The Long Arm of the Lawless

I think we’ve all known from the beginning that the crude rockets of Hamas and the crude roadside bombs would not stay crude.

At least when Israel is the target.

The problem in the region, as always, is Iran. The mullahs have the money to develop sophisticated weaponry, much moreso than Hamas or Islamic Jihad.

Now the Iranians have reportedly got a new high-tech drone that is lethal. Flying at 24,000 feet, at 130 miles per hour, the payload is a 600 lb. bomb. To add insult to injury, the device has a message in Hebrew: “Prepare your bombshelters.”

It can stay airborne for 24 hours and is similar in design to the American armed MQ-9 Reaper.

Named the Mohajer-10 (Farsi for “immigrant”), the drone was recently unveiled at a conference. The Iranians said that the drone could carry electronic surveillance equipment and a camera. Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also viewed the drone on Tuesday.

According to a report from Ynet News:

“’Today, we can firmly introduce Iran as an advanced and technologic nation to the world,’ Raisi said in comments aired on state television. He reiterated Iran’s stance about friendly relations with ‘all countries in the world,’ adding that Iran’s armed forces will cut off any hand that will reaches out in an attempt to invade Iran, state TV reported.

“The Associated Press could not immediately verify the claims about the drone’s capabilities, though an arm of state television shared a video of it taking off from a runway. Long-range drones like the Reaper also require ground stations and satellite communications.”

At the same time, an Iranian delegation was in Moscow to visit with Kremlin officials about their own drone program. Iran has supplied the Russians with drones in the fight in Ukraine.

For years, the Iranians (and other Western enemies) have attempted to recover or steal American drones. It’s thought that the country has obtained pieces of drones; in 2011, Iran got control of an RQ-170 Sentinel, a CIA drone that was monitoring Iranian nuclear sites. Launched from Afghanistan, the drone was reverse-engineered by Iran.

In 2019, Iran shot down a U.S. Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk in the Strait of Hormuz amid high tensions over its collapsed nuclear deal with world powers.

Iran is up to more mischief than this, though. This week, an Israeli mother was shot to death near Hebron, in front of her 12-year-old daughter. Netanyahu visited the site and had this to say:

“We are in the middle of a terrorist onslaught that is encouraged, guided, and funded by Iran and its proxies. A significant portion of this wave of terrorism came from external guidance.”

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant added this:

“It is important to understand the significant change that is taking place on the ground – it is related to Iranian funding, and to the proliferation of weapons under the Iranian directive. Iran seeks every means to harm the citizens of Israel.”

In a report from the Jerusalem Post:

“Their decision to accuse Iran is important because it shows how the defense and security establishment is increasingly convinced that Iran is behind the increased attacks in the West Bank. This extends beyond what is already known about Iran’s backing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hamas. Iran’s hand is seeking to inflame the West Bank. This is also linked to the smuggling of weapons in the West Bank, as the statement noted ‘proliferation of weapons.’”

Iran is also working hard to transfer weapons into Judea and Samaria, something Israel hasn’t seen before. Lately, there have been dozens of terror attacks daily in that area.

Still another front for Iran is to encourage the Syrian regime at the expense of Saudi Arabia, seeking a severing of any ties between Israel and the Saudis, so that Iran continues to exert influence in the region. The overall goal is to threaten Israel on as many fronts as possible.

It’s pathetic that human beings expend so much energy for evil. We that love Israel expend much energy in praying for her and against her evil foes.

Endangering Your Own Country

It shocks me more than almost anything related to Israel in the last 30 years.

Of all the threats to Israel’s sovereignty, I never thought it would come quite so much from within. Like most impregnable armies, Israel is not likely to be defeated on the battlefield. Better to attack from within.

When news broke a while back that some reservists were refusing to serve due to their dislike of Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reform efforts, I was blown away like many others were. What is this? We aren’t talking about France or Brazil or even the Arab countries. This is Israel, a nation of survivors from millennia-old attacks. One of the pristine features of Zionism is that it holds that Jews have a right to defend themselves in their own land. For 2,000 years they were vulnerable precisely because that option was unavailable.

As most of you know, Netanyahu is attempting to beat back the leftist judiciary in his country. Similar to what we are dealing with in America. Think Netanyahu is blowing smoke about being attacked by his leftist enemies? Try getting slapped with multiple bogus indictments as a (*former) president in the U.S.?

Think globalist agendas don’t exist? Think those are conspiracy stories?

Netanyahu has been fighting the same entity for almost 30 years.

According to the Times of Israel:

“The Israeli Air Force has suspended several high-ranking reservists, a Friday report said, a day after the Navy suspended a senior reservist who had vowed to halt volunteer duty to protest the government’s judicial overhaul.

“IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar agreed to suspend the service of several brigadier generals, the Kan public broadcaster reported, apparently following the lead of the Navy, which suspended Rear Adm. (res.) Ofer Doron on Thursday.”

A vice admiral named David Sa’ar Salama has given up his volunteer reserve duty, because he said he refuses to “live in a dictatorship.” Wow.

Do you see how leftists work? They work to build a dictatorship, then they accuse their ideological foes of being the ones building the totalitarian web. It’s common knowledge that Israel’s judiciary is infected with socialists and worse. Slowly over time, and with help from Western friends, Israel’s political elites have been moving the country into harm’s way. It’s exactly the same situation we have, with our ruling elites in Washington making decisions that directly threaten our country.

Netanyahu decided to take on this cabal. And they mean to hang him for it. As the man most responsible for Israel’s security, he realized a devastating situation existed within. So he took on yet another major challenge.

The revolt is a grave one, “sparking fears within the military of harm to its operational preparedness.”

It is predicted that at least 10,000 reservists will not show up for duty, in protest of the overhaul.

“Netanyahu’s coalition has rejected the reservists’ protests as a dangerous and unprecedented form of political blackmail by the military. Some coalition lawmakers suggested the protests are tantamount to an attempted military coup.

“Security officials voiced concern on Monday that, by allowing repeated public attacks on top military brass, Netanyahu was trying to shift responsibility onto them over the current harm to the state of military readiness.”

Whatever the outcome, and let’s hope this is short-term, Israel has been breached in new ways by the same diabolical entity that threatens the rest of the West. Globalists will stop at nothing to take down the last bastions of freedom.

Let us continue to pray for Israel in her unique situation.

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