Everybody who thinks they know what Israel will do or when they will do it always seems to think (and talk and write) in terms of jet fighter-bombers dropping bunker busters on laboratories deep within mountains. Or else launching missiles from their tiny fleet of Dolphin submarines.
Certainly the submarine option would be preferable to risking the lives of young pilots and weapons officers (the guy in the back seat) flying so far away and over so much hostile territory. But there are other options few talk (or think or write) about.
Except PJMedia’s Dr. Michael Ledeen in his good series “The Iranian Time Bomb.” My favorite of his suppositions as to how it could be done is to think about an inside job. Not just by commandoes, though there are bound to be a more than a few of them already inside Iran.
But, even more likely, are some of the estimated quarter million Iranian Jews who already live there, all speaking Farsi and all passing effectively (because they are Iranians in a country where many, many people hate the regime) with plenty of means, motive and opportunity. Think about it.
(If you can’t get to the series at the link above without paying for a subscription, give one a trial. It’s not expensive and so much of PJMedia is so good and so very different from the Democrat news media’s familiar Obozo-lovin’ and Obozo-excusin’ narrative.)
UPDATE: A quarter million Iranian Jews still in Iran? Says Dr. Ledeen. Could be far fewer, according to Point of No Return, the Jewish Refugees blog. About 100,000 were there before the 1979 Muslim revolution. Not many have left since and the ones who stayed try to keep out of the public eye since the regime is mortally hostile to them. Still, what better motive could you ask for if you wanted an inside job?
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