Yesterday, Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation for the IDF’s killing of the leadership of Iran’s terrorist buddies in Hamas and Hezbollah.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/10/01/idf-iran-has-fired-missiles-at-israel-all-residents-ordered-to-bomb-shelters/

Fortunately, most of the missiles were intercepted and destroyed by Israel’s anti-missile defense system, and there were no reported casualties at this writing. However, at around the same time, there was a terrorist shooting attack at a train station in Jaffa that killed a young Israeli mother who was shielding her baby.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/israeli-mom-killed-jaffa-terror-attack-while-shielding-9-month-old-son-israel-says

Now, an ominous quiet has fallen, as Iran awaits Israel’s response. I can’t help wondering if the mullahs are feeling like the dog that kept chasing a car and barking at it until it finally caught the car and realized it was about to get flattened.

For years, Iran’s militant Islamist leaders have threatened to attack Israel. Well, now, they have. Launching a barrage of ballistic missiles at a sovereign state is known as an “act of war,” and it wasn’t launched by some terrorist surrogates like Hamas or Hezbollah, but by the Iranian government itself. It was a rash, foolish and possibly suicidal act. Israel would be perfectly justified in responding with overwhelming force, taking out Iran’s military bases, its nuclear facilities and more.

Just as with the celebrations over Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, I believe many Iranians would joyfully welcome Israel’s destruction of Iran’s war machine and the decapitation of their government, which uses that war machine to oppress its own people as much as it does to threaten its neighbors.

As Katie Pavlich reports, a clue that something bigger could be coming is that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu made a statement directed at the people of Iran, assuring them, “The people of Iran should know, Israel stands with you…When Iran is finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner than you think, everything will be different."

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/01/message-to-ayatollah-n2180023

Meanwhile, President Biden gave orders to the US military in the region to shoot down any Iranian missiles targeting Israel. And both presidential candidates made statements, neither of which did much to bolster confidence in our current leadership in the Middle East.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/01/heres-what-so-scary-about-kamalas-first-public-statement-about-iran-attacking-israel-n4932997

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-slams-biden-kamala-says-we-have-no-leadership-as-iran-attacks-israel