On Saturday, April 13, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for a deadly Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, that took place on April 1.
The vast majority of the projectiles were intercepted by Israel’s air defence system, with assistance from the ever-helpful United States military, and damage was minimal. Having completed its retaliation, Iran has now declared that the matter can “be deemed concluded” – although Israel is not usually one to let anyone else have the last word
In the meantime, the barrage of criticism of Tehran’s “aggression” has continued unabated in the West.
The Iranian attack, mind you, occurred a little over six months into Israel’s ongoing pulverisation of the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 34,000 Palestinians, including some 13,800 children. And yet given the thousands of missing persons presumed to be buried under the rubble, even these terrifying numbers are no doubt grave underestimates.
More than 76,000 people have been wounded, as the Israeli military has busied itself flattening entire neighbourhoods and blowing up schools, hospitals, and other basic infrastructure, all the while condemning the territory’s inhabitants to famine and starvation.
This is a decidedly much more strategic and targeted response than when the U.S. Embassies were bombed and Clinton flattened a pharmaceutical plant in an unrelated country.
Iran wants to get uppity and complain. Why can’t they be like the Good Americans who peacefully protested on twitter after seeing their journalists and volunteers blown up by Israeli missiles, shot by American gunfire, and chopped by Saudi hacksaws?
