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They sure were pumping out the fake news Thursday night as Israel allegedly was launching a huge counterattack in Iran. The featured picture on this post is from a Jerusalem Post tweet the night of the attacks and it was an Israeli strike on Gaza, not on Iran. Instead of missiles, Iran says there were only quadcopter drones launched from inside of Iran and that nothing came from Israel itself.

Israel downplayed reported airstrikes against Iran that appeared to hit targets near that country’s suspected nuclear program on Friday, seeming to cast the operation as proof Israel could reach the sites, rather than a full-scale attack.

As we know there were media reports that Israeli drones, or missiles, had hit targets near Isfahan, Iran — close to the Natanz nuclear facility — as well as targets in Syria and Iraq. Israel’s Army Radio repeated these reports. Now we know that some of those reports were fabricated to make it look like a huge attack was taking place when it fact it wasn’t.

The picture above was reported by the J. Post as an Israeli missile strike inside of Iran. Instead it was actually an Israeli missile strike in Gaza months ago.

While some in Israel wanted a more forceful response, seeing an opportunity to target Iran’s nuclear program and even the regime itself, others believed that simply demonstrating Iran’s limits, and Israel’s capabilities, was enough. Also President Biden and other world “leaders” were telling Israel to back off and that they wouldn’t help Israel attack Iran itself. That alone may have prompted Israel to tone down their response.

Israel Just Hasn’t Got the Air Force for a War with Iran

You see Israel doesn’t have the Air Force it needs to conduct a large scale strike against Iran. I put up an article on Don’t speak news yesterday that described this dilemma Israel faces.

Israel hasn’t got B-52 strategic bombers like the US has.

Israel hasn’t got a long range missile force even nearly comparable to Iran’s.

What Israel has got is a large air force of medium-range multi-role aircraft like F-35I, F-16I, and F-15I all of which have limited range and comparably small payload, necessitating many-many missions in order to achieve sizeable results.

The Israeli air force is perfectly designed to kill endless numbers of people in nearby Beirut or kill a few people in a consulate in Damascus – but next to useless if talking about a massive air campaign against Tehran or any big number of other targets in Iran.

The 2 biggest issues Israel faces with it’s Air Force are range and payload. That’s why without U.S. participation with it’s refueling tankers AND assistance in the bombing run using B1s and B52s, Israel could never successfully attack Iran by itself unless it resorts to long range nuclear capable missiles. The problem with those are that Israel doesn’t have many of them and they’d save those for a last resort, the dreaded “Sampson option”. Here is more from yesterday’s article from Karsten Riise.

Nuclear Only Option for Israel 

But there is a catch: And that is, that Israel does simply not possess the capability, the air power to hit back hard at Iran  – EXCEPT if Israel goes nuclear.

But while Israel hasn’t got the thousands of drones and missiles for a long-range air campaign which Iran has, Israel does possess a smaller number of long range of nuclear capable missiles (some on submarines) which can hit anywhere.

And that is undoubtedly what Bezalel Smotrich wants – an Israeli nuclear attacks all over Iran.

The Middle East is about to become the nuclear focus of the world.

Yes the Middle East very well could be the nuclear focus of the world, but everything is still in play with NATO and Russia as well.