By Blessing Chinagorom
The former Isreali Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett has analysized the reason why his country must respond to Iran’s 350 missile attacks on Israel on Saturday.
Bennett who on X, Sunday said, “When a bully tries to hit you 350 times and only succeeds seven time, you’ve NOT won. You don’t win wars just by intercepting your enemy’s hits, nor do you deter it.
“When you shoot 350 flying objects timed to hit Israel at the same moment, when you use three fundamentally different weapon types—cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and UAVs, you’re looking to penetrate Israel’s defenses and kill Israelis.
“The US administration is telling us: “This is a victory, you’ve already won by thwarting the missiles. No need for any further action.” The former Prime Minister responded that this is NOT a victory. “Yes, it’s a remarkable success of Israel’s air defense systems, but it’s not a victory”, he said.
Israeli ex-Prime Minister spelled it out that war can not be won just by intercepting the enemy’s hits, nor do deter it. “Your enemy will just try harder with more and better weapons and methods next time. How DO you deter? By exacting a deeply painful price.
“It’s incorrect to say “nobody got hurt”.
There’s a 7 year-old Israeli-Arab girl called Amina Elhasuny fighting for her life. That’s who coward Khamenei hit”.
He stated that the Islamic Republic of Iran made a big mistake, adding that for the past 30 years it’s been wreaking havoc on the region through its proxies. “A terror-octopus whose head is Tehran, and its tentacles are in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Gaza.
“How convenient. The Mullahs send others to conduct horrendous terror attacks, and die for them. Other people’s blood. Israel’s strategic mistake for the past 30 years was to play along this strategy.
“We always fought the Octopus’ arms, but hardly exacted a price from its Iranian head. This should change now: Hezbollah or Hamas shoots a rocket at Israel? Tehran pays a price”, the ex-Prime Minister disclosed.
He made it clear that the enemy is the Iranian Regime, not the wonderful Iranian people, adding that the Iranian regime reminds him of the Soviet regime in 1985: corrupt to the core, old, incompetent, despised by its own people, and destined to collapse.
“The sooner the better. The West can accelerate the regime’s inevitable collapse with a set of soft and clever actions, short of military force. Remember, USSR collapsed without any need for a direct American attack. Let’s do this.
Bennett noted that Israel is fighting everybody’s war. “In Gaza, Lebanon and Tehran. We’re considered “the small satan” by radical Islam. America is the big one.
“I’ll be clear: if these crazy fanatic Islamic terrorists get away with murder by hiding among civilians, this method will be adopted by terrorists worldwide.
“We’re not asking anyone to fight for us. We’ll do the job. But we do expect our allies to have our back, especially when it’s tough—and now it’s tough. Be on the right side and help us defeat these horrible and savage regimes”, former Israeli Prime Minister concluded.
Reacting to this post on X, Amy Alkon said, “Israel is doing the world’s most important janitorial work, and every politician like Biden, academic blowhard calling for Israel to tone it down, gets in the way of that. This is not just about Israel. It is a fight for Western civilization. For civilization, period.
“For a world where women have full rights and are not possessions of men, where little girls cannot be sold into marriage by their fathers at age 11 or 12, and where gay people live their lives openly, safely and peacefully instead of being hanged from cranes or thrown off buildings”.
It was reported that Iran on Saturday launched retaliatory attacks against Israel in a major new escalation in the Middle East, while this attack comes two weeks after Israel’s strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria.
Hundreds of drones along with cruise missiles as part of Iran’s attack launched against Israel and the Israeli Defense forces establishment estimates that the drones launched from Iran was expected to reach “Israel” early Sunday between 2:00 am and 4:00 am.
Dozens of surface-to-surface missile launched were identified approaching Israeli territory as the IDF Aerial Defense Array successfully intercepted the majority of the launches using the Arrow Aerial Defense System, together with Israel’s strategic allies, before the launches crossed into Israeli territory.
Isreali forces said that a small number of hits were identified, including at an IDF base in southern Israel, where minor damage was caused to infrastructure, adding that many dozens of hostile aircraft, as well as dozens of cruise missiles, identified approaching Israeli territory from Iran and intercepted.