Hasiera, propaganda pixka bat:
Nevatim Air Base: Let’s start by crushing rumors. Satellite imagery confirms the Air Base took minor damage. Israel released footage of aircraft landing on it today. …
Iran failed. They did not shut it down. They did not level it. It is not destroyed. I encourage you to find the one place were a ballistic missile actually struck. It’s there, but very hard to even spot.
Tag all the pro Palestinian and pro Iranian supporters in the comment section to see if they will finally shut up about this place being leveled.
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Moshe Schwart@YWNReporter·
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New low resolution satellite imagery shows what appears to be 1 impact area from an Iranian missile strike on the Nevatim air base in southern Israel. Ignore the shadows from the few pesky clouds.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779514085844877361
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Facts:
Square this: the IDF openly says several (i.e., more than one) Iranian missiles hit Nevatim.
You cite a pro-Israel (i.e., bias) “OSINT” X post using extremely low resolution overhead to gloat about your assessment of the efficacy of the Iranian attack.
You make claims about the destruction of Nevatim that the Iranians never made. They simply say that 5-7 missiles hit the base, something Israel admits.
You ignore the fact that Iran was not seeking a knockout blow, but rather a demonstration of capability.
You also ignore the fact that Nevatim was defended by the world’s most advanced integrated anti-missile defense shield which incorporated Arrow 2, David’s Sling, THAAD, and Patriot 3 with the AN/TPY-2 X-band surveillance and targeting radar. You also ignore the fact that this system was designed to exclusively defend against the Iranian medium-range ballistic missile threat.
And yet…5-7 missiles hit Nevatim. The Israelis have acknowledged 2 runways and three warehouse structures hit.
Not a knockout blow—it wasn’t intended as such.
But any BDA expert would note that the point of impact was center mass, a clear indication of precision guidance.
5-7 missiles hit the world’s most heavily defended location, defeating an integrated ABM defense that was custom built to defeat the missiles it failed to shoot down.
The point of this exercise is to note that if Iran had send 30 missiles at Nevatim, the base would be inoperable. I
srael knows this.
So does the U.S. Army.
Which is why Iran has achieved strategic deterrence over Israel.
Which was the whole point of the operation.
Gehiago...
Irony is well and truly dead. Israel accuses Iran of “a flagrant violation of international law”.
twitter.com/SuppressedNws/status/1779517032838381777/video/1
Which is not even true by the way. Iran had a right of self defense following article 51 of the UN Charter after the Israeli strike on its consulate. They only targeted military sites and didn’t kill a single person.
Whereas Israel’s attack on the Iranian consulate was of course a flagrant violation of international law, as it was an almost unprecedented breach of the Vienna Convention on the inviolability of diplomatic premises.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779536879215628642
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If you didn’t condemn the attack on #Iranian Embassy in Damascus you should stay silent now. To say “this is an unprecedented escalation + a grave threat to regional security” is total nonsense, more hypocrisy from the #EU – The dogs in the street know #Israel is the problem…
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Josep Borrell Fontelles@JosepBorrellF
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The EU strongly condemns the unacceptable Iranian attack against Israel. This is an unprecedented escalation and a grave threat to regional security.
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Rishi Sunak says Iran’s strikes on Israel “risk inflaming tensions and destabilising the region”. Sunak has ordered four waves of air strikes on Yemen since January, firing dozens of missiles.
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Iran DID NOT target any schools, any hospitals, any churches or any synagogues, unlike the israelis, says @Akhipotter_who hit anything
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779473354698666074
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Biden condemns Iran 
for responding to the BOMBING and MURDER of its top military brass by Israel 
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Biden has not once condemned Israel for its genocide of Palestinians. Rather, he’s supported it.
Biden is one of the most ghoulish war criminals in modern history.
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Iran’s attack wasn’t unprovoked.
It’s Israel that wants a wider war.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779600221669921124
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Labour strongly condemn Irans reckless attack on Israel and how it fuels the risk of escalation.
Except Labour didn’t strongly condemn Israels reckless attack on Iran (when they bombed the Iranian consulate). Didn’t that fuel the risk of escalation?
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779422205572464849
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.@antonioguterres Iran has violated the UN charter and has shown that it is a threat to global peace and security. Where is your voice??
Where is your condemnation??
Wake up!!!
Article 51.
Of course, to comprehend that, you’d have to give a damn about international law.
But you’re the ambassador of a genocidal criminal enterprise.
Maybe now you understand why no one supports the cancerous mass that is Israel, but rather its excision
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Russia at the UN today:
“What happened on the night of April 14 did not happen in a vacuum. Iran’s steps were a response to the shameful inaction of the UN and a response to Israel’s attack on Damascus. Syria is constantly being bombed by Israel.”
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779664292746285392
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The U.S. has an advanced AN/TPY-2 X-band radar stationed at Har Qeren, in the Negev desert.
Its mission is to detect Iranian missile launches, and pass targeting data to Israeli Arrow and David’s Sling and U.S. THAAD ABM batteries deployed to protect sensitive Israeli sites, including Dimona and the Nevatim and Ramon air bases.
Iranian missiles struck both Nevatim and Ramon air bases.
The best surveillance radar in the world, working in concert with the most sophisticated anti-missile defenses in the world, were impotent in the face of the Iranian attack.
For all those trying to spin yesterday’s events as an Israeli victory, chew on that fact:
The best missile defense system in the world could not protect the sites they were tasked with protecting from attacks by Iranian missiles.
Who has deterrence supremacy?
It ain’t Israel.
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BREAKING: UN SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES OFFICIAL STATEMENT
“Diplomatic premises have immunity and Israel violated this principle by attacking the Iranian conslate.”
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779615956819378565
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The irony of Netanyahu hiding in a bunker under residential housing during Iran’s strikes…
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This is an amazing story by @talshalev1: Ahead of a possible attack from Iran Netanyahu moved over the weekend to the house of Simon Falic in Jerusalem which according to previous reports has a fortified bunker. Falic is a U.S. billionaire, a GOP donor and the owner of Duty Free America. Netanyahu stayed at his house at the beginning of the war after rockets were fired on Jerusalem
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Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
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ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו ורעייתו שרה שהו בסוף השבוע בבית משפחת המיליארדר סיימון פאליק בירושלים. מדובר בווילת יוקרה בה, כך לפי דיווחים, ישנו מקלט מתקדם נגד טילים, מדווחת @talshalev1 https://news.walla.co.il/item/3657842?u
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Concerned Citizen@BGatesIsaPyscho
Putin on Middle East Conflict
“They (US/West) do not want durable peace in the Holy Land”
“They need chaos in the Middle East”
Remember what Julian Assange said about endless banker wars?
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779414948109516870
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An Israeli govt spokesman is asked about Israel bombing the Iranian consulate in Syria (a violation of intl law). He says hes not prepared to talk about that attack, but then attempts to minimise the bombing by claiming it wasnt a consular building & the people killed deserved it
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779437204130939032
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I told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that Netanyahu will stand down and refrain from escalating matters with Iran further IF Biden is very firm with him and makes it abundantly clear that the US will not accept Israel starting a regional war.
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IRAN WARNS ISRAEL AT UNITED NATIONS: “If Israel wants to continue its evil operations, it will receive a response dozens of times stronger. We will not hesitate to defend ourselves and reveal a small part of our deterrent power.
We targeted Israeli military sites in the attack and there are no other operations on our agenda. We took minimal punitive measures and avoided targeting economic facilities and infrastructure.”
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George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely
Blatant and unjustifiable? You missed “unprovoked.” What is the matter with this imbecile?
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I strongly condemn Iran‘s blatant and unjustifiable attack on Israel. And I call on Iran and its proxies to immediately cease these attacks. All actors must now refrain from further escalation and work to restore stability in the region.
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Their IRANIAN HATRED is BOUGHT & PAID FOR by ISRAEL!
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Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
UK govt minister is asked if Israel consulted anyone before they bombed the Iranian consulate building in Damascus. The minister says she can’t answer that. #TrevorPhillips asks another question about the Israeli attack, and the minister avoids answering again.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779418865484595248
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IRAN killed 0 ISRAELIS.
ISRAEL killed 30,000 PALESTINIANS.
Why is the ENTIRE WESTERN WORLD CONDEMNING IRAN, instead of ISRAEL?
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Going Underground@GUnderground_TV
‘We’re witnessing a show of hypocrisy, it is embarrassing to watch’
Russia slams the US and its western allies for not condemning Israel’s bombing of Iran’s Embassy in Damascus, but condemning Iran for retaliating.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779626193446117862
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Iran says its first-ever direct attack on Israel was revenge for Israel’s targeting of the Iranian consulate in Syria.
Tehran says its retaliatory attack has ‘concluded’ but warns of a harsher response next time if Israel strikes again 
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779501108953506042
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Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major Gen. Bagheri, detailed the retaliatory attack against targets in the occupied territories, saying the Israeli regime failed to intercept Iran’s projectiles in a meaningful way, and the operation achieved its goals.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779419029154734330
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The president of Israel justifies bombing the consulate of another country in a third country by claiming the attack in Damascus wasn’t a consular building & the target deserved to be killed. Israel is a terrorist state.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779517853365936575
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I dare anyone intellectually honest to find a single lie in this UN speech by Iran. I personally couldn’t.
By contrast you have countries like the US, UK, France and Germany calling their attack “unjustifiable and highly irresponsible” (in the German Chancellor’s words), which relies on everyone forgetting it was made in retaliation to Israel bombing the Iranian consulate (meaning there was a strong legal justification for the strike), and relies on everyone not looking at the reality of an attack which only targeted military sites and didn’t kill a single person (meaning it was responsible).
Thinking about it, maybe more than anything, this might have been one of the key reasons for the way Iran conducted its strike. A strike, yet another one, on Israel and the West’s credibility, designed to expose the mental gymnastics needed to maintain their narrative. And the West, again, fell right into that trap.
War, at the end of the day, is a battle of wills. Military strength is almost secondary: as we’ve seen time and time again the side with the strongest commitment, the side that feels their cause is the most righteous, wins. This is why, for instance, Vietnam and Afghanistan both won against the US despite the gigantic differential in sheer strength.
And this is why more and more people, including extremely prominent voices in Israel itself, are starting to say that Israel has lost the war: because in the words of a famous Haaretz journalist who wrote that “Israel Has Been Defeated – a Total Defeat”
(https://haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-11/ty-article-magazine/.premium/saying-what-cant-be-said-israel-has-been-defeated-a-total-defeat/0000018e-cdab-dba9-a78e-efef6ba10000) it’s become “internationally ostracized”, meaning the world at large has become convinced that
the Palestinian side is the righteous one.
Iran’s strike further advances this international ostracization. It makes anyone with basic common sense tell themselves “ok, that was actually… a very reasonable response” and makes those acting as if that response was disproportionate or unprovoked sound like liars at best, deranged lunatics at worst.
We often say we live in a post-truth world, which in many respects is true. But if all this demonstrates anything, it is that losing that commitment to truth has immense and very real security implications.
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COMBATE |
@upholdreality
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Iran at the UN: “Iran has warned time and again about the consequences of the malicious activities of the regime on regional and international peace and security. Iran has exercised maximum restraint. Now it is time for the occupying regime to bear full responsibility for its consequences.”
“For over six months now, the US, UK and France, especially the United States, have shielded Israel from any responsibility for the Gaza massacre, while they have denied Iran’s inherent right to self-defense against the Israeli armed attack on our diplomatic premises. At the same time, they shamefully justified the Israeli massacre and genocide against the defenseless Palestinian people under the pretext of self-defense.”
“Iran’s operation was entirely in the exercise of Iran’s inherent right to self-defense, as outlined in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations and recognized by international law. This concluded action was necessary and proportionate.”
The absence of accountability and constant inaction faced with the Israeli genocide and war crimes against the Palestinian people has only emboldened this regime to continue its violation unchecked.
The US and its allies have blocked the Security Council for over six months, protecting Israel from accountability for the Gaza massacre. They not only avoid condemning Israel for these atrocities, but also actively try to cover up them. Their sole priority is supporting and defending Israel, regardless of the consequences and at all costs.”
“Iran has no intention of engaging in conflict with the U.S. in the region. We demonstrated our commitment to peace by exercising our restraint about involving the U.S. Army in intercepting Iranian drones and bombs for military targets in the occupied Palestinian territories. This underscores our dedication to de-escalating tension and avoiding the expansion of conflict.
However, if the U.S. initiates a military operation against Iran, its citizens, or its security and interests, Iran will use its inherent right to respond proportionately.”
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1779637316857864193
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Forthcoming…
Scott will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 151 of Ask the Inspector.
