Given that Israel seems to have already publicly committed to striking Iran, this is likely not the last time we will see exchanges of missiles,
The core fact remains that Iran has proven it can hit Israel hard if it so chose,
These oil refineries need to be hit and hit hard because that is the source of cash for the regime,
I think that the targets that will be selected, will be meticulously, very carefully selected,
The Israelis have already blown through any number of red lines that we laid down for them,
It would be unwise for outsiders to try to predict Israel's attack plan,
Whoever attacks us – we attack them,
I think that a strong response is inevitable. That doesn’t mean it was written in heaven a year ago that it’s going to happen,
I do not put the blame for the whole event on Netanyahu. This is basically the fault of Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran behind them,
You can cause certain damage, but even this might be perceived by some of the planners as worth the risk because the alternative is to sit idly by and do nothing,
There are some commentators and even some people within the defence establishment who raised the question: Why the hell not hit the nuclear military programme?”
I think we might see something like that. It might be a massive attack, and it could be repeated more than once,
Israel has a compelling need, even an imperative, to respond. I think that no sovereign nation on Earth could fail to respond,
That’s not the case right now, because Iran is a de facto threshold country,
Israel can damage Iran's nuclear program without US assistance, but it is unclear if it can by itself carry out the type of sustained and penetrating conventional attack that would seriously set back the program,
The Israelis are more likely to attack logistics lines to the Iranian nuclear programme, which can be achieved in the same hour-by-hour timeframe as their military activities are currently governed by,
The Israelis are going to do something similar now,
Israel alone can inflict serious damage to Iran's nuclear facilities, but it probably can't destroy the deepest-buried ones without US assistance,
The current situation serves as a sobering reminder of the delicate balance between the deterrent power and destabilizing impact that even a near-threshold nuclear capability can provide,
Back in April they were hit again by the Iranians. They kind of took it on the chin and walked away from that, and the Biden administration encouraged that,