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Daily reports of weapons build-ups and military exercises in Iran and among Iran’s clients Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas expose the contours of their war plans.
Syria and Iran have armed Hizbullah with some 40,000 missiles and rockets, including hundreds of Scud missiles and guided surface-to-surface solid fuel M600 missiles with a 250 km range and. This week Hizbullah threatened to attack Israel with non-conventional weapons. Syria itself has a formidable chemical and biological arsenal as well as a massive artillery and missile force at its disposal.
As for Hamas, since Operation Cast Lead Iran’s Palestinian proxy Hamas has expanded its own missile arsenal. Today it reportedly has projectiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv and beyond.
As for Iran, as its seemingly endless military exercises make clear, the mullocracy has the capacity to use conventional weapons to imperil global oil shipments from the Persian Gulf. So too, this week’s report that Osama Bin Laden may have decamped to Iran in 2003 merely served to underline Iran’s ability to utilize jihadist terror forces throughout the world.
From the open preparations for war that Iran and its clients have undertaken, it is clear that if they initiate the next round of fighting they will fight a four front war against Israel. That war will be dominated by missile attacks against the entire country aimed at breaking the will of the Israeli people while forcing the IDF to divert vital resources away from Israel’s primary target — Iran’s nuclear installations — to contend with Iran’s proxies’ missile stores.
As they consider Israel’s options going forward, Israel’s political and military leaders have to take two considerations into account. First, the side that initiates the conflict will be the side that controls the battle space. And second, there is a real possibility that the Obama administration will refuse to resupply Israel with vital weapons systems in the course of the war. The fact that Israel will be roundly condemned by the UN and its component parts is a certainty regardless of who initiates the conflict and therefore is irrelevant for operational planning.
Armed with these understandings, it is apparent that Israeli contingency plans for war must have limited goals and should be guided by the overarching aim of beginning and ending the war quickly. Luckily, Israel excels at limited, swift campaigns.
Responding to one of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s recent threats, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman promised last month that if Assad attacks Israel, Israel will bring down his regime. While bringing about the utter defeat of Iran’s regional proxies is a reasonable goal, it cannot be Israel’s goal in the coming war.
In the coming war, Israel will have only one goal: to destroy or seriously damage Iran’s nuclear installations. Every resource turned against Iran’s proxies must be aimed at facilitating that goal. That is, the only thing Israel should seek to accomplish in contending with Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas is to prevent them from diverting Israeli resources away from attacking Iran’s nuclear installations.
This means that Israel must launch a preemptive strike against Hizbullah’s missiles and missile launchers, Syria’s missiles, artillery and launchers, and Hamas’s missiles and launchers. As for their short-range rockets, Israel should do its best to intercept them and otherwise hunker down to weather the storm of Katyushas and Qassams. Life of the homefront won’t be easy. But it won’t be impossible either, as we saw in 2006.
Almost every assessment of a possible Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear installations has assumed that Israel will use its Air Force to strike. All that can be said of that analysis is that, just as there is more than one way to skin a cat, so there is more than one way to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations. An Israeli strike should utilize all of them to keep the Iranians off balance and on the defensive.
These are dangerous times. Iran, which seeks to position itself as a regional superpower, has been emboldened by the Obama administration’s abdication of US global leadership. Only Israel can prevent Iran from endangering the world. But time is of the essence.
It might be that the Arabs’ calculations are right. By any measure, Haifa and Jaffa are not Jewish cities; Jews controlled those territories in antiquity only for a very short time. By any measure, Schem and Hebron are Jewish towns: we bought them, conquered them, settled them, had them as our major cities, and have a full-fledged religious right to them. Therefore, if Jews abandoned Schem and Hebron, the Arabs find it completely plausible that Zionists would eventually abandon Haifa and Jaffa. And they are right—Jews keep abandoning those places: Akko is now an Arab town, and Jaffa is becoming one.
So when Gazans shell Israel, they act neither cowardly, nor stupidly, but bravely, shrewdly, and—from their point of view—righteously.
Arabs are terrorists. But when Arabs kill Jewish civilians, they act normally—as any normal person does to his hated enemy. Jewish civilians serve in the army, pay taxes which support the army, vote for the governments which keep the territories under “occupation,” and send their sons and daughters to fight the Arabs. Palestinian terrorists don’t seek to annihilate the Jews; that’s a task for Arab mobs and armies. The terrorists seek rational political ends, and employ violence only to achieve those ends. Such violence is very economical by the standards of warfare. Such violence is extremely efficient in political terms: polls show Israeli support for Palestinian statehood growing after major terrorist acts.
Of course Islam is a perversion. Of course Arabs are wild, primitive, and make worse neighbors than The Black Plague.
Of course the country is ours and we must cleanse it of Arabs by whatever means necessary.
But the Arab example offers Jews a valuable insight into what “normalcy” really is.
As soon as we are done kicking Obama’s ass, we’re going to kick his ass too!
May God’s warriors successfully kick all their asses and send them where they belong!
This approach works for the muslims.
Construction freeze turns indefinite!! Confirming my suspicions, Abbas said that the US promised him “no provocations” by Jews during the indirect talks. That could only refer to continued settlement freeze.
Is it so hard to understand that they want Tel Aviv?
My dream: CRAZY DON’T FUCK WITH ME : israel!!
‘PIIGS’‘
Portugal
Italy
Ireland
Greece
Spain
All other countries are potential targets!
Israel should announce retributive targets;
were any in the EU
to impose restrictive sanctions on Israel or attempt to
interfere against us in any way physically.
This just before we Nuke Syria Lebanon and Egypt Mecca and Medina and just after we nuke Iran.
If Israel attacks Iran, the price of oil will triple and the world will explode in Jew hatred.
Israel will be a universal scapegoat and pariah.
Knowing that, Israel may as well totally annihilate Hezbollah and Fatah and Hamas.
You can’t be hated more than the maximum.