Thinking of the 'day after.' Lapid
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“Let’s assume we bomb in Iran,” the senior source told me. “What do you think will happen the next day?
I repeated what everyone else has been saying: We can expect blood, fire and smoke; hundreds of missiles will be fired at Israel.
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“That’s not the real scenario,” he said. “The problem is not that they would fire 300 missiles at us in two days, but rather, that they would do the opposite – fire only five or six missiles each month, but keep doing it for two years.”
And what would happen then? I asked.
“Israel’s airspace would be closed down,” the senior source said. “Airplanes will not be taking off, ships carrying goods will not be arriving at Israel’s ports, life here would grind to a halt, and our economy would be paralyzed.”
So we shouldn’t bomb Iran? I asked.
“That’s an operational question,” he said. “But Israel’s citizens should at least know what they are facing.”
