What is the appropriate response from Israel to Iran?
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Bomb all the critical facilities. Oil, refineries, drone, bollistic missile factories. All of it.
Let it go, more retaliation will only escalate things even more.
Put on a nice rendition of The Producers, maybe send like 20 pizzas to the ayatollah and make him pay for them.
One would argue that choosing to stand pat given the effectiveness of the Iron Dome (my understanding is they shot done nearly everything fired at them, only minor damage to a military base) allows them to claim a bit of the moral high ground here.
If they’d both just try bacon sammiches, I bet they’d chill.
At this point, call it good.
If Iran strikes again, do what ericram said in post 3.
If Iran strikes again, do what ericram said in post 3.
Israel is currently heavily engaged in Gaza, having cost them a great deal of political capital. As this attack showed, Israel’s missile defense is quite effective, and without foreign cooperation attacks like this are all that Iran is capable of.
Whereas additional strikes from Israel give Iran an excuse to escalate.
Two fronts would double Bibi’s chances of avoiding the clink.
Depends how hard, and I’m not saying they should, Israel hits them back.
Israel started this latest round of conflict by bombing the Iranian consulate in Syria.
The US needs to stop funding every one of these crap hole countries in the ME…including Israel.
The US needs to stop funding every one of these crap hole countries in the ME…including Israel.
If any response is warranted, perhaps a use of special forces in a clandestine operation on a very specific military target is the way to go. A functional military operation with a less than. 1% chance of civilian casualties and nothing that will draw a lot of attention.
If 300 missles/drone attacks came our way, we would expect some kind of response.
If 300 missles/drone attacks came our way, we would expect some kind of response.
I kinda feel like they launched 300 slow missiles and Israel shot them all down. So shoot 300 slow missiles back and see if they have the same capabilities.
Substitute “The Producers” with “Hairspray” or “Mean Girls”, and this would bring the Islamic Republic to its knees. Maybe literally.
You’re a tool.
You don’t actually have to choose to remain ignorant, but I am confident you will.
While senior Israeli officials have framed this weekend’s Iranian attack as “revealing the true face” of Tehran, the reality is that the proximate cause was Israel’s misjudgment in its strike on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria that killed two senior Iranian generals, among others.
After years in which both sides operated within the framework of a largely undeclared set of “rules”, Israel – as analysts have pointed out – bulldozed through every red line to attack a location that Tehran maintains was tantamount to attacking Iranian soil.
“Israel went too far in assassinating the Iranian general, probably, in a diplomatic location,” said Yagil Levy, a professor of military sociology at the Open University of Israel.
“Israel is led by the availability of its weapons systems. And whenever the country or the leadership feels that they have a good intelligence, a good opportunity and available weaponry systems that can do the job, Israel strikes,” he added. “Israel doesn’t have a really strategic approach … the attempt to identify the [connections] between specific military actions and expected benefits is not in the repertoire of the Israeli leadership.”
When someone is in a fight for their life, the only response is to win convincingly, and not let their opponent have another chance.
I marvel at the people who talk about moral high ground, and other such idiotic phrases and the notion behind them. If they were in the middle of once nice neighborhood that had ghettos popping up all around them, and they had managed to avoid multiple drive by shootings, would they just say "I'm a good person, and I'll just turn the other cheek and see what happens"?
I marvel at the people who talk about moral high ground, and other such idiotic phrases and the notion behind them. If they were in the middle of once nice neighborhood that had ghettos popping up all around them, and they had managed to avoid multiple drive by shootings, would they just say "I'm a good person, and I'll just turn the other cheek and see what happens"?
Israel can never occupy Iran. Retaliation wont work. Likely graceful restaint wont work. Worth a shot...pun intended.
EGYPT and Israel learned to get along. By culture the Sunni Egyptions should be more difficult. Its possible the Iranian Shia can be brought into the world community. Olil wars an issue.
EGYPT and Israel learned to get along. By culture the Sunni Egyptions should be more difficult. Its possible the Iranian Shia can be brought into the world community. Olil wars an issue.
An escalating retaliation is exactly what Iran wants Israel to do.
Making Iran sweat is the correct move here. Take your time, make the next move count.
Making Iran sweat is the correct move here. Take your time, make the next move count.
The trick here however is how does Israel win convincingly at the moment? As significantly as they’re engaged in Gaza, and obviously they’re not going to launch a ground strike due to no shared border…if you feel Israel has to strike back here, and that they have to win convincingly, I’m not sure what that looks like.
Don’t attack Iranian generals in other countries?
Of course you aren't sure.
I'm convinced you've never been in even a simple physical fight in your life, and don't have a clue as to what that means. That's really good if that's true. That said, while everyone is entitled to an opinion, the only opinion that matters is that of the people who live in a place where everyone around them wants them destroyed.
Since Jews don't believe in him, I'm not sure it matters to them. But he would probably kick Mohammad in the nuts.
Wow, could you be any more condescending?
Feel free to respond to my question tho - what does it look like to you for Israel to beat Iran convincingly?
The trouble with your physical fight comment is that in that situation one can come to grips with their opponent. Unless Israel chooses to cross international borders and a whole other country, they can’t do that here, so both they and Iran are presumably limited to air strikes.
By NOT acting (at this time).
We really don't know if Iran "shot their best wad" with the weekends' attacks. Only Iran (and maybe to an extent Israel) knows that for certain. But the fact they apparently largely failed - and Israel didn't fall for the bait aspect of it - Iran also learned something about Israel's capabilities there.
Iran now has a pretty good idea what Israel can do with their defenses. What they don't know about their offensive capabilities can be used against them. My bet is Israel probably has a pretty good idea as to what they feel is their next step is - only a matter of how best to execute it.
Their next punch has to count. Just need some time to get all their ducks in a row, both militarily and politically - before they (if they decide to) throw it.
It may be weeks, even months, before Israel acts.
There has to be a calculated response. The Isreal defense system is fantastic, but had more missiles or drones gotten through it would have been massive destruction and death.
Condescending? No. I grew up in a tough environment, and I've been exposed to tough environments. I've been places where human predators take advantage of weak people. I've been taught that when attacked, do whatever you can to make sure your attacker never has the ability to hurt you again. It's just that simple, and it's scalable to nations.
Israel has been attacked multiple times this year from outside Israel. Do you really think they should just sit at their border to fight attacks from other countries?
They need to do whatever they can to destroy their attackers' ability to attack again.
I’m gonna let the Israelis decide what to do since it’s their existence on the line.
I know that’s a novel thought but hey that’s just reasonable to me.
I know that’s a novel thought but hey that’s just reasonable to me.
