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Biden officials are worried Iran may plan to hit targets in Israel as payback for attack that killed Iranian general
NBC 'News' via MSN ^ | 4/05/24 | Carol E. Lee, Courtney Kube

Posted on 04/07/2024 3:55:27 PM PDT by Libloather

WASHINGTON — Biden administration officials are concerned that Iran may be planning to hit targets inside Israel in retaliation for the Israeli airstrikes in Syria this week that killed several senior Iranian officials, according to two U.S. officials.

The officials said any retaliation inside of Israel is expected to focus on military or intelligence targets, rather than civilians. They also said the administration has begun considering options for how to respond to various possible retaliatory moves by Iran.

Iran has threatened to retaliate, saying the building destroyed was a consular building and therefore was an attack on Iran itself.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Hamas; Iran; Israel; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bible; bibleprophecy; ezekiel38; iran; israel; payback; prophecy; targets
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To: Jim Noble

Take tour blood libel and shove it.


21 posted on 04/07/2024 4:46:30 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: lee martell

I highly doubt that Iran will attack derectly. They are content to use proxies.


22 posted on 04/07/2024 4:47:40 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: Libloather

You don’t say.


23 posted on 04/07/2024 4:48:58 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Libloather

Incredible! Does the American media realize that Israel is very capable and probably for years has been war-gaming a response to an Iran attack? Before Iran attacks Israel Tehran must try to discern how Israel will counter-attack in response. My feeling is that an Iran attack will be met by an Israeli attack on Iran’s oil installations.


24 posted on 04/07/2024 4:49:22 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Libloather

Isn’t Biden trying to make sure Iran has a nuke?


25 posted on 04/07/2024 4:57:33 PM PDT by Racketeer
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To: Libloather

DC has probably been added to the Sampson Option.


26 posted on 04/07/2024 5:47:40 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Libloather

Let us not forget that Iran has either nukes (probably) or enough centrifuge product for dirty bombs (certainly), and that ignores their alliance with North Korea.

Would Iran be crazy enough to nuke Israel? I wouldn’t bet against that.


27 posted on 04/07/2024 7:10:03 PM PDT by DNME (… all experience hath shewn … )
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To: Libloather

People are concerned about the announcement Israel is pulling their punch in Gaza.

It may be Israel wants to be seen as appeasing Biden; he has threatened Israel according to reports.

If Iran strikes Israel - and they very well may - Israel and their allies in Congress can lay it at Biden’s feet, i.e. Biden’s threats to withhold support of Israel emboldened Iran’s radical government.

This may not be Israeli deliberate strategy but it may be the way it works out.

If Iran strikes Israel after Biden’s overtures to the terrorists, Israel is clear to take whatever measures are necessary. And Biden is going to look like he is not the free world leader we need.


28 posted on 04/07/2024 7:25:41 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Libloather

“The officials said any retaliation inside of Israel is expected to focus on military or intelligence targets, rather than civilians.”

The same idiot ‘officials’?
Don’t bet on civilians remaining unscathed from Iran’s retailiation.


29 posted on 04/07/2024 7:33:45 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Biden officials are worried ....

Why?

Because Israel might show the USA what GONADS are made of?

30 posted on 04/07/2024 7:36:46 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Williams

IRAN?

Seems I remember something about 444 days and Iran a few years ago...


31 posted on 04/07/2024 7:38:02 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Yeah right they’re worried, its exactly what they want to happen.

That comment is beyond stupid. Have you know cognitive skill ?

    Biden Administration Goals, in no particular order:
  1. Stabilize the status quo to prevent a wider regional war.
  2. Trigger early elections in Israel to replace Netanyahu.
  3. Work with Gantz or Lapid to establish a Philistinian state in Gaza (Philistia) and the West Bank (Judea and Samaria)
  4. Get reelected

32 posted on 04/07/2024 7:42:58 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: Libloather

If Iran hits Israel, Israel will hit Iran. Short of nukes Israel can not take Iran out. Israel has nukes. Israel does have the capability to take out Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf with conventional weapons. About 80% of Iran’s oil exports are from Kharg Island. Iran’s economy would go up in the smoking burning oil of Kharg Island.


33 posted on 04/07/2024 7:43:39 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: cpdiii
Short of nukes Israel can not take Iran out.

Not necessarily so ...
34 posted on 04/07/2024 7:49:17 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: Libloather

Genocide Joe is hoping this happens. I don’t know who he hates more...Blacks or Jews, but he has no love for either.


35 posted on 04/07/2024 8:16:49 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: Bookshelf

If I was making Israeli policy I would just NUKE Iran’s big bosses and then dare the world to do anything about it.

Most of the leaders in the Middle East wouldn’t say it out loud but they would be thanking the Israelis.

Those dumbasses who would want to retaliate against Israel after Teheran was turned into a radioactive pit would have to think real hard about whether they are next.

It’s my belief that Israel has been stocking nuclear weapons since the 67 war and even more and faster after the 73 Yom Kippur war, remember they almost got their heads handed to them in those two wars and unlike American Politicians the Israelis have a tendency to learn from their mistakes.

So, how many weapons do they have, what is the yield of each of those weapons, do we use a ground burst and contaminate raghead land for a thousand years, or should we be nice guys and use an airburst and just flatten and burn everything.

I do NOT want to live in any country that tries to threaten ISRAELS existance as a JEWISH STATE!


36 posted on 04/07/2024 10:11:26 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: Libloather

[Biden officials are worried Iran may plan to hit targets in Israel as payback for attack that killed Iranian general]


Ezekiel 38 is coming. You can count on it. It is written in the Word of God.


SAVED FOR REPOSTING


Ezekiel 38 is going to happen one of these days. Prophesied about 2,600 years ago. It’s for the Latter Days (v. 16) and the Latter Years (v. 8) (KJV).

Ezekiel 38 KJV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zuYCM0g2kc

Ezekiel 38 King James Version (KJV)

1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

10 Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

17 Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face.

19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.


37 posted on 04/07/2024 10:18:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Libloather
Biden officials helping are worried Iran may plan to hit targets in Israel as payback for attack that killed Iranian general

More likely.
38 posted on 04/07/2024 10:19:14 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: 5th MEB

[It’s my belief that Israel has been stocking nuclear weapons since the 67 war and even more and faster after the 73 Yom Kippur war, remember they almost got their heads handed to them in those two wars and unlike American Politicians the Israelis have a tendency to learn from their mistakes.]

Israel has basically been at it since Dimona was built in the 1950’s.

1958. Some reports said it went active between 1962-1964.

So you may not be too far off.

Israel certainly had nuclear weapons by 1973.


39 posted on 04/07/2024 10:32:30 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: cpdiii
Israel can not take Iran out.

Israel CAN take Iran's leaders out.

40 posted on 04/08/2024 3:29:11 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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