Israel might be powerful militarily, but a top Iranian commander says that doesn’t mean it can’t be beaten with a well-executed invasion.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website posted an interview this month with Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who argued that the Palestinians and Hezbollah must launch a “ground war.”
According to translations provided by MEMRI, Salami lauded Palestinian and Hezbollah missile attacks on Israel, which have sparked numerous recent mini-wars in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. But, he argued, “missiles are excellent for deterrence or for waging static wars. They do not liberate the lands.”
To actually achieve the Palestinians’ long-stated goal of destroying Israel and supplanting it with a State of Palestine, they must move beyond isolated terrorist assaults and missile barrages.
One might rightly wonder how in the world a Palestinian and Hezbollah ground force, even one that numbered of many thousands of troops, could possibly overcome the air power and armored forces at Israel’s disposal.
Salami believes this is possible because Israel’s army, as well-equipped as it is, lacks the same level of religious fervor and belief that characterizes the Hezbollah, the Palestinians and the Islamic Republic.
He added: “The Palestinians are ready today for ground warfare. Israel’s biggest weakness is ground warfare.”
With reporting by JNS.
Ezekiel 38, they will come, they will invade, they will be destroyed to one sixth of their number. I have never seen the Lords word go void.
I think it’s unlikely that Iran will want to nuke Israel. They want to return it to Islamic rule. They want their proxies to occupy it. Israel’s actions against Iran’s nuclear capability are primarily helping the US. Iran characterizes America as the great Satan.
Israel might like to think about issuing an exclusion order to any Arabs who support Iran’s efforts to conquer them. All those in the so called West Bank, Gaza, and those who have built houses in Area C would be expelled to Syria or other Arab territory that Israel succeeded in taking during any future conflict. Certainly Israelis would be expelled if they lost.
Making this publicly known in advance would cause Arabs to consider being friends with Israel, and helping where they could, rather than facing eviction. The international community’s intervention to stop the war once it saw Israel prevailing would have to be resisted until the borders were secure. They have been part of the problem not the solution for decades. The primary purpose of the Ezekiel 38 war is Israel witnessing God to the world, Ezekiel 38:23.