By Triggering Israel, Terrorists Made Peace a Possibility

Iran’s proxies plunged the Middle East back into bloody chaos on October 7, 2023 when 6,000 psychopaths scrambled across the Gazan border into Israel and murdered, maimed, raped, and kidnaped over 2,000 innocent Israeli citizens and visiting foreign nationals. Today Gaza is in ruins and Hamas decimated.

 

Incredibly, after witnessing the utter desolation of Gaza, Iran’s Hezbollah surrogates owned a piece of the action by launching thousands of rockets toward Israeli civilian populations. Today, the upper echelon of Hezbollah military leadership has been killed, and Israel is launching a ground invasion into Lebanon. (READ MORE from Mike Howard: Elon Musk for President?)

Even more incredibly, with Hamas and Hezbollah on their heels, and the Houthis in Israel’s crosshairs, Iran has repeatedly engaged Israel with hundreds of ballistic missiles and vowed to “crush” Israel if they dare even think about any counterstrikes.

Seriously? “Crush” Israel?

With what? The 60 percent enhanced weapons-grade uranium production that Iran has fast-tracked to terrify Western proponents of appeasement? Iran may have enough weapons-grade material to build three nuclear weapons. Given time. 

Neither the Biden/Harris administration nor Israel will tell you, and you won’t learn this from mainstream media, but Israel already has a nuclear capability  —  and has for decades. Conservative estimates credit Israel’s nuclear arsenal with a minimum of over 90 plutonium-based nuclear warheads, with enough plutonium to arm over 200 weapons. It’s not so much a secret —  as a taboo topic. 

Of course, all the nuclear weapons in the world aren’t much of a threat without a delivery system, a system like Israel’s squadrons of U.S.-made F-15s (with a range of over 3,500 kilometers), F-16s (1,600 kilometers), and F-35 stealth aircraft (2,200 kilometers)  —  all capable of in-air refueling, and all capable of nuclear roles.

Or systems such as Israel’s Jericho II nuclear-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missiles (1,500 kilometer range) or their Jericho IIIs (4,000 kilometer range). Or like Israel’s half-dozen Dolphin-class submarines, each capable of launching 16 nuclear-tipped 200 kiloton cruise missiles literally anywhere in the Middle East. The German-built Dolphin-class diesel-electric subs guarantee Israel a second-strike retaliatory capability, no matter what happens to their homeland.

With Hamas defanged and Gaza in rubble, with Hezbollah degraded and leaderless and Lebanon at risk of ground pacification, the Houthis can be dismissed as so many irritating gnats. Suddenly, the risk of a three-front war by Iran’s proxy “warriors” is gone. Iran’s “buffer” of useful idiots has evaporated into battlefield smoke.

Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei is in hiding, and his “Islamic Revolutionary Guard” is disavowing any desire for an expansion of hostilities. Yeah, right. I suspect that it is too late for that. Way too late. 

Israel Turning Toward Iran

Israel is now prioritizing pre-selected targets for the coup de grâce: Iran’s oil fields, launch sites, missile production, and nuclear “research” centers. The oil fields, launch sites, and missile production sites are vulnerable. Blazing infernos waiting to happen. The “research” centers are hardened sites dug into mountainsides and housed in vast underground facilities  —  but nothing that a few well-placed “bunker-busters” can’t handle. Or if worse comes to worse? A couple of well-placed Jericho missiles.

If Hosseini is smart  —  and he’s shown no evidence of that over the course of this last year  —  he’ll take the losses and orchestrate the immediate release of all surviving hostages and the respectful return of the remains of those who were killed in captivity. Either way, if Israel can resist the Biden administration’s attempts to slow and stall it’s counteroffensive, the fat lady has sung. (READ MORE: Israel Forced to Live Beyond Hollywood’s Imagination)

The “existential threat” paradigm has shifted. Irretrievably. And this time, when the sand has settled  —  there may actually be a chance for peace in the Middle East.

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