ISRAEL - The operation reportedly required upward of $1.3 billion worth of interceptor missiles and other materials to bring down Iran’s aerial barrages. Israel has claimed success in defending itself against Saturday’s drone and missile barrages by Iran, but that effort reportedly came at a high price. The interceptors, jet fuel and other materials expended in shooting down Iran’s unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and missiles cost about 4-to-5 billion shekels ($1.06-1.33 billion), Israeli Brigadier General Reem Aminoach told local media outlet Ynet News on Sunday. The estimate included only Israel’s direct costs, not counting the considerable weaponry used by the US and other allies in helping to defend against the attack.
ISRAEL - This is the most dangerous moment that we have seen in the Middle East in modern times. Israel has decided to hit Iran. There is still debate about whether it should be a devastating blow or a more limited strike. But in either case, the Iranians are pledging to retaliate. In fact, the Iranians are promising to respond to any attack with overwhelming force. Needless to say, that would certainly provoke another response from Israel. The cycle would continue until someone finally decides that enough is enough. But what if neither side backs down and the conflict escalates to an unthinkable level?
ISRAEL - Israel will mobilize two additional brigades for operations in Gaza, the military announced on Sunday. More reservists are needed on the front line “to defend the State of Israel and ensure the security of its citizens,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement. The announcement came a week after Israel pulled most of its ground forces out of the Palestinian enclave, in what the military leadership described as preparation for a mission in the city of Rafah. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure from his coalition partners to send ground troops into the city on the Egyptian border, where some 1.3 million Palestinians are estimated to be crammed. The US, a key supplier of military aid to Israel, has expressed concerns that an operation in Rafah would cause significant civilian casualties.
IRAN - Coordinated and Integrated defense successful so far. Iran started the next phase of the Middle East Theater of WWIII with a massive barrage of drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles from Iranian Territory at Israel. Here are the major points:
USA - Former Google engineer Geoffrey Hinton warns of ‘very nasty things’ now that AI is being relied on to make battlefield decisions. The world could experience multiple untold disasters before the use of Artificial Intelligence weapons comes under proper regulation, according to award-winning scientist and tech pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who is known in tech circles as the Godfather of AI. Hinton says AI is becoming much more intelligent than people and could soon take over the battlefield. With wars breaking out all over the world, in Ukraine, the Middle East, and potentially the Far East, this is a major concern for humanity.
USA - A group of left-wing, anti-war activists was seen guided in a chant in Farsi at the Teamsters Union’s Chicago headquarters Saturday, stating “death to” America and Israel, video footage shows. In a video obtained by The Free Press, an estimated 300 activists gathered over the weekend to hear from organizers throughout the country who are planning to allegedly disrupt the Democratic National Convention in August. A clip posted to X (formerly known as Twitter) Sunday, showed an organizer with the Anti-War Committee Chicago identified by the outlet as Shabbir Rizvi.
UK - It’s a political earthquake! The common earthworm, the soil-maker, food provider and grand recycler, is the landslide winner of the inaugural UK invertebrate of the year competition. Lumbricus terrestris, also known as the lob worm, dew worm and nightcrawler, took a mighty 38% of the popular vote after readers nominated it to be added to the shortlist for the Guardian contest. The rare and endangered shrill carder bee demonstrated the popular affection for bumblebees by coming second with 15% of the vote while the romantics’ choice, the glowworm, narrowly beat the unexpectedly popular distinguished jumping spider into bronze medal position with 9% of the vote. Chris Packham said: “Through constant wriggling and extraordinary ecological commitment it’s great to see the earthworm take top spot. Although I suspect vote rigging by blackbirds, badgers and moles.”
ISRAEL - Israel has described Iran's unprecedented 350-missile attack as a 'declaration of war' and confirmed it has approved plans for 'offensive and defensive action'. The country's president Isaac Herzog insisted that Israel did not want a war but suggested they would retaliate after Iran's audacious airstrike early on Sunday. He said it was 'about time the world faces this empire of evil in Tehran' and makes it clear that its behaviour is 'unacceptable'. President Herzog told Sky News: 'It's a declaration of war... we are considering all options and I'm quite confident we will take the necessary steps to protect and defend our people.'
UK - Time and again, our leaders make the same mistakes. History should have taught them long ago that appeasement emboldens dictators. The only way to make ourselves secure is by arming ourselves properly and responding to aggression with dauntless courage. Iran has felt emboldened to launch this ferocious attack for one key reason: the West has spent years trying to placate its odious mullahs, rather than making it clear that their malign actions will have sharp consequences. In recent weeks, all too belatedly, President Biden has stated that Washington's commitment to Israel is 'iron-clad'.
ISRAEL - Israel's Channel 12 reported that Israel would immediately retaliate, and a senior Israeli military official pledged an unprecedented response to the Iranian attack. Israel's Channel 12 has told residents "not to go to bed yet" because an unprecedented attack on Iran is coming, according to an official. The country's war cabinet has approved a "powerful response on Iranian soil". Iran launched between 150 to 200 drones and missiles in its first direct military attack against Israel on Saturday.
ISRAEL - Iran fired over 300 missiles and drones at Israel overnight as fears of a wider war in the Middle East ramp up. Israel could launch devastating strikes on Iran's nuclear weapons facilities after Tehran attacked the country overnight, an expert has warned. Iran fired over 300 missiles and drones at Israel in retaliation for the IDF's strike on the Iranian consulate building in Syria, killing two of Iran's military generals. The escalating hostility has left many fearing that the Middle East is on the verge of a wider war. Max Abrahms, associate professor of political science at Northeastern University, believes that Iran's attack was a declaration of war. He added that Israel could target Iran's nuclear facilities with missile attacks in the future.
IRAN - As RedState reported, Iran launched a large-scale air attack on Israel using drones and ballistic missiles. It represented the biggest escalation from the Islamic Republic against the Jewish state in history, which has long used proxy militias in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen to do its dirty work. This is different, and the response from Israel and possibly the United States will be different, with reports circulating that Israel will retaliate against Iran regardless of whether lives are lost in the current attack. How will all of this unfold? Those with a heavy isolationist bent are already predicting doom and shouting "World War III" at the top of their lungs. Yet, there's every reason to believe that Iran has severely overplayed its hand.
VENEZUELA - The world's 'next war' that nobody is talking about as two countries 'on the brink'. Tensions between Venezuela and its neighbour Guyana are reaching boiling point, as fears grow of an imminent outbreak of war between the two South American nations. Last December, the Venezuelan government held a referendum on whether to annex two-thirds of oil rich Guyanese territory, known as Essequibo. According to Venezuelan officials, more than ten-and-a-half million voters or more than one third of the country's population, took part in the plebiscite. They claimed as many as 95 percent had voted in favour of annexation, although many independent observers dispute this figure. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro declared the people had spoken loud and clear.
ISRAEL - The night sky above Jerusalem is being lit up by the more than 150 drones and missiles sent by Iran in response to a drone strike at the beginning of April in Syria that killed 12 Iranians, including two top generals. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said via state media: 'The aerospace unit of the Revolutionary Guards has attacked targets in Israel with dozens of drones and missiles in reaction to the Zionist regime's crimes, including the attack on the consulate section of Iran's embassy in Damascus and martyring our commanders and military advisers in Syria.' Missiles have begun to enter Israeli airspace, with video shared with MailOnline showing them being intercepted by the Iron Dome system above Jerusalem, in Israel's east.
MIDDLE EAST - Iranians celebrate attack despite Israel and US shooting down ‘vast majority’ of 300 drones, missiles. Israel shot down the “vast majority” of drones and missiles shot at them by Iran after the Jewish state was attacked in a vicious Saturday barrage, officials said. Iran launched some 300 drones and missiles from within the Islamic Republic — as well as from proxies in Yemen, Iraq, and Lebanon.The “vast majority” of the missiles were intercepted outside of Israeli air space, the Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement.
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