Goliath Against David's Story With Iran and Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                

If you look very hard, you will spot Israel on the left, south of Syria and to the West of Jordan.  Iran is huge, to the East of Iraq.  Iran's population in 2011 was 76,923,300 and is an Islamic State with 98% Muslims. Iran is one of about 48 Muslim majority countries in the world.  In fact, they are 6th largest of Muslim populations.  Indonesia has 228, 582, 000 Muslims.   Israel is the only Jewish state in the world.  The total area of the State of Israel is 22,145 sq.km (8,630 sq. miles), of which 21,671 sq. km is land area.  Population of Israel in 2021 was 9.364 million. 

 Not all are Jews though it's a Jewish state.  About 20% are Mostly Muslims and there are some Christians, too.  Drop a nuclear bomb on Israel and Jordan and other Middle Easterners will also suffer from the effects.  Needless to say, Iran is not a popular state with Israel's neighbors.  

Are we ready to face a world with Iran who has enough  enriched uranium to produce 5 nuclear bombs right now?   Why do they want to produce such bombs?  

§  General Hossein Salami, the chief of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has made the Iranian regime’s plans vehemently clear: 

“Our strategy is to erase Israel from the global political map,” he stated on Iran’s state-controlled Channel 2 TV in 2019. Khamenei has also published a 416-page guidebook about destroying Israel — which Iran’s former “moderate” President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, basically referred to as a tiny one-bomb country.

In March 2023, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl told the House Armed Services Committee that Iran's nuclear program had made "remarkable" progress and that it would take Iran 12 days to build a nuclear bomb. Ever since the Biden Administration assumed office, the Iranian regime has been accelerating its enrichment of uranium to "near weapons grade" and declining to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). 

The 2nd Supreme Leader,  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,  attends a meeting with thousands of students in Tehran, Iran, November 3, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

What is it with this "mad on" with Iran being against Israel?  That's the $64 question.  Iran has been in competition with Saudi Arabia as chief of Islam because of the depth of Islam they each follow.  Iran is a Shi'a country and Arabia is Sunni country.  

Iran fought an 8 year war against Iraq (Shi'a/Sunni Secular country  from September 22, 1980 – August 20, 1988.  My husband and I made Aliyah from September 1980 but returned to the states at the end of 1985, and I can tell you;   that was a very long war that they fought. They about wiped out all their males !  Their Ayatollah's have just not wanted or allowed Jews in their Muslim lands, that's all. Up until the ayatollah's appearance in Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Israel was getting along with Iran's king Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, very well.  They had a good relationship.  The Ayatollah ousted him.   

Iran regularly threatens to annihilate Israel, viewing the country as a powerful enemy allied with the United States and Sunni countries in the region against Tehran and its nuclear ambitions.  Contrary to Khamenei’s claims, those threats commonly refer to the physical destruction of Israeli cities, rather than of just the regime. This Ayatollah hates the USA, Netanyahu, and says he doesn't hate Jews but he's willing to hit all of them in Israel with a nuclear bomb and other Muslims, too if it means carrying out his goal.  He's all for sacrificing his own followers as long as they're far enough away from him.   His reasoning is not my reasoning at all, nor other rational people, either.  He must be stopped from carrying out his sick goals.  

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Victor Sharpe:  Thanks for sending me the gatestone article...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19654/iran-nuclear-bombs

https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/Israel-Size-and-Dimension.aspx#:~:text=The%20total%20area%20of%20the,km%20is%20land%20area.