by Gerald A. Honigman
First responders on the site at an Israeli apartment building in Tel Aviv following an incoming Iranian missile strike. Screengrab via Youtube
As I pen this article watching the latest updates on television dealing with renewed fighting between the Islamic Republic of Iran (IR) and Israel, with America, as in the first round, also reluctantly joining the fight in “Operation Epic Fury,” I’m seeing Israeli civilian apartment complexes blown apart by powerful ballistic missiles causing multiple deaths and injuries.
As with their genocidal Arab proxies in Hamas, Hizbullah, and so forth. the mullahs deliberately blast densely populated Israeli civilian areas, while Israel carefully pinpoints military targets, nuclear scientists, the IR’s leadership responsible for murdering tens of thousands of their own people as well as Israelis, and other carefully selected sites to avoid innocent Iranian civilian casualties as much as possible.
This comparison reflects what’s been happening in the Hamas-sired Gaza fighting as well, materially, militarily, and financially enabled by the IR’s mullahs
After committing the unspeakable atrocities and butchery of October 7th, 2023, in which the equivalent of 40, 000 innocent American civilians were slaughtered in Israel—babies beheaded, females of all ages gang raped and sexually mutilated, families tied together and set afire, etc. and so forth—Hamas and hundreds of “just ordinary” Gaza Arabs who decided to join in the gruesome festivities fled back to hide behind their own women and children.
Taking pride in their exploits, they posted their handiwork on the internet as well. Don’t miss the two essential internal links:
By doing the above they knew they’d be putting their own non-combatants at risk—and that has been the modus operandi since Hamas was created in 1987, and for that matter, it is the PLO/“Palestinian” Authority’s Fatah’s as well.
The large number of Arab civilians who’ve been killed and wounded in this war have only one villain to blame: the very organization, whose charter openly declares its aim to totally destroy the sole, minuscule, resurrected nation of the Jewish People, Israel Reborn, which Gazans freely elected to govern themselves.
To understand what Israel has been up against fighting such a cowardly, vicious enemy in probably worst situation possible—urban warfare—a reading of one of the world’s leading experts on such fighting is essential…
Now let’s really begin…
Prior to the ascendancy of Cyrus (Kurash) the Great, who ruled ancient Persia from 600 to 530 B.C.E. and founded the Achaemenid dynasty, the surviving part of the Hebrews’s own far more extensive domain under King Solomon, Judah (Latin: Iudaea/Judaea), had fallen to the mighty Babylonian Empire.
King Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed the First Temple built by Solomon in 587-586 and carried off many of the leading families and ordinary citizens of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi into what would later be famously recalled as the Jewish People’s sorrowful Babylonian Captivity.
Jeremiah is perhaps the best known Hebrew Prophet of this period of exile.
A beautiful song created from passages of the Hebrew Bible expressing the pain of the Jews’s forced exile from Zion, both the city of Jerusalem and the entire land promised to Abraham and his descendants, can be found in the next link, “By the Rivers of Babylon”…
A few centuries earlier, the ten northern Hebrew tribes fell victim to the Assyrian powerhouse, with most of their people intermingling with Assyrians and others in Mesopotamia over the centuries, becoming the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel…
Some of these folks escaped and traveled eastward into Iran, Afghanistan, India, and beyond. From time to time different ethnic groups have claimed to be descendants of r m these Hebrew tribes.
Among these are Assyrian Christians, Druze, some Afghans and Israeli Arabs, and others as well…
That numerous Judaeans/Jews were forcibly converted to Islam after the massive Arab jihadi invasions from the 7th century C.E. onwards, both in their 4,000 year old ancestral homeland and elsewhere in the rapidly expanding Dar ul-Islam, is a certainty. DNA evidence has corroborated this.
Fast forward to the end of February in 2026 C.E,, and another breathtaking moment in history came roaring onto the world’s center stage.
After over a hundred thousand innocent Iranian civilians had been ruthlessly slaughtered since alien Arabized/Islamized 12’er Shi’a Muslim mullahs seized power in 1979, the modern day, non-Arab, aboriginal Aryan descendants of King Cyrus the Great received a longed for, much awaited gift from their ancient and modern Hebrew friends.
Israel, half of whose Jews were refugees from the so-called “Arab” and other Muslim world, had been subjected to scores of thousands of rocket, ballistic and other missile, incendiary device, drone, and other bombardment, from both the mullahs’s Islamic Republic and its assorted, like-minded Arab proxies for decades. It also has had a Persian Jewish President and chief of staff.
Iran of the Arabized/Islamized Ayatollah and mullahs is nothing like, for the most part, the Iran of the ancient, generally more tolerant Iranian kings.
As referred to above, after Cyrus the Great freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity, he allowed them to return to Judah and build the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
An amazing discovery was made in 1879 which contains, in Cyrus’s own words, written in cuneiform symbols, the account of his emancipation of the Jewish People from Babylonian captivity, the “Cyrus Cylinder” or “Kurash Prism”…
Historical corroboration which Arabs, by whatever name they choose to rename themselves, simply don’t have..
Judah became a loyal vassal state, and Judaean soldiers served in the Persian military in their own garrisons. They built a synagogue on the island of Elephantine near Aswan, Egypt, and centuries later, after Rome invaded Judaea, and the Jews repeatedly rose up in revolt four major times for their freedom and independence, it was Persia who allied with them.
In 40 B.C.E., Parthian Persia aided Judaea by attacking Roman occupied Syria and installing more friendly leaders there.
Not that long historically before this, the Hasmonean family of “the hammers”—Judah and his Maccabee brothers—revolted against pagan Greeks ruling in Seleucid Syria who were attempting to forcibly convert the Jews in their own Judaean homeland.
The holiday of Chanukah celebrates the victory of the Maccabees ever since…
The last major revolt of the Jews (not Arabs, and certainly not non-existent “Palestinians”) occurred against the hated Byzantine successors to Rome just a few decades before the land of their forefathers was subjected to the massive onslaught of settling, colonizing, imperial caliphal jihadi Arab armies which burst out of a fast desiccating Arabian Peninsula stealing hundreds of millions of other non-Arab peoples’s ancestral homelands and forcibly Arabizing and Islamizing them.
Examples include Zoroastrian Persia, Judaea, black Africa, Coptic Christian Egypt, Kurdistan, Kabyle/Amazigh/“Berber” North Africa, Phoenician descendant Lebanon, Assyrian and Chaldean Mesopotamia, and elsewhere as well. Safavid Persia allied with the Jewish People then too.
The latest reports regarding the renewed fighting forced upon Israel due to the mullahs’s repeated pledges to wipe it off the face of planet Earth are very promising indeed.
The murderous supremacist Ayatollah Supreme Leader and dozens of his top leaders were eliminated by Israel in its overwhelming opening air attacks in Operation Epic Fury. These were the folks responsible for slaughtering tens of thousands of their own people.
America joined in afterwards because President Trump finally realized that the mullahs were also likely aiming to acquire ICBMs—meaning the American homeland itself would likely become targeted as well.
Vice President Vance repeatedly warned—threatened—Israel regarding attacking Iran, both earlier and more recently as well…despite Israel having been bombarded by hundreds of missiles and drones of various sizes by Iran itself and its proxies.
Allegedly an intelligent man, it never dawned on him that unlike 3,000 mile wide America, with two vast oceans separating it from most enemies, two Israels can fit into Lake Michigan.
After the last time Jews and Persians fought together against a common Byzantine enemy in the early 7th century C.E., and Cyrus the Great freed them from Babylonian captivity in the 6th century B.C.E., the Jewish People, finally in their 4,000 year old resurrected homeland, has been able to repay their age old Persian/Iranian friends and former allies with the ability to regain their own freedom and independence from the clutches of an intolerant Islamist theocracy.
Israeli fighter pilots and bombers, hopefully, along with America’s continued assistance, have helped set the stage for Iran’s own people to take it from here on their road to national redemption.
As America did after World War II, with the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, America must have the fortitude to stay the course and not abruptly abandon this historic moment until a solid, new democratic Iran emerges.
Ditto for America’s long oppressed Kurdish friends and allies as well…41 MILLION truly stateless people who were indeed promised independence after WWI, but were shafted by a collusion of British petroleum politics and Arab nationalism…
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