There is a discussion regarding Israel’s defense against an attack from Iran
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Jeffrey Lewis, who is on the international security advisory board, said on the website X that Iran was using land-attack cruise missiles that could carry a ton of explosives.
The weapons used by Iran on Saturday can travel a long way, and some of them can travel fast. Israel said that 99% of the missiles and drones that Iran fired were taken out by its forces.
US officials have said that Iran has launched more than 150 missiles at Israel. The Iron Dome was able to intercept a missile, but a boy was hurt by it.
According to his post, different versions of that missile have also been provided to the Houthis in Yemen and to the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces.
If it does respond to the unprecedented Iranian attack — itself carried out in retaliation for a strike on an Iranian Embassy building in Syria that killed top commanders in Iran’s armed forces — Israel must weigh whether to do so in proportion to the actual results of the Iranian assault, which was largely blocked by air defenses and caused little damage, or to consider what could have happened if more than 300 drones and missiles had actually hit Israel.
Governments in the Middle East, including Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, also issued statements expressing concern and calling for restraint so as not to exacerbate tensions in the region.
The United Nations Secretary-General was alarmed by the danger of a devastating region-wide escalation after Iran’s attack.
In a statement Sunday, G7 leaders said that Iran had further destabilized the region and that they stood in solidarity with Israel. Canada, Italy, Britain,France, Germany, Japan, and the European Union make up the G7.
Republicans also aim to include language that “holds Iran and its terrorist proxies accountable,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise announced in a statement released Saturday night.
In Congress, House Republicans are making changes to their legislative schedule for this week to consider a yet-to-be-revealed proposal that would further support Israel.
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Biden told Netanyahu that the US would not take part in offensive operations against Iran, according to the defense official. Biden has made clear that he doesn’t want the conflict to expand into a broader war.
99% of the attacks launched by Iran and its proxies were intercepted outside of Israeli airspace, according to the Israeli military. The U.S., France, Jordan, and the U.K. aided in taking down the Iranian weapons.
Iranian officials said the attack was in response to the air strike on the Iran’s annex in Damascus, Syria. Two generals and six other Iranian military officials were killed.
On Sunday, a senior Iranian military official said Iran’s “operation” against Israel had ended and there would be no more attacks coming, according to Iranian state media.
The U.S. and Israel worked together to make sure their air defenses were prepared for the attack. The U.S. official described the Iranian bombardment as being at a high end of what both the U.S. and Israel expected.
Israel’s most advanced air defense system, the Arrow 3, provided the main protection against Iran’s ballistic missiles. The Arrow 3 has been around several years, but had never faced an onslaught like this before.
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Still, several people suffered from shrapnel wounds after the attack, including a 7-year old Bedouin girl who underwent surgery due to a head wound, the Times of Israel and Haaretz reported. Hagari confirmed the reports.
Iran notified the U.S. that the strike would not target American personnel, according to the country’s foreign minister. U.S. officials said there was no notification from Iran before the attack on the targets.
Israel said it struck a site in southern Lebanon used to make weapons for Hezbollah.
Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire across the border since an attack by Gazans on October 7. Iran has long supplied Hamas with funds and weapons but the White House has not directly linked Iran to the Oct. 7 attack.
Iran had no other choice but to exercise its inherent right to self-defense under international law, according to Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations. “We don’t seek war in the region, and don’t want to start a conflict with the U.S,” Iravani said.
As Israel’s leaders continued on Monday to mull a possible response to the massive Iranian aerial attack over the weekend, they faced several choices, all of which carry their own risks.
He is unpopular at home and many blame his government for the fact that it led to the war in Gaza. Abroad, he is the focus of international censure over Israel’s prosecution of that war, which has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Gazans.
Iran launched a bombardment on Sunday in response to an Israeli attack on an Iranian embassy building in Damascus that killed several commanders in Iran’s armed forces.
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“The story is split into two narratives, like everything in Israel in the last few years” said Mualem, who is an Israeli political commentator for Al-Monitor a Middle East news site.
Regardless of what comes next, Ms. Mualem, the Netanyahu biographer, said, “Bibi is still in the game,” referring to him by his nickname. It is not over, diplomatically or politically, and he is a central player. And he plays a long game.”
But it was also under Mr. Netanyahu’s watch that Israel forged diplomatic relations with more Arab states that are considered part of the moderate, anti-Iranian axis, including the United Arab Emirates.
Sometimes resorting to stunts and antics to draw attention to Iran’s nuclear progress is what Mr. Netanyahu does. At the United Nations General Assembly he held up a drawing depicting a bomb with red lines, and it was cartoonish. He claims that an Iranian sega sent from Syria was shot down by Israel and that a piece of it was presented to him at the security conference.
Jeremy Issacharoff, a former ambassador to Germany and point man in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that he was talking about it everywhere he traveled.
He further challenged Mr. Obama in 2015 with an impassioned speech to a joint meeting of Congress denouncing what he called a “bad deal” being negotiated by the United States and other world powers with Iran to curb its nuclear program.
When President Donald J. Trump came to power, Mr. Netanyahu encouraged him to withdraw from the agreement — a move that many Israeli experts have called a dire mistake and a failure of Mr. Netanyahu’s Iran policy.
The Airborne Defense of the UaS: What Are They Really Trying To Tell Us About the Space-Based Drones and Their Interceptors?
The US military has confirmed that it has shot down a number of Iranian drones and will continue doing so. The UK has said it will provide backup for US planes that have been diverted from their existing missions, and that it will intercept UAVs as well.
“Because there’s so much indication of warning in advance of the UAS, presumably there’s going to be a lot of fixed-wing, manned aircraft that are looking at these things, tracking these things, and presumably trying to engage these things,” says Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy think tank.
There are plenty of opportunities to intercept the UAS, because of the slow flight path and fixed flight path.
They are easy to take down at one level. They’re not stealthy, they don’t fly very fast, and they don’t maneuver,” says David Ochmanek, senior defense analyst at the nonprofit RAND Corporation. “In some way they’re like airborne targets.”
The Iron Dome is the best line of defense, but it’s not the only factor. Shahed-136 drones may have played a significant role in Russia’s war against Ukranian. The so-called suicide drones, which have built in warhead and are designed to crash into targets, are relatively cheap to produce.
“All of that process was designed for defense against low-flying, fast-moving missiles,” says Iain Boyd, director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado. Which also makes it extremely well-prepared for an onslaught of drones. “A drone is going to be flying probably slower than these rockets,” Boyd says, “so in some ways it’s an easier threat to address.”
The Iron Dome, operational for well over a decade, comprises at least 10 missile-defense batteries strategically distributed around the country. When radar detects incoming objects, it sends that information back to a command-and-control center, which will track the threat to assess whether it’s a false alarm, and where it might hit if it’s not. The incoming rockets seem to be most likely to hit an inhabited area after the system fires interceptor missiles.
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But other Israelis are urging restraint or so-called “strategic patience,” wary, among other things, of taking the nation’s focus away from its war with Hamas in Gaza, the efforts to release its scores of hostages there and its skirmishes with Hezbollah along its northern border, as well as the risk of setting off a broader regional conflict without international support.
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