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Why Would Israel Reportedly Have Missiles That Reach Beyond Iran
Last week, Israel tested what foreign reports said was a nuclear-capable Jericho missile amid reports that Iran has deployed its own missiles in Iraq, 400 km from Israel
Smoke from an Israeli missile test.
Last Friday, Israel’s Defense Ministry laconically announced that it had carried a test launch of a “rocket engine propulsion system.”
Foreign reports claimed that the test was of a surface-to-surface Jericho missile. Though the Defense Ministry said that the test was planned in advance, it was hard to ignore the timing and not to interpret it as a warning and threat directed at Iran. Indeed, its foreign minister, Javad Zarif, complained in a tweet that while Western democracies accuse his country of secret intentions to develop nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them them, Israel is actually the only country in “Western Asia” (in his words) that possess nuclear weapons and develops missiles for delivering them.
In the background are reports that Iran has deployed missiles in Iraq, 400 kilometers from Israel, and Yemen, 2,000 kilometers away. A letter sent by Germany, France and the U.K. to the UN secretary general accused Iran of having the capability to develop missiles equipped with nuclear warheads in violation of the Missile Technology Control Regime. According to the letter, a MTRC breach occurs when a missile can carry a 500-kilogram warhead with a range of 300 kilometers. Last April, Iran was seen testing the Shahab-3 missile, which fits such a definition. But the Jericho has similar capabilities, based on foreign reports.
Israel has an arsenal of sea, air and ground rockets and missiles for interception and offensive purposes, whose existence it acknowledges. For the sake of this article, let’s only focus on its land-based arsenal. It has short-range (up to 50 kilometers) rockets like the Tamuz, which have been occasionally used against targets in Syria and Lebanon.
Former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman advocated the creation of a missile command meant to extend the range of surface-to-surface projectiles to 200 kilometers, in order to improve the military's firepower and to provide the Air Force with an additional tool. But the military, including former Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, objected to the notion and killed the initiative. The military has a long tradition of rejecting new ideas and “out the box” thinking. So, for example, the military, and especially the air force, opposed the creation of systems to protect civilian infrastructure, including the Iron Dome system.
The military has the Iron Dome's interception missiles (with a range of up to 70 km), David’s Sling (up to 200 kilometers, although its operational capabilities are still flawed), U.S.-made Patriots (up to 80 kilometers), and the Arrow 2 and 3 (over 300 kilometers). An Arrow 4 model, which uses multiple warheads, is reportedly under development. The Arrow 3 is a missile that flies above the atmosphere (according to foreign reports, at a height of over 100 kilometers) and is made for intercepting ballistic missiles far from Israel's borders.
Yet Israel has never admitted that it possesses Jericho missiles. According to foreign reports, these missiles were developed from a French-made missile type. In 1957, Shimon Peres, then a senior Defense Ministry official, was present when France conducted a nuclear missile test in Algeria.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...iran-1.8251584
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we are getting closer to Armageddon
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"We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: 'Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.' I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under." Martin van Creveld - Israeli strategist and historian in David Hirst's The Gun and the Olive Branch (2003)
Israel has been building nuclear weapons for 30 years. The Jews understand what passive and powerless acceptance of doom has meant for them in the past, and they have ensured against it. Masada was not an example to follow—it hurt the Romans not a whit, but Samson in Gaza? What would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter. Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to join us in the ovens? For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away—unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans—have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice? -- "American" Jewish author Ron Rosembaum (How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III) - continuing: Israel could "bring down the pillars of the world (attack Moscow and European capitals for instance)" as well as the "holy places of Islam."
And the cucked Germans sign our and their death sentence by supplying them with the submarines and the technology.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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This is not some significant top notch technology. Jericho 3 is a 3 stage converted SLV (space launching vehicle) Shavit which itself came from Apartheid South Africa. Iranian Sejjil II or Khorramshahr IRBMs have equivalent ranges with same amount of payload. Iran can also convert its own Ghaem SLV with a reentry vehicle. Warhead can be conventional or CBRN (Chemical Biological Radiation Nuclear) depends upon politics not capability.
Tough times.
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Most of them in Iran are religious. Nonsense. Shia and sunni are very similar. In the netherlands I met religious Iranians. The main difference is that the shia are on the side of Ali who belongs to the family of the prophet muhammed. There are some differences in oral traditions between sunni and shia. But they are mostly the same. I studied with some Iraqi shia and they are very similar. Islam has different kind of branches. The problem is that muslims nowedays are very influenced by this wahabi / salafi sect funded by the rich saudis who says that any other branch of islam is falsehood and that their path is the truth.
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