Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to protect Israel from its enemies, using whatever he can to do so. Could this mean that an Israeli strike against Iran may be possible?
According to Jennifer Griffin at Fox News, Israel may be targeting more than Hamas as it escalates its bombing campaign in Gaza and tries to eliminate the threat of increasingly lethal stockpiled rockets. Israel's real target may be Iran.
The escalation of fighting around Israel's borders may be a prelude to an Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear program.
Since Iran has threatened to attack Israel through proxy forces such as Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon should Israel move against Iran, it seems reasonable that as those groups make Israel's life miserable, the Jewish nation should weaken those groups before moving on Iran.
“Our problem is not our border with Gaza,” Israel’s Ambassador the United States Michael Oren told Fox News on Monday. “Among the rockets being fired at us are the Fajr 5 rockets, which come directly from Iran. We know that Hamas terrorists have trained with the Iranians -- there's a strong connection.”
The Israeli military refers to the Fajr 5 rockets, with their longer range and 385-pound payload, as game changers.
“They are Iranian-made, and about 100 of them were imported into Gaza via Sudan, it appears,” Jonathan Schanzer, from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said. “When the Israelis learned of the existence of these rockets, all it took was one provocation on the part of Hamas for Israel to go in and wipe out those rockets and those launchers.”
The provocation came on Wednesday, when Hamas fired a guided anti-tank rocket at an Israeli military jeep inside Israel.
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