Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant
Dan Sabbagh – The Guardian Aug 5, 2024
As Israel braces for what appears to be a likely Iranian retaliation, it is almost certain western and regional powers will be drawn in. Overnight, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defence minister, briefed his US counterpart, Lloyd Austin, discussing according to Israel’s readout “a series of scenarios” and corresponding “defensive and offensive capabilities” should Tehran attack.
Gallant held a similar discussion with the UK defence secretary, John Healey, on Friday, giving the new Labour minister “an operational situation assessment”, Israel said. A day later Britain indicated it was moving military assets into Cyprus to prepare for a possible evacuation of UK nationals from Lebanon. The need for heightened readiness in the Middle East will not be lost on the RAF and its Typhoon pilots stationed at the Akrotiri airbase, either.
Iran appears set on responding swiftly to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas political leader killed in Tehran, whose killing Iran blames on Israel. It issued a warning notice to aviation on Monday of danger from the centre, west and north-west of the country, where its missile launch sites are based.
The expectation is that Iran’s response will be more extensive than its response to Israel’s airstrike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus in April, when a combination of 300 missiles and drones were fired at Israel – and the fear is that Tehran’s proxy ally Hezbollah could be drawn in, using its own stock of between 120,000 and 200,000 unguided missiles and drones to strike with more intensity than before. The goal is to overwhelm Israel’s air defences, and so inflict serious damage on industrial sites and population centres.
In April, the complex attack from Iran was essentially prevented from causing any meaningful damage by Israel’s anti-missile Arrow 2 and 3 air defence, while fighter jets from the US, UK and Jordan knocked out slower-moving drones. It is expected that a US-led coalition is on standby again, despite reports of tensions during a phone call last Thursday between the US president, Joe Biden, and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Though the US president reportedly told Netanyahu not to take him for granted, as the Israeli thinktank INSS observes, realpolitik forces Biden into helping out. Without the assistance of the US in the skies – and of its allies, including a UK prime minister who would be authorising military action for the first time – Israel faces the risk of sustaining a level of loss that would “compel it” to retaliate further and risk a wider conflict in the Middle East.
Eldad Shavit and Chuck Freilich, authors of the INSS analysis, argue that a fresh US military deployment of warships and a squadron of fighter jets, announced on Friday, is “intended to minimise as much as possible” the risk of Iran “landing a blow that would force Israel to respond harshly and put the United States in a dilemma of how to act”. The argument has a clear logic, although Iran, too, has a better idea of the likely defence plan.
It is often observed that in a diplomatic and military crisis the biggest risk is of miscalculation – a violent move that leads to an outbreak of escalating tit-for-tat. The brazen killing of Haniyeh has already angered Tehran to a degree not seen since the current crisis started on 7 October; now it appears the critical point is how far Israel’s air defences hold, with the help of allies, whose support Netanyahu has nevertheless strained repeatedly for months.
NOT IN OUR NAME
rothschild took over the British economy after the battle of waterloo
where rothschild loaned money to both sides
since then we have fought 2 world wars for the jew
we pay back 5000 pounds per second to rothschild
enough is enough
We must not get involved in the middle east battle for palestines freedom
we should be burning down synagogues
There’s rumour Israel may jump the gun and attack Iran before Iran launches its retaliation but this may favour Iran. Israel cannot claim it had the right to attack Iran twice and still say it holds the moral high ground. Also further attack from Israel fits the ancient philosophy of self-defence, in which once you are attacked all your responses thereafter are a part of self-defence and you still hold the moral high ground.
Beside Israel will stand the US, UK and others, so even if they don’t involve themselves in the initial wave they’ll involve themselves thereafter, so Iran won’t have started the war and it will always be conducting self-defence. This also allows Iran’s allies to say they came to its aid and no amount of western propaganda will ever make this turd smell sweet. We will have started the war without a doubt.
‘Briefed his US and UK counterparts’? In reality gave them their orders. The lies that the Guardian spouts about the effectiveness of Israeli air defences are laughable.
So the British police will be assisting Muslims in destroying indigenous Brits, while bombing Muslims in their own countries. They’ll call their native populations Nazis while supporting Nazis in Ukraine who work for Neocon interests while supporting Zionists in genocide in Gaza against both Christian and Muslim Palestinians, mostly women and children and then telling us what a bad guy Putin is. Meanwhile Stammer will deny pensioners heating allowance so they can cull them in Winter. Then they are going to scare us with a climate hoax, putting us in 15 minute cities because of emissions, yet war and the weapon manufacture seem magically not to cause any emissions and will magically bring “Democracy” to what ever country they will bomb back to the Stoneage. Remeber Lybia we brought them “Democracy”. So more surveillence,endless wars, and mass migration from the third world. Nothing to see here folks.
“US and UK expected to be drawn in…””
NO surprise there!
It’s called “The Axis Of ZOG” for a REASON!!! 🙄
same ugly sabbatean gene lines as the late jakob Rapeschild
One day, him & smottrich will end up being slowly dismembered by the semites
as for Healey’s Coalition with Israel..its all planned – UK to fight for Israel
Der Starmer to implement consription in near future
this subhuman above is a war criminal, an imposter and occupier of Palestine. He is ugly as a serpent, crocodile face.
ZWOG is gradually setting the chess board for their upcoming ‘end of days bibletard war’ as they direct both ‘sides’ to fulfill their ‘prophecies’.
More Orwell news. Hoax ‘assassination’ of Haniyeh. Notice they don’t show us the corpse. How convenient that Iran is going to ‘retaliate’–as if reading from a script. Remember we’re supposed to blindly believe these Jew/Donmeh owned media outlets.
“Drawn in…” because The City of London’s (jewish) bankers have the right to defend themselves. Against any crimes they and their Zionist counterparts commit.
And even better, if journalists are murdered, then no crimes will be recorded, reported. And if some 10,000 prisoners are kept in Israeli prisons, then they won’t be free to reveal how they were imprisoned without charge (sic), and were not allowed to be ‘tried’ for whatever ‘crime’ Israel’s western convinced media mouths for it.
All the while, America amasses an armada off shore of Israel. Gives armament to slaughter the feeble “resistance” of any who resists.
All to the applause for a war criminal to be cheered and greeted by America’s elected Congress.
What a conquered country you are, America. A Z-jCC, or Zionist-jewish Conquered Country. You are made as evil as those political mercenary whores who jumped to clap, jumped to clap the foreign power which rules you… and the Americans from whom you steal their tax-payer money to finance the genocide you perpetuate.
The Israeli looks like a Rothschild but also Graham Norton; the face is a bit negroid. It is in the Jews and some Celts that we can find the White Africans
if Iran has no own nukes (doubtful) they will have
got some from Pakistan or China or N Korea .
they need bunkerbusters and far reaching rockets
to USA+ some Dolphin class nuke submarines . !
@ MM
after a nukewar there will be no western propaganda
anymore + nobody will ask for moral + justification .
I like the build up to the WWIII scare-event and the slow destruction of the Israeli mafia but sofar it’s mainly subterranean warfare .. I hope the scriptwriters now heat up the suspension ..
ugly looking thing…these yids always look 50 years older than they really are…
Excellent Alastair Crooke ME analysis on Judging Freedom ( c Herman Munster’s lovechild)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZkfEh4bIIw
says council of ~100 rabbis control 800,000 settlers in WB- almost a separate israeli army-a rabid messianic army separate from the idf under control of weird psycho rabbis
The rabbis really are the ones to target in every country…
they are the real satanic force undermining our countries
(Mileikowsky on a mission from Schneerson)