Israeli sources told Axios on Thursday that Israeli intelligence suggests Iran is preparing to launch a reprisal attack on Israel from Iraqi territory in the coming days and that it could happen before the November 5 US presidential election.
The Israeli sources said the Iranian attack could involve a large number of drones being fired from Iraq. They said launching it from Iraq through Iranian-allied Shia militias could be an attempt to avoid another round of Israeli airstrikes on Iranian territory.
If another escalation starts from Iraq, US troops in the country and in neighboring Syria could come under attack since the US has vowed to defend Israel. There are also about 100 US troops in Israel as part of a deployment of a THAAD missile defense system.
A US official told Axios that the US doesn’t know if a decision has been made in Iran to attack Israel. Israel launched a series of airstrikes against military targets in Iran on October 26, killing four Iranian soldiers and one civilian. Iran has downplayed the extent of the damage to its air defense systems, saying it’s already been repaired, but Iranian officials are vowing there will be a response.
Brig. Gen. Ali Fadavi, the deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), told Al Mayadeen on Thursday that an Iranian response was “inevitable,” saying that Iran “can target everything the Zionists possess in a single operation.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a threat against Iran on Thursday, saying the Israeli military has “greater freedom of action” in the country than ever before. “The supreme goal I gave to the Israel Defense Forces and the security branches is to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapon,” he said.
Israel’s attack on Iran came in response to the October 1 Iranian missile barrage that targeted military sites in Israel, which came in retaliation for a series of Israeli escalations in the region, including the killing of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, while he was visiting Tehran.
We're listening to "Israeli sources" on Axios now? It's ridiculous. Obviously the intent is to tar Iraq along with Iran, so the US will be justified in attacking Iraq again once the wider war starts.
The Iraqi militias may well intend launching their own large attack on Israel – possibly in coordination with Iran – but Iran is not going to launch its attack FROM Iraq.
And after the second dismal Israeli attack on Iran, Iran is hardly afraid of Israel's ability to attack Iran without using nuclear missiles.
Another probability is that Israel is using this reported Iraq attack to justify a "preemptive"another attack on Iran. Colonel Douglas Macgregor stated that he heard from sources that Israel was planning a follow up attack.
All you can prevent nowadays is your own dismal and humiliation Mr. crime minister…!
The only crime was on Oct 7 2023-the rest is all JUST response.
Vile master race stuff right there
nonsense.
Crime? That was a concentration camp breakout. Everybody that followed this site for years has had ample opportunity to see documented attrocitors Isrsrl comitted with daily regularity over population of occupied Palestinian territorries. Were we shocked by the event? Of course, who does not have a sympathy for people who came to music festival and had their fate alrltered in a blink.
But was anyone surprised? No.
Oppression and cruelty sooner or later generate response.
Crimes by the regime continue unabated. UN Human Righrs Body just recommended to UN General Aasembly to suspend Israel’s membership due to on going violations of international law and failure to abide by ICJ rulings on allowing court investigators into Gaza.
The world is watching. While Israel’s reputation has been tarnished for decades, this time US is allowing its prestige to be damaged. Brinkmanship does not work for the country that has a leading role in global affairs.
Hamas refused to negotiate at Oslo,or any place else. chose the path of rejectionism,which has lead to Oct 7 and its response.
As far as the world"s response,we have countries whose PM sent birthday notes to Hitler and refused to accept any Jewish refugees during WWII,now bitching that Israelis won't take abuse. Fork them.
The only crime was the Nakbha of 1948 that foreshadowed 7Oct.
That, and the killing of Palestinians over a period of 75 years.
Did you know that according to official figures, Israeli soldiers murdered 2300 Palestinian children over the period 2000 to 7Oct.
The majority of those murdered by the IDF are women and children.
For a concise record of what is happening in Gaza, I would like you to read the open letter sent to the Biden administration by 99 medical professionals who volunteered in Gaza hospitals.
Dr. Perlmutter, MD, Jewish doctor from the U.S. documented administering aid to children that had been shot twice. Once in the head, once in the torso. By IDF snipers. He also said that for the first time in his medical career, he held a baby's brain in his hands.
7Oct was an atrocity. The response from the Zionists is bloody genocide, extermination in progress.
If you deny that, you are really in need of help.
The expulsion of some Arab populations in 1948 was harsh and wrongas was the 1929 Hebron pogrom, the 1921 Jaffa pogrom,,as was the expulsion of Jewish people from the Arab world. Israel exists, and the Palestinians must accept it and work out a modus vivendi,not dream of pie in the sky.
Better do more than “suggest”, prove it.
Israeli debt to GDP: 77%.
USA debt to GDP: 122%
Why is the USA sending anything to Israel?
For that matter, why is the USA sending aid to any country? If Americans want to send aid to another country they can use their own money.
Because there are still few years of future Social Security and Medicare money to spend. Of course, already signaling to us that those are “unfunded liabilities”. And that this new “debt” should be privatized! Magic!
Even though our shortfall for 2023 was 1..7 trillion — and much of it was auctioned off on international markoet as US Treasuries — our “Fed” is still issuing about a trilliin in new debt apprix each 100 days.
Let us say our unsold Treasuries were one trillion, — why create 4 trillion worth of debt to cover one trillion shortfall? For that matter, why does Fed create money (with our permission) and then turns around and declares it OUR debt to Fed? A collection of PRIVATELY owned commercial banks?
And than — we pay interest to that debt to the shareholders of those banks. And out of all these constituent entities called “fed”, whose finger exactly is on the keyboard that clicks “one trilliin more”. It is surely not hapless Powell.
Yes, every foreign expenditure should be put to vote. And people voting “yes” should pay the additional tax. Simple.
When congress votes to increase the debt ceiling— it is actually mortgaging our entire future income, no fund iis protected. When we pay our social security money from our pay check, it is money needed to pay interest on debt, no different than any other revenue government collects.
Commingling of private and public funds never brought any society any good.
It is less of a question where the money is going to — but where is the money coming from? And profits from an increase in US debt?
Of course the standard answer is — this is all for you little people and your jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Let us audit the mess, and find out.
“Yes, every foreign expenditure should be put to vote. And people voting “yes” should pay the additional tax. Simple.”
That’ll work for me… and the country!
"Saving Social Security" is easy. Raise or eliminate the cap, which is currently at $118,000, or thereabouts.
But, by golly, to do so would mean that the uber wealthy, who run this country, would have to kick in a little more.
Now, why would a billionaire do something to help the common man, hmmm?
Part of the problem is that people are living longer,which is fine by me.Part of the problem is that the system is beingdrained by SSI,for people who have never contributed anything to the system. Phony disability is a way of life for tens of millions.To a certain extend, having sent our industrial jobs abroad,it is understandable-no jobs for hardworking,unskilled people. N ow the dems are bring tens of millions of useless eaters from abroad,to secure their votes and create the Globalist North American Union-this is the real reason they have used every dirty trick to destroy Trump.
By supporting Israel, the US is trying to prevnt a cornered and outnumbred Isral from using nukes,which would not be very good.
In other words, Israel is using nuclear blackmail.
Izrael denied attacking the USS Liberty until there was irrefutable proof. All governments lie to CYA.
That was half a century ago, and they never denied it; the question was whether it was intentional or accidental.
They do deny it. The denied it then and every step of the way. They only move back their position on it when they’ve been pinned by evidence. They have never told the truth once.
Israel never deny they attack the ship. They inform the US immediately when they realizes the mistake, which was two hours after the first attack.
There is no question that it was accident of war. Why would Israel attack a US ship? What would they gain by such a foolish act? The dumbest answer I ever heard Israel was trying a false flag operation to blame it on Egypt. That is dumb because 1. Israel used planes and boats marked with the star of David and 2 at this point of war Egypt was beaten.
Meanwhile,who killed the 280 Marines in Beirut-Hez?– and its masters.
You need to read up on the history of why the barracks were bombed.
Basically, the reason for the suicide bombing of the barracks was the U.S. support for the Israeli attack on Beirut in 1982.
President Reagan was advised to not have the Marines garrisoned there, that reprisals could be anticipated.
So you support the murder of 280 unarmed innocents. Their guards did not even have ammunition.
US Marines aren’t “innocents.” They’re combat troops and they were put in a combat situation. If they didn’t have ammunition, whoever denied them ammunition should have been court-martialed and punished.
What nonsense. Israel inform the US Embassy of its mistake 2 hours after the first jets attack the Liberty.
Reminds me of Dick Cheney telling the New York Times that Iraq has WMD's (or some shit) and then citing the New York Times to prove his claim.
Which also came from Netanyahu first. Go figure, right?
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/10/29/a-heroic-preference-for-self-destruction-is-taking-hold-in-israel/
Alastair Crooke
A ceasefire is impossible. An exchange of hostages appears likewise as the Palestinians will eventually die because Israel claims they exist.
The Axis of Resistance has superior air defense and offensive missile capabilities. This is a conflict of moderation, with both parties subtly agreeing to avoid 'escalation.'
If conditions persist, the Zionist's pet project (Israel) will cease to exist. There'll be no two-state solution. A few Israelis and Palestinians will remain to farm the lands and might live in harmony, though I've doubts.
Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan may absorb Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank with little dischord from UN members. It's difficult to envision until thousands more die or flee those areas.
Will displaced Israelis emigrate to a dysfunctional western Ukraine? It's as though the circle of time and longing will be resolved for Ashkenazi Jewry?
Europe and the US return $360 billion in Russian assets for relocation considerations.
An innocent thought.
What a bizarre world view. Israelis have a longer life expectancy than your country (US?). Israeli Arabs even have a longer life expectancy than Africa Americans; yet, rather than looking at your own dismal country, you predict Israel's destruction.
From whom? Yahya Sinwar started a war, hoping that Hezbollah and Iran would join in. How's he doing? And the rest of Hamas? Hezbollah – will they answer the call? "It's for you," said Israel. At least Nasrallah was spared a humiliating video.
So that leaves Iran, a feeble, decaying dictatorship that is hated by its own people, which is running out of oil and has a huge drug problem and a declining birth rate…if they pose an existential threat to Israel, we will find out exactly how many nuclear bombs Israel has; is it 100? Or is it 400, as some claim?
“Israelis have a longer life expectancy than your country (US?)”
Maybe they should be sending us welfare checks instead of vice versa, then.
Maybe, but the fairly small amounts involved would do nothing to solve the US healthcare mess. And Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva provides a lot of the generic medications to the US that save money.
The US has the money to solve the health care problems that lower our life expectancy; we just prefer to spend money elsewhere, such as the $450 billion we spend on sports, or the $871 billion we spend on vehicle accidents each year.
Also, the fall of Israel would create a power vacuum that would result in a massive shift in the Middle East away from US influence, no doubt resulting in a huge increase in oil and gas costs that would flatten the US economy, causing trillions of dollars in losses in home values and the stock market.
As for solving the US health care disaster, there are some pretty simple solutions. Germany has had a national health insurance since 1890, and no industrialized nation has such poor access to health care services as we do. We could learn from Israel how to reduce the health care disparities found in our country.
I’m not claiming that ending the welfare checks to the apartheid ethno-supremacist garrison Israeli regime would magically solve health care problems in the US.
I’m just saying that if the residents of the apartheid ethno-supremacist garrison Israeli regime really have such great life span, health care, etc., maybe they don’t need a welfare check from me. Let them pay their own damn bills instead of picking my pocket.
Why don;t you acknowledge that by expelling 99% of their native Jewish populations,Israels enemies practice profound apartheid,whereas Israel does have Muslim and Christians who speak Arabic,with full civil rights.
Just develop Venezuela. Shale is taking off too, outside the US.
The US economy would be fine.
I have no idea what that means or how that is relevant.
The US has other sources of oil is what it means. Venezuela and Canada produce heavy oil. Fracking produces light.
The US chooses to rely on the Middle East. The Middle East needs to sell oil to someone; it can reduce and expand production to game the price, but the market can adjust.
Rigth now,the US exports oil, and is moving to abandon fossil fuel.
BWAHAHAHAHA! Abandon fossil fuel?!
My friend, that will happen when there is no longer any fossil fuel to bring to market.
electrification won't work,but it is still the plan.
We have plenty right here.
My grandfather, an oil field roughneck and brick mason, told my father that for years wells were brought in, noted, then the area made to not reveal them.
He surmised that it was a subterfuge to allow the U.S. to purchase oil from abroad, while reserving or preserving oil here.
The cost of remaining in the MidEast greatly exceeds the cost of fully exiting the region entirely and passing an amendment banning any aid or involvement in the region.
It is unAmerican to be involved in the region, and it should be illegal.
It takes a bit of thinking to see what he is talking about.
A perfect retort!
Which does not answer the man's point.The Israel haters have not bettered humanity,they just destroy.
There are no "Israel haters" among us. I, for one, feel sorry for the Israeli society that has been sucked into the morass by the Zionists.
If the shelling of the U.S.S. Liberty (as well as the machine gunning of survivors in life boats) means anything, the Zionists of the ilk of Netanyahu and Smotrich cannot be trusted to be our friends.
Bibi has mockingly said that our administrations are easy to manipulate.
"as well as the machine gunning of survivors in life boats" That never happen. The Liberty was not sinking. There were no reason to for sailors to get into the life boats. Read the US Navy reports.
"There are no "Israel haters" among us" BS. When readers make comments like "Death to Israel" or "looking for destruction of Israel" for sure they are haters of Israel.
Your upvote count is considerably lower than your comments, Slim.
You and blex should find paid employment in honest, legitimate endeavors other than The Empire.
Upvote? What is this, junior high school? Jeez. Maybe it's because I have a life.
….we will find out exactly how many nuclear bombs Israel has; is it 100? Or is it 400, as some claim……
you really think the Likud wants to commit mass suicide in a Masada 2.0 ?
Its not "we's" business.
If it ignites WWIII, it is our business.
How is that "mass suicide"?
Israel started the war in 1948.
Israel's wealth relies on your tax money.
Israel will kill you if you get in Israel's way. (U.S.S. Liberty, Rachel Corrie)
The incursion by Hamas fighters on 7Oct caused the Zionists to take off the mask and reveal the truth.
The last President to stand up to Israel was President Kennedy.
Harris and Trump (tweedledee and tweedledum) will allow the Zionists to kill more thousands.
Israel was invaded by 5 Arab nations in1948. They started no war.Despite lacking any regular army,and despite being embargoed.,they whipped butt.
Remember the 280 marines that Hez killed-they were present as peacekeepers,as Christians and Moslems were killing each other,and guilty of no crime.
Jake, Israel haters forget that US had a weapon embargo on Israel. The major supplier of weapons to the new nation of Israel was Czechoslovakia. They also don't know that most successful army that opposed Israel was Jordon's. And Jordon took the West Bank and two years later made it part of Jordon, thus killing the Palestinians best change for there own nation.
"Israel started the war in 1948" Nope. The fact are clear that the Arabs armies invaded the new nation of Israel the day it became a nation.
All your statements are absurdly wrong.
1. Israel agreed to the UN partition plan in 1947. The Arabs and the Arab League did not, and they voted to start the war. Clearly, Israel didn't "start" the war by agreeing to a UN plan. Learn some history.
2. Israel has a $560 billion economy, among the top 20 in the world; the US contribution is $3 billion, or less than 1%. Israeli wealth is based on hard work, and advances in medical, computer, and military technology.
3. Yes, Israel will defend itself, although it's amusing to hear moral advice from a country that wiped out an entire people and took their land (Native Americans), imported millions of enslaved people from Africa, and that killed 100,000 women and children in WWII – then dropped nuclear bombs on non-military civilian populations, instantly incinerating 210,000 people. Plus a million people killed in Korea, Vietnam, and the "War on Terror". But you can lecture others?
4. Yes, the attack by Hamas showed that their failed strategies don't work. Just ask Yahya Sinwar. Oh wait, you can't – he's no longer available for comment.
5. Israel is a "major non-NATO ally" of the United States. When it defends itself, it is support US interests.
6. Bobby Kennedy was an enthusiastic supporter of Israel – that is, until he was assassinated by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.
7. Both Harris and Trump recognize that it is in the US interest to have and support allies. Without Israel in the Middle East, Iran (and Russia) would have no restraints and would take over the world oil market, and you would pay $9/gallon for gas (if you could get any). This would crush the US economy, destroy banks, collapse home and stock prices, and lead to massive unemployment. But maybe that's not a problem for you.
And then Bagdad gets blitzed,and everyone looses
Those romanticized days are long gone.
Unfortunately, they will go on and on.Israel with 9 million people,cannot win a multiyear war of attrition.for absorb more that a few thousand casualties.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/01/middleeast/israel-iron-beam-laser-system-intl/index.html
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/06/07/laser-warfare-military-combat-america
https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/14211951/testing-50-kw-lasers-in-weapon-systems
https://www.rtx.com/raytheon/what-we-do/integrated-air-and-missile-defense/lasers
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/directed-energy.html
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/power/article/14207816/high-energy-laser-weapons-move-quickly-from-prototype-to-deployment
https://www.military.com./topics/lasers-and-directed-energy?
https://breakingdefense.com/?s=laser
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/lasers.htm
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule86 Blinding Laser Weapons
Vaporware, pretty much the same as all the previous attempts. The US Navy mounted one on a surface ship for testing and found it essentially unusable. Besides being an energy hog the recharge time between shots was unacceptably long, heat dissipation was unmanageable, aiming was iffy at best, and air turbulence which caused the target to wobble at all would interrupt its destruction. Disabling the 'Iron Beam' system would be trivial, just shoot out the insulators anywhere along the power lines which feed it.
I think we all know how truthful comments from Israeli intelligence are likely to be.
I remember when we at the Basque Antimilitarist Movement issued a new merchanidse back in the 90s: a book called "La Inteligencia Militar" ("Military Intelligence") and it was all blank pages (which is a statement on itself).
Same for "Israeli Intelligence", especially when they're saying nonsense like in this case. If Iran could deploy freely in Iraq, why would they launch drone attacks, which have been already proven to be vulnerable to Zionist anti-aircraft defenses and not just deploy their massive land forces and directly invade/liberate Palestine via Syria or even through that semi-colony that is Jordan, where they would be welcomed as liberators as well?
If Iran is going to strike Israel, which they will, and if Iran had any sense, which they might have, then Iran would make its strike truely devastating. Sounds like a good time to clear out of Israel.
The more devastating Iran's attack on Israel, the more devastating Israel counter attack will be. That does not sound like a good plan to me.
Either way. It is a good time to clear out of Israel.
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