"Israel succeeded in 12 days in erasing the life's work of a country whose mission is to destroy the State of Israel.
12 days after we launched the "Rising Lion" operation, it is impossible not to be amazed by the enormous achievement of the operation.The Prime Minister's Office statement stated that Israel had achieved the objectives of the operation. Let us recall that the goals were to seriously damage the nuclear project and seriously damage the ballistic missile project. The United States' joining undoubtedly contributed to the first part of the goals. Our determination, along with intelligence, contributed to the second part.
Here I open parentheses and be careful not to state that we seriously damaged the ballistic missile project, and this requires an explanation.
We destroyed over 50% of the launchers, killed launch squads, and the missile arsenal dropped from 2,000 to less than 1,000 missiles as estimated this morning. This means that Iran still possesses the capabilities to launch missiles, has more launchers, and will make efforts to retrain launch squads soon.I don't think we seriously damaged the ballistic missile project , but we did damage Iran's ability to produce them again. Now we must harm the ability to rebuild the factories and damage the procurement axis that will resume starting tomorrow morning.
Could we go further?
The answer is definitely yes. But and this is a big but, we faced two administrations in this war - the Biden administration and the Trump administration.
Biden did everything to harm us, put spokes in the wheels, delayed arms shipments, damaged our legitimacy in the world, and tried to stop us again and again.Only Netanyahu's determination against him did not stop the war.
Then Trump came along with a 180-degree turnaround in government. Unqualified support, shipments of planes loaded with weapons, a green light to open the gates of hell on Gaza, and a dramatic statement calling for a migration plan from Gaza. Trump is a dream come true for us and I don't know how it would have ended without him. And if that weren't enough, Trump, contrary to his election promise to his people, sent bombers and submarines to destroy the nuclear facilities, shortening the war for us and achieving a better result than we could have achieved.
To Biden we could and should have said no. You can't say no to Trump, especially not after we achieved a magnificent achievement.This morning did not go well for Israel! Our big mistake is that we didn't put armed fighter jets over Iran at 7:00 in the morning. The moment we received a report of firing at Israel, we had to attack targets and destroy them, at the same time as missiles were being launched at us. This was not done, and it is a mistake from which we must learn. Trump asked us to stop, and in light of what he did for us, it is understandable why Netanyahu honored his request.
From this operation, we will remember the heroism, courage, sophistication, planning of the Mossad, and also the leadership that allowed Or Yarok to get underway. And above all, we will remember the glorious achievements, and here we must remember - the mission is not complete and we must not forget that for a moment."
(Noam Amir)