The only thing symbolic about Iran’s potentially deadly aerial attack upon the land of Israel on April 13, is that it occurred virtually six months from the kidnapping, torture, be-heading, blood thirsty and diabolical rape and murder of more than 1200 Israeli’s on October 7. Yes, there is symbolism in the fact that this attack occurred almost six months to the day of the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust. The symbolism resides in the notion that this terror wherein approximately 300 deadly projectiles launched from Iran–about half of them sophisticated Cruise and Ballistic missiles–was intended to terrorize an already deeply traumatized Israeli population. And in terrorizing this population at a time of such Israeli vulnerability–mass protests against the government of Netanyahu, global condemnation of Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza, the desperate plea to find the remaining hostages taken as dehumanized bargaining chips by Hamas — Iran likely hoped that the Israeli government would agree to a cease fire that would become a kind of detente whereby Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Iran funded extremist groups would continue to thrive and become part of the political solution in the global demand for a Palestinian state.

However, make no mistake that this attack was far more than symbolic. In the absence of the layers of defense brilliantly implemented primarily by Israel and the United States, there likely would have been hundreds of deaths of civilians, and many more than that suffering horrible injuries as a result of corroded metal falling on homes, exploding on towns, maiming and mauling people in cars, busses, bicycles, killing as people walked, jogged, lived and breathed.

Yes, there was the symbolism of terrorism in this attack–the intention to terrorize a country into submission, and there was also the same kind of intent that launched Hamas on October 7–the intent to murder innocents.

If the attack upon Israel by Iran was meant as retaliation for the alleged Israeli attack on the Iran compound in Damascus that killed several commanders from it’s Revolutionary Guard Corps then this retaliation was a severely disproportionate response. And, as stated, it was symbolic, but it was far more than that: it was an invitation to the kind of Israeli retaliation upon Iran’s soil that the people of Iran would certainly not want, and would likely dread. And at the moment if one is an Iranian civilian, just wanting to live a peaceful life free of hate, they have something to fear. They legitimately must fear that Israel has the right to respond to this unprecedented attack directly upon the land of Iran.

Up to this point, Iran has clearly let their money do the talking for them: they have given hundreds of millions of........

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