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04-17-24, 11:57 AM | #976 | |
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Same goes for Bibi his politics resulted in a weaker defence, and he was warned for this by his own security service.
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04-17-24, 12:15 PM | #977 |
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Striking Iran's nuclear facilities 'on the table', says ex-Mossad intelligence chief
The former director of intelligence at the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, says targeting nuclear facilities in Iran is among the options on the table as Israel decides how to respond to Saturday's attack. Zohar Palti spoke to The World with Yalda Hakim in Jerusalem about possible responses after Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones at Israel. Asked if everything was on the table, including targeting nuclear facilities, Mr Palti said: "No doubt. Everything is on the table right now." Pressed on whether this included nuclear facilities, he said: "Including everything." Iran temporarily closed its nuclear facilities on Sunday over "security considerations" and the International Atomic Energy Agency kept its inspectors away for two days.
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04-17-24, 12:29 PM | #978 |
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Striking nuclear program components of critical nature for the bomb program could not be done with distance weapons alone, would need fighterbombers inside Iranian airspace, most likely, also would need warheads of a size that make them practically equivalents to small nukes. The two key facilities of Iran are practically buried under mountains that would be needed to be practically blown up. One can safely assume the Iranians know this and did not leave it as open as Tora Bora. I am not certain it can be done without troops on the ground in these locations, and no matter the chosen tactical method it woud, be a very extremely high risk operation. As long as one does not want just to push a symbolic action. In which case one must ask the question - why then taking any risk at all? Iran turned itself into a joke with its 320 missile/drone attack, militarily it was a desaster for them - this time.
Very difficult choices. No matter the plan, if it goes wrong, it costs Israel the nimbus of being militarily very capable. And that, albeit being an immaterial one, would be a loss hard to overestimate. If you lose the nimbus of being a fearsome enemy, then your enemy will not fear you anymore. Not good. This is like a chess position where all moves available cannot improve or even just support the current situation, but can only compromise it - but making a move you nevertheless must, skipping a move is not allowed.
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04-17-24, 12:55 PM | #979 |
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I was thinking "The West" in general as I don't pay too much attention to the UK other than to look at pretty pictures of old buildings built with stone, or videos of pipe bands marching thru a town playing "Scotland the Brave".
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04-17-24, 01:01 PM | #980 |
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Ah, okay, my mistook
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04-17-24, 01:15 PM | #981 | |
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04-17-24, 03:50 PM | #982 | |
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They cant yet walk over water. I think since long time that if you want to blow up said two key installations, you have to do it from inside. Means: special commandos on the ground seizing the objectives and mining them. I give the success chances of that as almost zero. If they could have destroyed these sites with cyberattacks, they would have done so by now.
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04-17-24, 04:01 PM | #983 |
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Why the probability that Israel will strike hard is bigger than the probability that it won't.
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04-17-24, 04:03 PM | #984 |
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Too bad somebody can't just ram a container ship into them.
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04-17-24, 04:23 PM | #985 | |
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If I had the knowledge I would say-They are not going to bomb Iran, no, they are going to bomb Iranian interest in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Next step or secondary targets would be important Iranian infrastructure in Iran. Markus
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04-17-24, 05:33 PM | #986 |
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I'd think that if somebody had just launched ballistic missiles at me, I might be thinking of eliminating anything really really really dangerous that those fellows could send towards me on top of a ballistic missile the next time. Especially if my so called friend is going to keep giving those fellows pallets and pallets of yankee greenbacks.
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04-18-24, 05:16 AM | #987 | |
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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh loses another close relative days after three sons killed by IDF
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04-18-24, 05:39 AM | #988 | |
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Over 55,000 Russian soldiers dead in Ukraine, reveals BBC analysis
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04-18-24, 04:41 PM | #989 |
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I wonder if Russia might want some illegal aliens?
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04-18-24, 11:29 PM | #990 |
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It sounds like they targeted the fighter base in Isfahan. Not the Natanz "nuclear site", but close. |
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