Have you looked at Iran on a map? Map of the world, obviously, a map of greater Stevenage probably won’t show it. Iran is fucking massive. It is pretty much the entire north-east quadrant of the Middle East. It is 79 times larger than Israel (Alexa told me) and has a population of 90 million. 89.6 million of whom are really lovely, nice, intelligent people, totally repressed, bullied, controlled and harassed by a government they never wanted. Because it’s not a ‘government’ but an Islamist Ideological bunch of barbaric savages, sworn to the destruction of Israel. The remainder of the population are the government, the army and those employed to protect the ‘values’ of the nation. Like the ‘morality police’ who take great offence at the incorrect deployment of a headscarf, as being a deeply immoral act, whereas murdering young women somehow enhances this version of ‘morality’. Women have no rights there, men don’t have many. Unless they’re part of the ‘regime’ in which case they have total impunity. Western music has been banned there since the revolution. A once wonderfully cultured nation, heavily engaged in the arts, now wastes its time praying to the sort of God who approves of murder, death and warfare. The Ayatollah is a nob. Yet that understates his danger, not just to Israel but to world stability. He hates America, sees Israel as an American proxy, hates everything Western and his deepest wish, as for most religious leaders, is to have a nuclear bomb. But he can’t have one, despite Barak Obama’s attempts to facilitate such a thing. They have the missiles, already labelled ‘Tel Aviv’, they have everything in place, except sufficiently enriched Uranium. But being very pally with Russia and North Korea, that’s only a matter of time. There are very few people in Iran clever enough to build that bomb, mainly because Israel have been assassinating them along the way.

Meanwhile, in the absence nuke potential, they don’t have much else to bring to the party. Because they don’t fight their own wars and feel greatly empowered by sheer size and population, they haven’t built missile defences, nor do they possess any sophisticated arms capability. It is reckoned that their attack on Israel represented ‘their entire load’. It wasn’t ‘moderated’ as they stated, it was all they could do in the circumstances as they have nothing more to offer.

Unlike Israel. Which has enough for everybody. And better than everyone else’s.

I’m deeply torn between thinking, as I initially did after Saturdays night’s strike, that Israel should see that as a satisfactory ending. A failed missile attack, brilliantly defended and defeated. Leave it be. And thinking now that I want, not revenge, but a proper ‘statement’ to Iran.

And immediately, the world started to view Israel in a slightly different light from the one of the last 6 months in which all the virtue-signalling, apparently-liberal, moronic sheep collectively failed to read between the lines of the Hamas-led PR bullshit and lived only for shouting ‘genocide’ and ‘ceasefire’ without understanding the meaning of either within the current context.

Now, as ‘victims of an attack’, Israel becomes more heroic. And as the entire Arab world has rallied to Israel’s side, because Iran represents a great threat to all of them, people are actually re-thinking the whole Middle East thing. With Iran, who for years have in fact been at war with Israel via Hamas, via Hezbollah (who have 150,000 Iranian missiles) and via the Houthis. Thus Israel ‘prodded the bear’. Basically saying: ‘come on then, if ya think yer ‘ard enough. Come out and fight’. And you know what; Iran is not ‘hard enough’. Not for a war with Israel. And it knows it.

Bomb the oil refineries (sorry, Greta), and bomb the missile factories and bomb the nuclear facilities. I’m right behind you. Top Gun style.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx