As Israel deals devastating blows to Iran’s proxies in Gaza and Lebanon, direct conflict between the two foes now looks inevitable
A year after October 7, the nightmare scenario that the security establishment has warned of for decades is finally upon us. What began as an operation to destroy Hamas after the horrific massacre of Simchas Torah has become a multifront war that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East. And as Israel deals devastating blows to Iran’s proxies in Gaza and Lebanon, direct conflict between the two foes now looks inevitable.
Last week Iran launched 181 ballistic missiles at Israel in its “True Promise 2” operation, a spin-off of its failed April attack. The IDF says the Iranians didn’t hold back and used their best weapons, but thanks to chasdei Shamayim, adequate preparations, and responsible behavior by the public, not a single Israeli citizen was killed.
Effective air defenses also helped; 85 percent of the launches were intercepted or landed outside Israel’s borders, and only a few dozen missiles hit Israeli air bases, which suffered minor damage that didn’t impact their operational functioning. Not a single fighter plane was hit. The Iranians claimed to have fired hypersonic missiles, a laughable claim that was refuted by the IDF and international experts. The Iranians don’t possess such technology, and likely never will.
What do the Iranians have? Proxies. A lot of them.
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