“Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm 121:4)
THE NEWS: On the evening of Thursday, April 18, (EDT) Israel struck back. They launched a limited response attack against Iranian targets. Almost immediately confusion set in. Iran first acknowledged the strikes but said they were limited and the downplayed the damage. Then they said that there were no attacks at all.
The Daily Mail reported “explosions rang out in the central Iranian city of Isfahan around 5am local time.” US sources confirmed the Israeli attack and said that the White House was given notice and America was not involved. Then the Iranian denials began coming in. Iranian spokesman began downplaying the size of the attack, saying only drones were used and other sources claimed there was no Israeli strike at all.
AMIR TSARFATI – After the attacks started, “Iran is trying to broadcast business as usual and claim that there is no damage to the sites on the ground…. The goal, apparently, is not to climb too high a tree and not to be dragged into the war. The Iranian news agency Tasnim, which is affiliated with the regime: contrary to claims and reports – there is no foreign attack in Isfahan or any other part of the country. The air defense fired interceptor missiles in some places, but this is due to the high sensitivity of the air defense systems.”
Tsarfati summarized the events of the night.
- Israel carried a limited attack on Iranian bases from where the Saturday night missiles and drones were launched.
- The damage is heavy but hard to see from the ground by civilians.
- The only reasons anyone knows about this attack are the loud explosions from the air defense systems.
- Israel sent a message:
- We are able to attack and hit you hard. Now, let’s see if you will retaliate! If so, your nuclear sites are next.
- The scale of the this attack trapped the Iranians. They can’t attack back and they can’t even use Hezbollah to strike hard or-else they will lose them as well.
- While all eyes are on Iran the Israeli military is prepared to begin a powerful ground maneuver into Rafah.
“The Iranians deny that missiles were launched in the attack tonight, they claim that small short-range UAVs were used, and that they were launched from Iranian soil. In addition, the base that was attacked is a base of the Air Force of the Iranian Army and not of the Revolutionary Guards.”
“9 targets near Tabriz and Isfahan were attacked early this morning…..”
Tehran is pointedly backing-off its’ earlier strong statements that promised immediate retaliation. The Iranian Foreign Minister before the latest strikes: “ In case the Israeli regime embarks on adventurism again and takes action against the interests of Iran, the next response from us will be immediate and at a maximum level.” After the strikes, A spokesperson for the Iranian Space Agency said, “Everything that happened was a failed and humiliating attempt for Israeli aviation.” Another official told Reuters: “There is no plan for an immediate response, it is not clear who is behind the attack.”[i] [ii] [iii]
COMMENTARY
Israel successfully targeted areas near the Iranian nuclear facilities – sometimes with the S-300 anti-missile systems right there. The Israeli Air Force was sending a message. ‘We can strike you.’ Iran seems to have gotten the message. That’s why we are seeing Tehran back-off of their previous bellicose rhetoric. This found confirmation in a CNN report that cited a “Regional intelligence source,” as saying: “direct state-to-state strikes between the two enemies were ‘over.’…. Iran was not expected to respond to the strikes.”[iv]
THE IRANIAN STRIKE
We’ve all no doubt seen or heard the scorecard from Iran’s April 14th attack on Israel. Tehran and their proxies launched over 300 drones, rockets and ballistic missiles. The attacks came from multiple countries in the Middle East region. It is remarkable that 99% of them were taken down by the Israeli Air Force with help from the US, the UK, Jordan and the Saudis. Action on April 14, 2024:
“At 1:42 AM, over 100 ground to ground missiles from Iran approached Israel’s airspace. Simultaneously, drones and ballistic missiles were fired from Yemen, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Tens of Israel fighter jets were scrambled. Those jets included F15, F16, and F35. The Israeli planes flew deep into the airspace of the Middle East and began hunting the missiles and drones, detonating them one after the other. In parallel, fighter jets from the U.S. and UK, along with other countries also took off and began to “hunt” the missiles. The missiles and drones that survived the fighter jet attacks approached Israeli airspace and were immediately taken out by Israel’s defense systems including the Hetz (arrow) 2, Hetz 3, and more. 99% success with the 1% causing minimal damage/injuries/casualties.”
One Israeli scientist saw the whole thing as a miracle describing it as something “on the scale of splitting the Red Sea….On a scientific level it simple cannot happen…. The likelihood that everything works out just as it should does not exist in complex systems like the defense systems that were operating…. Even if we got 90% protection it would be a miracle. What happened though is that everyone, I mean everyone – the pilots, the system operators and the technology operators – acted as one man at one moment in total unity. If this is not an act of God, then I no longer know what a miracle is.” This from a man of science.[v]
So, Israel says that a day of reckoning is coming form Iran. The War Cabinet has determined a response. And Iran has said that if Israel responds, the coming attack by Iran will be ten times worse. And the situation continues to get more complicated and dangerous. This last Sunday, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, let Washington know that Russia would come to the assistance of Iran if Israel were to attack. Later in the week, President Biden told the Wall Street Journal, “Should Iran manage to significantly escalate attacks on Israel, the US could be drawn into the conflict. Israel is our strongest partner in the Middle East, and it’s unlikely that we would remain passive if its defenses falter and Iran is able to execute its destructive agenda against it.”[vi] Those statements alone by the two of the world’s major nuclear superpowers highlights how close we are getting to the outbreak of World War III.
Now, as we have noted, the overall grades for the action on April 14 point to a gigantic defensive victory for Israel and her allies. There may be another side to this. Even the Israeli’s admit that a few missiles got through. They admit that a couple of bases in the Negev were struck with only minor damage and zero casualties. Hal Turner however, asserts that he has “secret intelligence” that a hanger housing F-35 aircraft and other spy planes in the Nevatim Air Base in the Negev was struck killing over forty Mossad personnel. Turner also claims that a secret Israeli intelligence base on the Golan Heights was “seriously damaged.” Hal Turner: “But for the Defense sector, that pales in comparison to what took place for Iran to achieve that. Nevatim was defended by the world’s most advanced integrated anti-missile defense shield which incorporated Arrow 2, David’s Sling, THAAD, and Patriot 3 with the AN/TPY-2 X-band surveillance and targeting radar. This system was designed to exclusively defend against the Iranian medium-range ballistic missile threat.”[vii]
Iran began the attack by launching “the old dregs of their arsenal, first generation drones [and]first generation cruise missiles….the junk they had laying around for years.” Israel and their Western Allies used up much of their anti-missile arsenal on this first wave. Jordan may have actually fired-off their entire stock of Patriot missiles. It was then the Iranians launched missiles from their ballistic arsenal. Turner reports that the fact that some missiles got through and this fact is panicking “some people in the Defense sector.” Tehran now knows that “Israeli ‘missile defenses’ cannot stop their medium range ballistic missiles with any great reliability.” In the aftermath, even Hezbollah has been employing “much-faster, jet powered drones” against Israel’s north border region. Turner believes that Iran has now achieved a state of “strategic deterrence” vis-à-vis Israel.[viii]
Amir Tsarfati references a Qatari report from Egyptian sources saying: “The American administration agreed to the Israeli plan for the operation in Rafah – in exchange for not carrying out a large-scale attack in Iran.” The IDF is in the process of readying itself for a “a major assault on Rafah. The army has deployed additional artillery, armored vehicles, and mobile command centers. The Defense Minister and IDF Chief have approved the operational plan.” Right on cue, there are reports that “Israel is pouring in tanks and artillery around the Gaza Strip in preparation for a ground entry into Rafah.”[ix]
Amir Tsarfati’s take on all of it: “History was made in the early morning hours of April 14. But more significantly, God clearly showed Himself.”[x]
- AMERICAN TANKERS IN THE AIR – The US and the UK have put a number of refueling tankers in the air including some being launched from Saudi Arabia and “If the Israel Air Force (IAF) is going to attack Iran from different axes and in waves, then it will need a lot of flying tankers.”[xi] Are the US & the UK preparing to assist in an Israeli attack?
- Nuclear Bombs Being Loaded – HTR reports that B-52s at Minot AFB in North Dakota, were being loaded up with nuclear cruise missiles.[xii]
ON THE UKRAINIAN FRONT:
- Ukraine Losing or a Ploy for More Aid? – The Deep-State-controlled legacy media is finally starting to report the real situation in Ukraine. A headline in Politico states unequivocally: “Ukraine is heading for defeat.” It is something that should have been realized long-ago. Without massive Western, boots-on-the-ground assistance – you know, World War III – Ukraine was always going to lose. The US and Europe spent a lot of money and depleted our stocks of ammunition trying to prop-up a corrupt, anti-democratic government that we had installed after staging a coup to overthrow the legitimate Ukrainian government in 2014. Now, the MSM seems to be admitting the reality of the situation…..But not really. This is just a ploy for more aid and more wasteful spending that will result in more dead Ukrainians….and oh yes, Russians. Here’s the sentence in Politico that gives away the game. “Without a major step-change in the supply of advanced Western weapons and cash, Ukraine won’t be able to liberate the territories Putin’s forces now hold.” They just want more cash for Zelensky, the man who cancelled elections, took over the press and is attacking a Christian denomination….You know, the Winston Churchill of our time!
- French Unit Destroyed in Ukraine – The Military Chronicle reported that elements of an artillery brigade from the French Foreign Legion arrived in Ukraine. President Ukraine was making good on his threat. Their equipment consisted of “12 to 15 wheeled howitzers, as well as several Renault trucks with auxiliary equipment.” The French CAESAR self-propelled guns were to be used “for barrage fire in the event of an attack by the Russian Armed Forces on Slavyansk.” Now, “Russia had previously warned NATO countries that if they sent troops into Ukraine, those troops would become legitimate targets.” And targets they became. On April 15, HTR reported: “Those French troops and their CAESAR artillery were demolished overnight by the Russian Army.”[xiii] It is not clear whether the French force consisted of mercenaries, soldiers claiming to be mercenaries or a recognized unit of French forces.
- Nuclear Inspectors Verboten! – “The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief reports that Iran has denied inspectors access to Iranian nuclear facilities.”
[i] Amir Tsarfati, Telegram, April 18 & 19, 2024
[ii] Israel BOMBS Iran, Syria, Israel BOMBS Iran, Syria, Hal Turner Radio, April 18, 2024
[iii] FOX News & CNN were both consulted in this report – April 19, 2024
[iv] Direct state-to-state strikes between Israel and Iran are “over,” says regional intelligence source, CNN, April 19, 2024
[v] From Amir Tsarfati, Telegram, April 17, 2024
[vi] Uh Oh: Biden — U.S. Could be Drawn Into Israel-Iran Conflict, Hal Turner Radio, April 17, 2024
[vii] Amir Tsarfati, Telegram, April 16, 2024
[viii] Defense Sector Panicking, Hal Turner Radio, April 16, 2024
[ix] Amir Tsarfati, reports on Telegram, April 17 & 18, 2024
[x] Amir Tsarfati, Behold Israel Newsletter, April 18, 2024
[xi] US and UK Put Air Refueling Tankers up, Hal Turner Radio, April 16, 2024
[xii] United States Loads Nuclear Bombs onto B-52’s, Hal Turner Radio, April 17, 2024
[xiii] Russia Hits FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION TROOPS in Ukraine, Hal Turner Radio, April 15, 2024
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