Declan Hayes – Strategic Culture Foundation April 11, 2025

The pending destruction of both the Israeli Defence Forces and of the Israeli state they serve has so many similarities with the destruction of the Wehrmacht and of the Nazi state they served that they cannot be ignored.

On the objective, strategic level, we have the concept of lebenstraum, the idea that master races like Hitler’s or Netanyahu’s can continually expropriate the lands of their neighbours. Although this idea is obviously not taken from Dale Carnegie’s How to win friends and influence people playbook, it is guaranteed to do the exact opposite and, in the case of expansionist Israel, which even refuses to define its own borders, to render obsolete their chances of dividing and conquering their enemies and ensuring that countries like Egypt and Jordan, which have been bribed into helping them, are likewise living on borrowed time.

Next we have the tactic of blitzkrieg, of lighting war, which won the Wehrmacht spectacular victories in France and the Low Countries, but which famously came a cropper in the Soviet Union, where Stalingrad was the reputed turning point. But the Wehrmacht, like their Israeli imitators, were honed for short and lightning wars, not to have their edge blunted by slug fests with the Red Army, whose T34 tanks and other weapons were more suited to the Eastern Front’s unforgiving terrain. And, before leaving Stalingrad, it is important to note that the 6th Army, which surrendered there, were only a shadow of their former selves, as unending casualties amongst their most experienced men had winnowed through them, destroying so very much of its wheat, as well as its chaff, before they even clapped eyes on Stalingrad.

Flip back to Israel and we see an army of entitled conscripts and reservists, who have not been trained to fight their own Stalingrads against Hezbollah on Hezbollah’s chosen ground, where they are going to get their asses handed to them, all because Israel’s High Command, like Hitler’s before them, were blinded to the impossible challenges they had set themselves. This is not to say that Hezbollah will “win” but it is to say that those who draw the short straw to lead Israel’s next blitzkrieg into South Lebanon will, like those who preceded them, be also coming out feet first.

If Hezbollah were an isolated case, there might be some hope for Israel. But they are not and there is not. Nothing this side of the Second Coming of the Messiah can save Israel from Iran’s missiles and drones. Though Trump and Netanyahu might well nuke Iran into the next world or gas the Lebanese, not even that will save them.

And the funny thing is none of this should come as a surprise to any of us. Forget that we have applied no sanctions and no muzzles on our mad Israeli dog, and that we have supplied it with a blanket of diplomatic immunity for its crimes, which it commits with the never ending torrent of weapons we supply it with. Because we have not managed to put one iota of sense into its dense, supremacist head, we are as culpable as the most rapacious Israeli conscript.

By all means, hate Iran, Hezbollah and Shias in general and make all the stupid jokes about 72 virgins when criminals slaughter them. But none of that will stop their weapons of mass destruction raining down on Israel and shipping in the Red Sea, the Mediterranean and the Straits of Hormuz.

Accounts of Iran’s formidable fighting capabilities, which may be found, inter alia, here, here, here, here, here and here all testify that, though Iran’s air force sucks, their ballistic missiles are world class and are more than sufficient in number to wipe Israel off the map many times over.

Check out Iran’s ballistic power, which include the Qiam-1/2 with a range of 1,000 km and a 750 kg warhead; the Haj Qasem, with a 1,400 km range, and a 500 kg warhead; the Kheibar Shekan, with a1,450 km range and a 500 kg warhead; the Emad, with a 2,000 km range and a 750 kg payload; the Ghadr-110, with a 2,000 km range and a 1,000 kg payload; the Khorramshah, with a 2,000 km range and a1,800 kg payload. Then check out Iran’s Cruise capabilities, which include the Abu Mahdi, with a 1,000 km range, and a 410 kg warhead; the Soumar, a precision strike missile with a 3,000 km range, and a 700 kg payload. Next, check out Iran’s long-range drones, which include the Kaman-12, with a 1,000 km range, and a 100 kg payload; the Shahed 129, armed with four Sadid-1 precision missiles, with a 1,700 km range; the Mohajer-6, which carries precision-guided munitions with a 2,400 km range; the Shahed 149,which has a 13-bomb payload up to 500 kg, with a 2,500 km range.

Add to all that Iran’s eschatological ideology and that it has recently signed a defence treaty with Russia, and the Iranian military will take plenty of their enemies with them across the Styx, both from the unsinkable aircraft carrier that is Irael, as well as the more than 60 American sitting duck bases in the Gulf, Oman, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Turkey that are all also in their cross hairs.

Because Iran has permanent access to the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman coastlines, it can dominate the waters around the strategic Strait of Hormuz chokepoint, through which 30% of the world’s oil trade passes. Add that the Zagros Mountain Range hugging the country’s southwest provides both a natural barrier against invading enemies, as well as a ready-made underground bunker for missile bases and air defence sites burrowed into them, and it seems that it is Iran and not Israel that possesses the more credible Samson option.

Given that NATO has long known all that, the question arises as to why no one impressed on Trump, Netanyahu and their cronies the suicidal consequences of their actions. The reason can most likely be found in Hitler’s bunker or in whatever Kiev brothel the coke snorting Zelensky is currently holed up in. Netanyahu, Trump and their fellow zealots are hell bent on Armageddon and to hell or the firing squad with anyone, who might as much as think otherwise. As with Hitler in ’45. so also with Netanyahu in ’25.

It is that Messianic mentality that has sealed Netanyahu’s fate. Because the only hope for Israel was to keep the locals squabbling amongst themselves, she not only helped Iran fight Iraq and she worked with the ISIS savages in both Syria and Iraq, and made the Shia anathema throughout the Gulf. Now, Israeli arrogance, coupled with Iranian diplomacy, has changed all of that. Arabs are more united than they have ever been since the days of Hafez Assad and Abdel Nasser and they have finally figured out who is at the root of their problems. That culprit is Israel and their Israeli Defence Forces, whose crimes in Gaza are, at the very least, on a par with those of the Wehrmacht.

But Israel has shot her bolt. Her war crimes, together with her false narratives and never-ending victimhood rhetoric, have lost their cutting edge, not least amongst those Lebanese and Iranians who are fixated on evening the score with them. The Gulf State despots, with their considerable investments to protect, are also saying adieu to the Abraham Accords, which might have allowed Israel to continue its scams a while longer.

All Israel now has going for it is America, which is hard put to meet Israel’s never ending arms requirements, but remains capable of feeding It its ideological manure, which has led Israel into the morass. But that peace, democracy and apple pie tinsel, which has been unending since Halliburton’s ethnic cleansing days in Iraq, might also be coming to an end, as the United States and Israel have spun the same porkies much too often and diminishing returns must now be the order of the day.

Although Israel is still huffing and puffing regarding what it is going to do to Iran, Iran and its Russian ally will be amongst the big winners of Israel’s self-inflicted debacle. Almost 50,000 Israeli companies have shut up shop, Israel’s bond ratings are in the toilet and Israel’s young conscripted army of thugs will once more be bogged down in their own mini Stalingrads that Hezbollah’s tunnels will once more lure them into.

But, as the Israeli body bag count exponentially rises, reflective Arab minds will not be looking back to Stalingrad or the other graveyards of the Wehrmacht. Rather, they will reflect on the 1937 Haifa Massacre, the 1937 Jerusalem Massacre, the 1938 Haifa Massacre, the 1939 Balad al-Sheikh Massacre, the 1939 Haifa Massacre, the 1947 Haifa Massacre, the 1947 Abbasiya Massacre, the 1947 Al-Khisas Massacre, the 1947 Bab al-Amud Massacre, the 1947 Jerusalem Massacre, the 1947 Sheikh Bureik Massacre, the 1948 Jaffa Massacre, the 1956 Khan Yunis Massacre, the 1967 Jerusalem Massacre, the 1982 Sabra and Shatila Massacre, the 1990 Al-Aqsa Massacre, the 1994 Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre, the 2002 Jenin Refugee Camp Massacre, the 2008-9 Gaza Massacre, the 2012 Gaza Massacre, the 2014 Gaza Massacre, the 2018-9 Gaza Massacre, the 2021 Gaza Massacre and the 2023 Gaza Genocide. Remember, they shall remember. And take massive revenge.

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