Observation: The question isn't keeping Iran and its proxies out of the conflict - it's minimising their impact
Dr. Aaron Lerner 22 October 2023

The question isn't keeping Iran and its proxies out of the conflict - it's minimising their impact.

Profound ignorance drives the American assumption that blackmailing Israel not to pre-emptively strike will somehow contain the conflict.

The Americans are in good company. Israeli experts such as Major General res. Amos Yadlin still insist that Hezbollah is deterred, just as they equally insisted, up to the morning of October 7th, that Hamas was deterred.

Those 4 cruise missiles and 15 drones intercepted by the USS Carney weren't an Iranian ordered one-off.

The destruction they could have caused to Eilat would have already plunged us into the regional expansion Mr. Biden so desperately wants to avoid.

And there's more to come.

Again. The question isn't keeping Iran and its proxies out of the conflict - it's minimising their impact.

A first-strike eliminating Hezbollah's long and medium range rockets and missiles, now, is key to minimising the damage Israel will suffer from third parties during the long Gaza campaign.

Faced with the choice between being backed by a happy Biden or an angry one, the responsible choice for our leaders is that Israelis do not need to be dying to please Mr. Biden.

Regarding resources:

F-35s are irrelevant for the Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Strip is a total of 141 square miles. Gaza City is 17 square miles.

A minute fraction of Israel's F-15s and F-16s are needed to carry out the most intensive bombing imaginable in support of an invasion of the Gaza Strip.

Ditto for IAF helicopters.

A pre-emptive strike that destroys Hezbollah's long and medium range missiles would not hamper our invasion of the Gaza Strip. It would facilitate execution of an intensive operation which by all counts will take a considerable amount of time.
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