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Iran and its proxies no match for Israel

As Israel prepares to mark the 1 year anniversary of the horrific Hamas-triggered attacks of October 7, which killed 1,139 people and saw another 252 abducted, retaliatory attacks continue over Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and soon to be, Iran.

The destruction and devastation since that day, with a death toll well surpassing 42,000 has been unprecedented. Israel on the weekend continued its year-old intensified bombing campaign taking lives, and causing unbelievable injuries to hundreds of thousands of people, mostly women and children, and massive displacement of millions.

In the shadows, the Israeli government is now contemplating an attack on Iran which could involve the country’s oil supplies or its nuclear facilities. Former U.S. President Donald Trump has urged Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear plants. Iran has asserted that if their country is attacked there were will be a response.

The situation in the MIddle East is unprecedented with the region embroiled in all-out hostilities. Israel says it is at war, however its enormous U.S.-supplied military capabilities, including fleets of hundreds of F-16 and F-35 warplanes is no match for the unsophisticated, largely useless rockets, that Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are firing at Israel.

The international community has been rendered impotent in its calls for a ceasefire. The United Nations Security Council, charged with keeping international peace has been deterred on three occasions of demanding a ceasefire in Gaza by the United States which continues to feed the Israeli military with arms and munitions to continue wreaking its death and destruction. President Joe Biden has been humiliated by the Israeli leadership as his feeble calls for a ceasefire, and notation that Israel was being ‘a little over the top’ – after the death toll in Gaza topped 29,000, has been totally ignored.

U.S. spokespeople, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, have maintained throughout they are in contact with their Israeli counterparts, yet whenever a major development occurs they maintain they knew nothing of it in advance.

While bombs have rained over several densely populated areas, principally Gaza, and more recently Lebanon, people have been left to fend for themselves. No Iron Dome, no air-raid sirens, no bomb shelters – often they have been targeted in schools and hospitals where they have sought refuge.

Yet when Iran launched 180 missiles towards Israel on Tuesday of this week, in a widely-anticipated retaliation for a number of assassinations of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian officials, the U.S. leapt to Israel’s defense.

On Friday Austin told reporters, Iran launched an “outrageous missile attack against Israel, and you saw once more that the U.S. came to their defense and helped Israel defend itself.”

“We condemn this brazen attack by Iran. We’ve been in close conversation with our Israeli counterparts about defending against this kind of attack, and we’ll stay in close coordination with them over the coming days,” the U.S. defense secretary said.

Iran and its proxies no match for Israel

“During the attack, the U.S. military coordinated closely with the Israeli Defense Forces to help defend Israel,” Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Tuesday.

Two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the USS Cole and USS Bulkeley, both deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean, fired a dozen interceptors at incoming Iranian ballistic missiles to help defend Israel.

The attack, which caused “minimal damage,” and no injuries let alone deaths, proved again the horrendous mismatch between the firepower of Israel, backed by the United States, against a collective of countries that are ill-equipped, and now in large part have had all their leaders assassinated, and the populations within their countries ‘terrorized’ for all but a year.

“The Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin communicated with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at least twice today, both before the attack and during the attack,” Ryder said.

“He reaffirmed the United States ironclad commitment to the defense of Israel and underscored that the U.S. remains well-postured throughout the Middle East region to protect U.S. forces and defend Israel in the face of threats from Iran and Iran-backed terrorist organizations,” Ryder said.

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