October 27, 2024
No Ring of Fire and No Endorsements
By Clarice Feldman
Friday and Saturday, the Israeli air force gelded Iran, diminishing the Mullahcracy’s sway and putting paid to the Russian-supplied defense systems. At the same time, the refusal of the owners of the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post to do the expected and endorse Kamala Harris for President has roiled their partisan activist staffs. Harris angered her rally crowd by promising a Beyoncé concert and delivering just a Beyoncé abortion speech at the same time Trump had an engaging three-hour conversation with Joe Rogan.
Iran
First accounts of the Israeli bombing on Friday night were sketchy but as time progressed, we are getting a clearer picture of what is happening. Once again we turn to Hussain Abdul-Hussain of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy for clarification.
@hahussain
My take on Israel retaliation air strike on Iran: Only 13 months ago, it was believed that #Israel did not have the capacity to threaten #Iran nuclear sites, that if Israel tried, it risked unleashing a devastating response from Iranian proxies -- Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis and militias in Syria and Iraq. On 10/26, Israel: 1- Had its fighter jets spend hours in Iranian airspace, striking once and twice, at will, showing that Israel's air force was prepared to wage war, 1,500 miles away from home. Whether Israel took out Iranian air defenses or not is irrelevant since the Jewish state struck with impunity and with Iran unable to ward off the attack. 2- Iran had no ability to respond in real time. With its inability to engage Israeli air force in its air space or scare it away, Iran's only response was to launch missiles on Israel. Even this Iranian response did not come. An educated guess: Moving the big missiles into position to strike would have given away their storage location and allowed Israel to hit the launchers with the missiles still on them. 3- Iranian ring of fire is now a relic of the past. With Nasrallah and Sinwar swimming with the fish, all Hezbollah could muster was its usual daily 150 rockets and three to five drones, the drones that hit Bibi's house but fail to break its window. All those who expected a knockout Israeli blow might have been disappointed. But Israel is taking on a country eight times its size at a distance of 1,500 miles. Israel showed Iran that if it comes for a second round, the 2,000 lb bunker busters can make of Fordow what it made of Nasrallah and Safieddine. Of course, don't expect Iran to say anything other than "we did not even suffer a scrape."Israel reportedly destroyed all the radars of Russian S-400 and S-300 systems, leaving Iran’s entire airspace blinded and in a second onslaught on Saturday it struck near Shiraz, Isfahan, Mashhad and in the northern region near Kurdistan.
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