Experts and defense analysts agree that Iran would respond to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities by proxy, specifically by Hamas and Hezbollah rocketry launched at Israeli towns and cities. Indeed, this is one of the reasons beyond sheer ideological spite that the Iranian leadership has gone to such great lengths to arm both Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Iranian leadership may be coming very close to forcing Israel’s hand. If Hezbollah seeks to open a second front against Israel, then Israel could find itself in a two-front war with terrorist entities. Make no mistake, Israel would achieve its objective of destroying the majority of the longest-range and most lethal missiles supplied to Hamas and Hezbollah by Iran, Syria, and perhaps even North Korea.
This might reduce the costs to Israel of undertaking a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. After all, if Hamas and Hezbollah are temporarily neutered and if the Israeli government concludes that the elements of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who would have command and control over any Iranian nuclear arsenal would pose an existential threat, then the Israelis may decide that their window of opportunity would never be so favorable as the present. After all, Iran’s air defense is only going to get more sophisticated with time, and its missile program is advancing steadily, and so time is otherwise not on Israel’s side.
The Iranians often quip that they play chess while their opponents play checkers. Let us hope before it is too late that the Iranian regime comes to realize, despite its overconfidence, that it is not the grandmaster it believes itself to be.
Or Israel could decide to respond to Hezbollah like the Hand of God. Perhaps Hezbollah as a semi legitimate power in Lebanon now doesn't want to be yoked with either the responsibility of having destroyed the country nor the task of rebuilding it while they're also fighting on the side of Assad which may, ironically drag Turkey into open conflict with them.
If the Iranians are smart, they will limit their response to Israel, and not attack the Gulf States or close Hormuz. If they close the strait or shoot rockets at the GCC, the US will have to go in and destroy their war making capability. That would not be in Iran's interest.
Can we please not go to war pleaseee,by we i mean alll ofthe countries of the world,we are all the same ,we wont get nothing out of killing each other,we have better things to live for like our famiies..please dont pleasee people think
I look at the world thru the lense of biblical prophesy and it says that no matter what the muslims do in the end ISRAEL wins !!!!!!! , it will be bloody and ugly and messy but ultimately “GOD” decides who wins to exercise “HIS” will and “HIS” book says ISREAL wins and Islam will be exterminated !!!!!!!
I think Iran told Hamas to make some trouble as a diversion, and once Gaza is "pacified", Hezbollah will launch missiles onto Israel. Syria too. And this combat helps to incite an "Arab-Spring" revolution in Jordan, and that will turn that country against its peace treaty with Israel. They will go back and forth to keep Israel preoccupied with its immediate neighbors and thus less able to take on Iran. n nOf course, the only rational way for Israel to take on Iran is by launching a full blown nuclear strike. An Israel that is under attack from all sides may yet do this. And if Hamas or Hezbollah wants to really inflame Israel, they can put poison gas on their missiles.
I wondered what the trigger was to start this conflict as Hamas & Israel are always hitting each other. My first thought was political, now I'm thinking maybe Iran is in the shadows, I can't see Israel nuking Iran though, but who knows where this is headed ?
The details of an Israeli attack on Iran are revealed in Jonathan Bloomfieldu2019s award-winning book, u201cPalestine.u201d