JUST A THOUGHT - ON IRAN'S FUTILE TOKEN GESTURE, AND ISRAEL'S DESTRUCTIVE RESPONSE. PART 1.

It is so very unfair, when nations make tokenistic military gestures, in futile attempts to prove this or that point.  

Only to bring the wrath of the nation against whom the gesture was aimed, against the innocent people of the nation making the gesture.

Might this be the case with the reports of Iranian forces having fired missiles or rockets into the Occupied Golan Heights of Syria? 

Which has resulted in Israel making a somewhat sustained and massive attack on both Syrian and Iranian targets - both people and materials - in Syria?

There is, in my view, no point in nations attempting to make costly and inevitably self-destructive gestures, in pursuing their disagreements or conflicts with other nations. 

If you do not have the capacity to take on your perceived or actual opponent. 

Then, do not take action which is going to provoke that State to take retaliatory action against you, at great cost to your own people and armed forces. 

It is cynical and callous to 'sacrifice' your own people and forces in a pitiful and desperate attempt to make 'a political point.' 

To give vent to the probably understandable feeling that 'we have to do something.' 

Yes, it really is the case that Syria and its Russian, Iranian and Lebanese allies really need 'to do something', to prevent the State of Israel from carrying out attacks against their forces with near complete impunity. 

That is clear. So, also, should be the fact that, whatever is done, should be able to prove effective in completely or partly achieving the desired outcome. 

The reported attack on the Occupied Golan Heights, it seems clear, was very limited, calculated, and patently ineffective. 

Unless the intention was a masochistic and sadistic one, intended to bring the wrath and might of Israel down on the Iranian and Syrian forces.  

Which it has done, by, not unexpectedly, provoking a massive and unrestrained response from Israel's Offensive Forces. 

So, what can we expect from Israel now? 

To be continued!