COMMENTARY / OPINION
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‘Death to Israel’: The Iranian plan to attack Israel Dr. Mordechai Kedar
If the Israeli public wants to survive, it must prepare—mentally and physically—for war with the Iranian octopus. Op-ed.
Apr 14, 2023, 9:25 AM (GMT+3) – (JNS) I hesitated quite a bit whether to publish this piece because of the panic it might cause in Israel. However, in the Middle East environment and particularly in Iraq, these things are known and serve as a topic of open discussion, so it is unthinkable that the Israeli public should not be aware of them as well, especially since they concern Israelis much more than the citizens of Iraq.
A source I’ve known for years—an expatriate from the Middle East, a supporter of Israel, who lives in Europe and is in continuous contact with people in Iran and Iraq—conveyed to me their assessment that Iran plans to launch a combined attack on Israel in the foreseeable future that will include all the forces at its disposal in several Arab countries:
In Lebanon: Hezbollah and Hamas, with many thousands of missiles, some of them precision-guided, and UAVs.
In Syria: seventeen armed and ready combat units (“militias”): Fatimiun, Zinbioun, Nujabaa’, Hezbollah, Abu Al-Fadhl Brigade, ‘Asaa’b Ahl al-Haq, Khorasani Brigade and more. Iran has transferred a very large number of missiles and UAVs to Syria, and these are ready to be launched.
In Iraq: dozens of militias, armed with missiles and UAVs.
In Yemen: The Houthis, who have Iranian long-range missiles and UAVs capable of reaching Israel.
In Gaza: Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, with missiles capable of disabling the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli Air Force bases.
It is likely that Iran will not launch anything directly from its own territory, so as not to expose itself to retaliation.
So much for the assessment that came to me from Iraq.
What follows is my interpretation:
Pesach 1943: The importance of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising Dr. Alex Grobman
The brave but doomed Jewish revolt against the Nazis began on Passover Eve.
Apr 13, 2020, 12:01 AM – Yisrael Gutman, a leading Holocaust scholar, noted that before 1942, the Jewish underground in Nazi occupied Eastern Europe did not genuinely view armed resistance as an option. Why? The Jews had very few resources available to mount attacks, and armed resistance would not have aided them in their immediate need to survive or advance their political situation in the future. Additionally, military attacks would not have weakened the Nazi military; they would have provoked severe mass reprisals, resulting in the murder of significant numbers of Jews.
Misplaced Jewish Faith in the Goodness of Mankind
In The Holocaust Kingdom: A Memoir, Alexander Donat explained that the Jews were not psychologically prepared for armed resistance. Initially they did not believe the Resettlement Operation to be “what in fact it was, systematic slaughter of the entire Jewish population.” For generations, Eastern European Jewry had considered “Berlin as the symbol of law, order, and culture.”
The Jews “fell victim to our faith in mankind,” Donat asserted. “Our belief that humanity had set limits to the degradation and persecution of one’s fellow man.” This attitude shaped the decision by the overwhelmingly majority of the Jewish leadership in Warsaw to vote against armed resistance at the very beginning of the Resettlement, which began during the summer of 1942.
