Mick Hartley

An important article from Kyle Orton in Fathom on Iran's "ring of fire" round Israel, and "the West’s ongoing appeasement of Tehran and refusal to see plain the IRGCs transnational Jihad":

Synopsis:

Soleimani’s ‘ring of fire’ strategic concept envisioned surrounding Israel with IRGC units—in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Iraq, and Yemen—that are steadily equipped with better and better missiles to threaten Jewish population centres and the Israeli economy, making Israeli life unliveable as part of a grinding war of attrition that ends in Israel’s destruction. Analyst Kyle Orton argues that although this Iranian attack was ‘essentialy a symbolic episode’ choreographed with the US not to be military significant, the pressure on Israel from the West not to retaliate has shifted the Overton window yet again. The view that Israel was supposed to just live with rocket fire on her civilians from Gaza was long ago normalised, and the idea has now entered the mainstream of respectable Western opinion that an enemy State can openly fire hundreds of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Israel and Israel should absorb this without response. This will have lasting effects whether or not Israel defies this pressure.

But do read it all.