submarines armed with cruise missiles – allegedly capable of using nuclear warheads as well as conventional munitions. I covered this possibility in my "Correlation of Forces and Methods" article on Substack.
The use of submarines would alleviate some of the problems of using either Israeli Jericho missiles or Israeli fighter-bombers to do a strike on Iran.
Paper Tigering…!
Godspeed, Iran
https://youtu.be/TMHCw3RqulY?feature=shared
Well, very interesting..hmm….:)
Trevor Moore was hilarious. Unfortunately, he died 3 years ago.
https://youtu.be/0-Lvv1f5Qu4?feature=shared
Ben Gvir was forced to draw a gun on his own settlers after they threatened to kill him…
The colony is falling apart.
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1843943201771761857
I somehow enjoy that Ben Gvir-and-Ben-Taketh-Away carries a "piece" when he rolls into 'friendly' territory. Something so Mafioso about it.
Very much acting like a cheap thug in a movie. Illuminating that this hoodlum is a cabinet minister.
I envision a Tarantino-esque scene with a lot of guns drawn and profanity and Benny yelling “Settlers be cool ! Settlers, be cool !”
;-}
Two intellectually inadequate politicians and one war criminal are planning a new war crime.
The Strait of Hormuz?? US naval base in Bahrain?? The price of oil!
The poor soldiers sitting as (planned) sitting ducks in Iraq and Syria?
I remember the original chant from 1991.
Now it's "No, blood for oil !!"
Or, "Send George Bush, send Dan Quayle, send Neil Bush, when he gets out of jail".
https://x.com/i/status/1844182044680782121
The man is seriously damaged.
What dictator would only seek parts of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia?
We're discussing the Greater Israel Project.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815
I've no idea why Simplicius is surprised. This is the known "Greater Israel" the crazies have wanted since the start of the Israel project and everyone knows Smoteich is one of those crazies.
Simplicius occasionally comes across as a complete idiot.
One day Netanyahu threatens to turn Lebanon into Gaza and the next day he has his ass kissed by Biden and Harris who ok his intent to retaliate for an "inaccurate" justified retaliatory attack by Iran. So, that would be enabling one genocide while saying nothing of a threat of a second genocide while promising an "ironclad commitment" to start a regional war that will destroy our economy.
Time for an avalanche of secessions.
Our citizenry is the product of thirteen (at least) years of govt indoctrination in their childhood and a lifetime marination in mainstream pacified entertainment/news, now served to them by personal minders (phones, soon to be AI enabled to serve even better) they cannot stand to live without for more than two minutes.
In other words, no way!
Impeach the SOB.
Let us start with Bushy Boi', the F###### war CRIMINAL and liar!!!!
That never works, he should go to hell if there is one.
When mainstream "reporters" cover this issue, do they even tell their audience that the US is not, in fact, at war with Iran … or Russia … or whatever country our supposed public servants are discussing to attack?? In other words, wtf is going on around here?
If the USA joins in the attack then you will see WW-3 as Russia will let loose full scale. No more trips to MickeyDees or Starbucks or your fav. sports event after that. Did I mention groceries and running water, electricity…
I still haven’t seen any evidence that Putin and friends are THAT stupid and suicidal.
How about evidence that Bush, Clinton, Bush the Jr, Obama, Trump, Biden ARE THAT stupid and suicidal?
From Amconmag :
Pffft, Joltin' Joe doesn't remember THAT.
Or which month he's in.
Kamala Harris.
This was your chance to be a postmodern Vasili Arkhipov.
Your Captain Biden and your Political Officer Netanyahu have agreed to war. You could have been the dissenting vote – publicly determined to NOT launch (a war) and to surface (in the media) and negotiate.
This will follow you into History.
I checked, it is not an article from the Babylon Bee.
Wise to make sure…!
Biden, a demented insane old warmonger and Harris, a know nothing VP and presidential candidate spoke with mad dog Netanyahu about attacking Iran? It leaves one speechless. Who else was present?
Some more gaslighting of a nation already bonkers. They could blow up the planet earth with nuclear bombs in minutes.
To think what kind of a mad house we live in. We may not be around to vote even if we wanted to.
lemon jelly
MORE STORIES FROM HE MAD HOUSE
Governments of Class A war criminals.
Kamala has been "the last person in the room" for the past 46 months: https://x.com/MarkSimoneNY/status/1844219650978259097?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
The stench emanating from DC is overpowering, and manages to increase with each passing day.
It is time for Israel to get its ass in line with peace goals in the region and get off the US tit!!!
Anyone attacks Iran and I’ll sue you all my damn self!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!