• Null User Object@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I assume Bibi ordered them to intentionally let that one through to drum up support for continued strikes against Iran.

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      3 days ago

      Now that it’s been all but confirmed that they allowed Hamas past defences on 10/07 to justify a massive retaliation campaign, this is almost certainly the case

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        3 days ago

        But why when they’re clearly doing what they want anyway.

        More likely they just got hit.

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      The Israeli air defense system is far from impenetrable as we saw from the last Israeli Iranian war when Israel was repeatedly rocked by Iranian missiles. The air defense can be overloaded by saturation attacks and are unreliable/unable to stop hypersonic missiles which Iran does possess.

      When Israel attacked Iran last year they did not expect Iran’s response to be as effective as it turned out to be and needed to ask the Americans for help. This time the Israelis made sure to have US back up from the beginning.