The IDF take part in a drill in northern Israel simulating war with Hezbollah
Anna Aronheim – the Jerusalem Post Nov 28, 2021
Israel’s military is continuing to develop its ability to conduct a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program should circumstances demand it.
After a five-month hiatus, indirect talks between the United States and Iran are set to resume on Monday, with the other parties to the nuclear deal mediating in hope of reestablishing an agreement to curb the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions.
The defense establishment does not see a war breaking out with Iran or its proxies, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, but the IDF has been keeping an eye on the North and on the South.
It held large-scale exercises in the North in October and November, and there are plans to hold 50% more drills next year than in 2020, and 30% more than in 2021.
The increased exercises set for 2022 follows years of stagnation, and will be the largest training operation in five years, especially for reserve forces.
Following the signing of the Abraham Accords, the IDF has also begun conducting drills with Gulf Arab states.
In a subtle message to Iran, Israel took part in a multilateral maritime security drill in the Red Sea with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and US Naval Forces Central Command’s (NAVCENT).
The drill in early November was the first of its kind, and showed what kind of naval coalition Israel might join should there be military action against Iran.
“It is exciting to see US forces training with regional partners to enhance our collective maritime security capabilities,” V-Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of NAVCENT, US 5th Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces said at the time. “Maritime collaboration helps safeguard freedom of navigation and the free flow of trade, which are essential to regional security and stability.”
There are also hints of an aerial coalition that could come together.
Israeli jets recently escorted a B-1B strategic heavy bomber and KC-10 refuelers on their way to the Gulf. Jets from Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia also escorted those planes while flying through their respective airspace.
Israel’s Blue Flag air drills, which become more popular as the years go on, also provide a clue as to what other countries could fly alongside Israel when push comes to shove.
This year’s Blue Flag saw aircraft from Germany (six Eurofighters), Italy (five F-35 jets and five G550 planes), Britain (six Eurofighters), France (four Raphale jets), India (five Mirage jets), Greece (four F-16 jets), and the US (six F-16 CJ jets) take part.
During the drill, forces practiced aerial battle as well as surface-to-air battle scenarios, advanced surface-to-air missiles combat outlines in enemy territory, and more.
The exercise focused on “broadening and enhancing the operational capabilities of the participating forces,” with a focus on air-to-air and air-to-ground attacks, as well as evading ground-based air defense systems “and various operational scenarios in enemy territory,” the army said at the time of the drill.
While Israel has never joined a regional military coalition, Marom Division commander Col. Aviran Lerer told The Jerusalem Post that there could be a time that Jerusalem might be part of such a partnership.
Lerer, who spoke to The Post after a two-week drill with 500 troops from NAVCENT’s 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, said that the IDF has to be ready to fight with other troops.
The drill, he said, was to strengthen ties with Israel’s main ally and the Marines who “are a significant force in the US military with whom we have a lot of shared interests. The United States always fights as a coalition, and it could be that will be part of a future coalition. We, as an army, have to do everything we can to be ready for a future conflict; we see the Americans as a strategic ally, and there could be a time when we will work and fight together.”
While Israel’s diplomats are working around the clock to influence the United States, the UK and France on the Iran talks, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that the “best-case scenario” would be a deal that not only focuses on uranium enrichment but also on Tehran’s ballistic missile program and its regional hostility.
“Concerning Iran, we must influence our partners and have ongoing discussion with them,” Gantz said. “Our other obligation is to build a military force, which is an important issue by itself. I ordered [the military] to improve its force build-up, in parallel to our discussions with our strategic partners.”
So much flowery wishy-washy language in this article. Any deal rests on the perception of Russia and China, & where they stand. Yesterday the fake news reported that an Iranian official had tacitly admitted that Iran did have a nuclear weapons program.
As I’ve suggested many times. Iran will have been assisted with its air defense systems, & I don’t think Iran is going to have a problem with stealth aircraft.
What does stealth technology really do? It allows military planners to convince thicko politicians that XYZ military attack is safe, justified, and with a high chance of success. The important one is ‘safe’, as in the planes come home. Having some thicko soldiers shot or blown up on the ground is no big deal, so long as the numbers are kept down. The serious problems start when $80 million dollar planes are shot down. It is not so much the value, but this sheeple belief that no one, let alone Iran, can shoot down US planes (Israeli planes). Maybe the US deep state wants anti-war riots in the mix?
So there are two ways to look at a possible attack. They don’t trust stealth tech, so they must take out Iranian air defenses, so Iran has prior warning & immediately hits Israel and US bases with all they have, & maybe nukes from the Soviet era. Or, they rely on stealth & suffer substantial losses.
Iranian nuclear facilities are very well protected. Does the US have a ground penetrator that can shield a small nuke through 80ft of hard rock and 20ft of super-strength concrete? They need to use nukes so that the detonation site self seals by turning the rock into molten glass. This happens with standard underground nuke tests, but they have the luxury of drilling a shaft and backfilling it.
It could well be that both Russia and China will draw red lines, & both countries could move personal into Iran, or even their militaries.
The Israeli elites must be very concerned about the state of the US economy and the risks of succession and even civil war. The US is a very different social animal today, compared to the 1930s. Today’s sheeple are much more urbanised. They rely on very fragile systems to provide food, water, and power. It is okay to fantasise about sheeple fleeing the big cities, which they have been doing. They have been doing this, but these are sheeple who have options. They have a family to go to, they have the financial means, their employer helps them relocate, or they have digital work which lets them move to wherever. But in a time of real duress, fleeing the cities is fraught with problems. US winters are very cold. Only Florida and the very South escape the cold
In the summer, you have terrible heat, and only the Northwest has comfortable weather. Most Amerikans rely on heating with cheap fuel, & aircon with cheap power. And keep in mind, Spring and Autumn are 2/3 week affairs. It can go from 90C to -10/20C in days. So easy to see how things can ‘snowball’ (pun intended) out of control. A CME (coronal mass ejection) would be another way to induce this calamity. Israel must be worried because no one else will bankroll this failing state, no one else has or wants a hegemonic Monopoly Money currency like the US. No one has the Monopoly Money to throw at Israel.
And there’s a raft of countries that relies on the US money system. The UK, & the City crime cartels, the EU, Japan, Australia & most Middle East oil producers, many of which are already technically bankrupt, and why they are willing to militarily support Israel and the US over Iran
because fundamentally, they need to keep the house of cards standing, the card game needs to carryon. To be honest, even if China and Russia back Iran, I think the situation with the world economy is so far gone that I don’t think the US, UK, or Israel cares about the consequences.
Covid carries on because the global banking system is broken, more QE and the UK, & US wants to degrade successful economic powers.
Israel will fight to the last American…….
I don’t think since Palestine was stolen in 1948 and renamed Israel they’ve taken on a truly formidable enemy, but I think they’ll find one with Iran. They know America is on its last legs – they nobbled it – so time is running out for them to put America in harm’s way for them. I assume that’s why they’re pushing this.
Those despicable sub human seed of cain won’t fight their own wars. I hope Iran wipes them off the face of the planet.
Slowly but surely, the scenario predicted by the Fatima prophecy of 1917 is unfolding before our very eyes. I myself never imagined that the “errors of Russia” would spread to the United States under the guise of “political correctness”, but it’s happened. The neo-Bolsheviks have even succeeded in hijacking the American presidency!
Only this prayer will bring lasting peace:
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now Your Spirit over the earth.
Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war.
May the Lady of All Nations, who once was Mary, be our Advocate.
Amen.”
And to think you fought for these deranged Zionist mongrel mutants in WWII to establish the State of Israel for them (Balfour Declaration). But Christians will always fight for their Jewish Overlords, since their god is a Jew… Only the Nazis opposed this plan..
Hmmm, in 2006 Hezbollah made them cry & they had to change their undies ??
What will be the result against Iranian Army ??
Any how, I can say only Mazel Tov to them & sure they’ll need lots of Tovs …
Iran is a Drone and Missile superpower just ask four-star General MacKeanzi of USCENTCOM who had 7 trillion budget… and actually lost the entire region to a two-star Field Marshal General Qasem Suleimani. This is common knowledge now and field-realities show this. Zionists better first do something about Hamas next door and then have such wet-dreams. The recent hacks by “Moses Staff” group just revealed how vulnerable Zionists regime is. Besides the media never reports on Israels failures in its covert war with Iran. You all know assassinated Iranians but most of you probably don’t know the assassinated US and Israeli targets.
Nuclear energy is extremely important, nuclear weapons though are just a distraction. Sure-strike conventional missiles are much more useful and can be used all the time with the most effectiveness and least collateral damage. Israel simply has no geographical depth to stand any chance against Resistance Axis now surrounding it. So they now have two main cards to play:
1- Corona/Vaccination/Biologic weapons
2- Start a new war around Iran as distraction or buffer using pawn artificial states such as Jordan, Azerbaijan or even Turkey.
Israel attacking Iran? Not likely. The bellyaching cowardly Jews are shooting their mouths off, Israel only attacks the defenseless.
The Israelis are total pussies.