By Stan Goodenough
Oct 21, 2007
Consumed with their hatred of the Jew, and eaten up by a desire to champion the final war against Israel, Iranian leaders vowed Saturday to unleash 11,000 missiles in a single minute against the Jewish state if Iran's nuclear facilities come under attack.
So outrageous was the threat that Israeli experts quickly dismissed it as a sign of Iranian "insecurity" and perhaps a mega-bluff to try stave off what appears to be an increasingly imminent US- or Israel-led attack against the rogue state's atomic weaponry program.
The headline reporting the threat dropped quickly off the front page of Israeli news agencies.
No one disputes that Iran has mass-destruction weapons that pose a very real existential threat to Israel.
What the analysts apparently cannot or will not accept, however, is that that country's maniacal mullahs believe so staunchly in the supremacy of their god over the LORD God of Israel, and in the rewards that await the shaheed (Muslim martyr who dies killing Jews) in Paradise, that they are wide open to carrying out a "suicide" attack that is national in its scope.
Were Tehran to make good on its promise, even if it stopped short of using WMDs, the devastation it could wreak on Israel is almost incomprehensible.
Last summer saw the Lebanese Hizb'allah successfully terrorize the Jews when – over the course of a month – they rained 4,000 Katyusha rockets across the northern reaches of Israel, claiming dozens of lives, driving more than a million Israelis from their homes, and inflicting billions of dollars in damage to the Israeli economy.
Iran's arsenal is enormously more potent than anything the Hizb'allah could wield.