Daily Broadside | Israel Retaliates Against Iran—Sort Of

Who had the start of World War III on their 2024 bingo card?

Israel carried out limited strikes in Iran early Friday in retaliation for Tehran firing a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel late Saturday. 

Fox News Digital has confirmed there have been explosions in Isfahan province where Natanz is located though it is not clear whether it has been hit. Natanz is the site of one of Iran’s nuclear facilities, though state television has described all sites in the area as “fully safe.” 

A well-placed military source has told Fox that the strike was “limited.” Sources familiar said the U.S. was not involved and there was pre-notification to the U.S. from the Israelis. 

Pentagon officials have not confirmed the strike. The White House and the National Security Council (NSC) have declined to comment on the unfolding situation. 

The attack was “limited” by the United States, no doubt, who accepted a few missiles lobbed into the interior of Iran. But this administration has been trying to manage both sides of this conflict, apparently green-lighting Iran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel over the weekend, and now urging Israel not to retaliate but *wink, wink* approving of a “limited” strike.

Israel no doubt has the capacity and the will to destroy any of its neighbors should it choose to. Iran’s weak attack did almost no damage and looked pathetic in the face of Israel’s multi-layered defensive systems.

This newly opened direct front in the Middle East between Israel and Iran is pulling Israeli attention away from the unfinished job in Gaza, where they still have to deliver the final blow to the Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel back on October 7.

Be praying that this tit-for-tat doesn’t escalate into a full blown war.

Israel had said it would retaliate against Iran’s weekend attack, which involved hundreds of drones and missiles, in response to a suspected Israeli strike on its embassy compound in Syria. Most of the Iranian drones and missiles were downed before reaching Israeli territory.

Analysts and observers have raised concerns about the risks of the Israel-Gaza war spreading into the rest of the region.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had warned Israel before Friday’s strike that Tehran would deliver a “severe response” to any attack on its territory.

Iran told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that Israel “must be compelled to stop any further military adventurism against our interests” as the U.N. secretary-general warned that the Middle East was in a “moment of maximum peril.”

Have a good weekend.

Daily Broadside | No Meghan and More Tamyra Please

Daily Verse | Isaiah 37:20
“Now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O Lord, are God.”

We’ve made it to the halfway point of the week with as much behind us as in front of us, although the view doesn’t seem to change with Resident Biden still occupying the People’s House and his praetorian guard still occupying the Capitol, the Department of Defense and the FBI building with his shock troops only a dog-whistle away from wreaking havoc on our streets again.

For a guy who hasn’t been watching the Olympics, I’m spending a lot of time writing about them. I have another story for you today of an Olympian who’s joy and excitement over representing the United States simply overflows from her gold medal win.

Did you catch all that? What an enthusiastic, joyful and positive young woman! Tamyra Mensah-Stock, 28, a four-time All-American at Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, TX, first acknowledges her dependence on God.

“It’s by the grace of God that I’m able to even move my feet. Like, I just leave it in His hands and I pray that all the practice, that the hell that my freaking coaches put me through, pays off. And every single time it does. And I get better and better.”

And then she goes on to absolutely gush about the United States.

Reporter: That American flag around your shoulders — it looks pretty good. How does it feel to represent your country like this?
Mensah-Stock: It feels amazing! I love representing the U.S. I freaking love living there! I love it and I’m so happy I get to represent U-S-A! Love it!

Notice how she pulls the flag tight around her like it’s a warm blanket right out of the dryer.

Fox News agrees.

Mensah-Stock, an unknown to Mainstreet USA before today’s interview after winning gold, is easily the most likable athlete to come out of the Games. Her smile, love of country, and positive nature have captured the attention of citizens who’ve been beaten over the head by social justice warriors who’ve sucked the fun out of the Games.

Holy intersectionality, Batman! It’s a religious black woman representing the United States of America who actually loves her country! Can’t be — she sounds like a white supremacist nationalist xenophobic Trump supporter!

Rest assured that her enthusiasm will be ignored by the mainstream media, aka the Democrat press corp. Can’t have someone like her contradicting the prevailing narrative, can we? She’s pouring cold water on the grievance grifters’ story! Hopefully the Left doesn’t try cancelling her.

I’m still not watching the Olympics, but stories like this remain fresh and encouraging for me.

More Tamyra Mensah-Stock and no Meghan Rapinoe, please.