Hello John and Doves,
As I type this, Israel is pondering a retaliation
against Iran's direct attack on Israel. And Iran is
threatening to use their 'never before used' weapon on
Israel if they do retaliate. (see my other Doves letter on
this)
Meanwhile, I've read some interesting 'takes' on the
Iranian attack - some are saying that:
1) Iran "showed restraint, knowing most of their
drones and missiles would be destroyed and no deaths." and
"Iran could have done a lot more damage if they wanted to
and could have over whelmed Iron Dome."
2) "Apparently drones are easy to take down and
everything was intercepted." And "Iran said they
didn't need to do more, even after nothing was destroyed".
3) And "if Israel has proof that Iran was behind
the October 7 attacks they need to show it to the
world. Otherwise, Israel looks like the one escalating
this."
4) And "an embassy is suppose to be a 'safe
space' so why did Israel attack it?"
5) "Iran warned Arab nations, including Turkey,
of their plan to attack Israel and that intelligence was
relayed to the U.S. and Israel. Iran must have
anticipated this relay. Biden reportedly told Turkey
to instruct Iran to make sure the response was "limited", to
avoid escalation."
6) "The Arab countries that defended Israel in
this Iranian attack will turn around and defend Iran when
Israel retaliates."
I would like to add my thoughts and some news links in
response to the above comments...
Iran Showed No
Restraint:
Israel is always told by 'the world' to 'keep their
responses to attacks by Hamas/Hezbollah/etc proportionate'.
But what Iran did was definitely NOT proportionate.
IF Iran had "showed restraint" wouldn't they have done
a "proportionate" attack and hit an Israeli embassy or a
general's house? Seems that would have been
"proportionate" and a sign of "restraint".
Drones Are a
Formidable Weapon or War:
As for drones being easily shot down, a recent drone
attack killed U.S. troops in Jordan and many U.S. troops
stationed in the Middle East have been injured by drone
attacks on U.S. bases. Dozens of Kurds have been
killed by drone attacks. And Ukrainians and Russians
have been hitting each other hard with drone attacks.
Also, another Russian warship was sunk by a drone.
Russia is using Iranian drones against Ukrainians.
Drones are a formidable weapon.
Putin's
forces hit by double hammer blow as warship destroyed in
fireball drone attack
"The IDF said 170 drones were fired at Israel from
Iran, and Israeli Air Force jets shot down dozens of
them. U.S. aircraft operating from bases in Saudi
Arabia and Jordan shot down between 70 and 80 of the
drones...Iran's state news agency, IRNA, said its
domestically built Shahed 131 and 136 drones were used in
the attack, the larger of which have a range of around 1,200
miles."
"Kheibar Shekan ballistic missiles and Emad ballistic
missiles were also used in the attack, according to
IRNA. Kheibar Shekan missiles, unveiled in 2022, are
one of Iran's most modern ballistic missiles, IRNA said, and
the Emad missiles can carry a payload of 1,600 pounds.
The state news agency said the cruise missiles used in the
attack were Paveh missiles, which it said were capable of
attacking targets from multiple directions by taking varied
paths."
"The IDF said none of the 170 drones launched by Iran
crossed into Israeli territory, not did any of the more than
30 cruise missiles fired by the Islamic republic. Of
120 ballistic missiles fired at Israel from Iran, the U.S.
officials told CBS News only five got through Israeli and
U.S. air defenses and hit Israeli territory. One U.S.
official told CBS News that roughly half of the
ballistic missiles failed on launch or crashed in flight."
What
Iran launched at Israel in its unprecedented attack, and
what made it through the air defenses - CBS News
I believe that God protected Israel. The
Archangel Michael "stands guard" over Israel. To have about
half of the ballistic missiles fail on launch or crash in
flight is miraculous. And not one drone made it into
Israeli territory. Nothing happens outside of God's
will for His chosen people and land.
The October 7
Massacre:
As for October 7, even the U.N., and the world, didn't
believe Israel concerning the rapes - and many were
brutal. Women's pelvic bones were broken due to being
brutally raped. Not until months later did the U.N.
send 'investigators' to Israel to look at the evidence...and
then they said, '"there are reasonable grounds to believe
Hamas committed rape, "sexualized torture" and other cruel
and inhuman treatment of women during its surprise attack in
southern Israel on Oct. 7." And that there is credible
evidence that female hostages were raped. This was
reported March 4, 2024 five months after the attacks. But by
then the world said Israel lied. Most people did not
believe that such brutality could be committed by the
'peaceful' Palestinians/the religion of peace.
UN:
'Reasonable grounds' to believe Hamas raped women on Oct.
7 | AP News
Israel, on the other hand, is never believed -
they have to provide proof and usually that proof is
suppressed so the lie can continue to spread and stir up
rage. The world does not want to believe Israeli proof
for anything. Why did Israel feel in grave danger
before they hit the Iranian embassy compound? We may
never know exactly what provoked this.
Iranian
Embassy:
Yes, an embassy is sovereign territory. And Iran
has the 'approved' right to retaliate for this attack on
their soil. But a hospital is suppose to be a safe
place too. A kindergarten is suppose to be a safe
place too. But since when does Hamas or Hezbollah or
Iran care about those places? It's well known they use
human shields.
As for the Iranian embassy compound that got hit by
Israel, Israel knew something...they wouldn't have done this
if they didn't KNOW something/someone was a very big danger
to the state of Israel. They knew Iran would respond
to this attack. What Israel did
needed to be done - and was worth it to them to take
on an Iranian response. Israel took out what they
considered a grave, grave threat. - maybe a general
who was pushing for a nuclear attack on Israel.
We only know what Iran reported - concerning who was
killed.
Advance Warning? The U.S. Denies This:
As for Iran
putting out a warning before attacking Israel - the
U.S. said that Washington was not warned. And that the Iranian
aim was to cause significant damage.
"Turkish,
Jordanian and Iraqi officials said Sunday that Iran gave wide
notice days before its drone and missile attack on Israel, but U.S.
officials said Tehran did not warn Washington and that is
was aiming to cause significant damage."
"Iranian Foreign
Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said Sunday that Iran gave
neighbouring countries and Israel's ally the United States 72
hours' notice it would launch the strikes. Turkey's
Foreign Minister said it had spoken both to Washington and
Tehran before the attack, adding it had conveyed messages as
an intermediary to be sure reactions were proportionate."
"Iran said the
reaction would be a response to Israel's attack on its
embassy in Damascus and that it would not go beyond this.
We were aware of the possibilities. The
developments were not a surprise" said a Turkish diplomatic
source."
"One senior
official in U.S. President Biden's administration denied
Amirabdollahian's statement, saying Washington did not
have contact with Iran through Swiss intermediaries but did
not get notice 72 hours in advance." "That is
absolutely not true," the official said. They did not
give a notification, nor did they give any sense of "these
will be the targets, so evacuate them."
The U.S. is
denying a notification pre-attack from Iran - so Biden did
relay a message to the Iranians at that time to limit
their response. Iran did what they planned to do - every
launch was to 'kill a Jew'. Otherwise, what kind of
'retaliation' was that? They were all hot and bothered
about their dead generals and 'sovereign territory' - they
would not have planned an attack where they knew every drone
and rocket would be shot down and no one would die.
These weapons cost them tens of millions - too much to
'waste'. They wouldn't plan an abysmal failure.
They look like incompetent boobs against Israel. I agree
with the U.S. official that said, 'Iran is claiming a
widespread warning in an attempt to compensate for the lack of
any major damage from the attack' - in other words - a dude of
an attack.
Allah looks weak
and powerless against the God of Israel.
Muslim
Countries Helped Defend Israel:
Those Muslim
countries that defended Israel will not defend Iran.
They will not come to Iran's aid. They hate Iran more
than they hate the Jews. Jordan had even asked for
Israeli help when they fought Palestinians that "occupied"
Jordan. Jordan has not forgotten Israel's help with
these terrorists.
Those Muslim
countries don't trust Biden or Iran. Those Muslim
countries that came to Israel's aid are hoping Israel pummels
Tehran. They will celebrate in the streets!
As for Turkey,
they hate the Zionist state and Jews. Turkey will attack
Israel when the time comes.
Iranian
'Never Before Used' Weapon: (see my other
Doves letter today about this)
As for Iran's
massive assault on Israel - Iran knew Israel would
retaliate. And now Iran is threatening to use a 'never
used before weapon' for any Israeli' retaliation.
Was Israel set
up by Iran? Was this attack 'bait'? Iran made the
embassy retaliation attack big enough that Israel can not
ignore. As the U.S. official said, the Iranian intent
was to be highly destructive. Every missile launch was
to kill a Jew.
Israeli Retaliation:
The Iranian intent was to kill Jews - and even
though their barrage of drones and missiles failed
miserably - they have poked the Jewish state in the
eye. I think the result is the same - the ball is in
Israel's court - will they retaliate? They must -
Iran is intent on destroying Israel - thus all their
proxies that have been beating Israel down for tens of
years. This will NOT stop. And the West will
NOT stop pushing for a two state solution. To the
utter destruction of the Jewish state, if they could.
Israel needs to hit Iran hard. It appears that
the rest of the world supports Iran's terrorist activities
- otherwise, they'd be supporting Israel instead of trying
to divide the land and weaken Israel to an indefensible
piece of property.
Will Israel retaliate? Yep - this could lead
eventually to the leveling of Damascus. Especially
if Iran uses that 'never before used weapon'. I
wonder if Russia/Iran/etc will attack before Israel moves
against Iran? Russian tanks are on the
Golan.....interesting position now...
Again...nothing happens to Israel or the Jewish
people outside of G-d's will. Israel/the Jewish
people is the apple of His eye. Go ahead and poke
it.....
I like my t-shirt - "Don't make me come down
there!" God.
I should send one to Biden and the Ayatollah.
In
Conclusion:
World opinion
is against Israel no matter what they do. The UN security
council condemns them ALL the time!! They have many
enemies in the Obama/Biden admin ...I don't blame them for
keeping the US in the dark about the embassy compound
hit..and hopefully, they won't tell the U.S. anything
about their retaliatory attack on Iran!! The US
leaks to Israel's enemies and Obama/Biden bully
Israel. Israel obviously knows this.
G-d protected
Israel. And all those drones, cruise missiles and
the hypersonic missiles..destroyed by the hand of
God. Iran wanted to do damage - major
destruction! They got a rude awakening!
And Iran
responding with 'now we're even...it's done.' IMO is
just more baiting...They maybe
be hoping that they retaliated with enough weaponry...even
with the little damage... to drag Israel out....the
Iranian intent was behind every launch.
The Ayatollah
needs to admit the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is
greater than his god. Do not go against the God of
Israel.
And Iran
is the biggest backer of terrorism around the whole
world. Time the world got sick and tired of their
crap...instead of putting Israel in the position to clean
Iran out.
Maybe when
jihadis start attacking the US and Europe in force, people
will wake up. Too many evil people in the US
government and other governments side with satan...who is
using Iran against God's people.
We will soon
see what Israel does in terms of retaliation...and if God
is ready...this will escalate into the Gog and Magog War.
Maybe FBI Director Wray knows the jihadis
will go green when Iran retaliates with their new
weapon. That's why all the warnings of late..he's
covering his behind.
The world is on the wrong side of this war.
Pray for the
peace of Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance