IN modern warfare, it is technologically impossible for a country of 8,000 square miles with eight million people to go into war with a country of 93 million people and 700,000 square miles and win.

Here is a list of individual regions in Guyana that are either the size of Israel or far bigger than Israel. The size is listed in square miles. Region One (Barima-Waini), 8,000; Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), 14,000; Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), 18,000; Region Eight (Potaro- Siparuni), 8,000; Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), 21,000; and Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice), 7,000.

Just a small region in Guyana is the size of Israel. How  is it  possible in the age of drones and missiles that 8,000 square miles could survive a week of attacks? So, the three-week-old war between Iran and Israel raises the esoteric question as to why Iran has not destroyed, without civilian casualties, the 8,000 square miles that is Israel.

The answer is simple: Israel would not have attacked Iran without American involvement. It is impossible for Israel to survive in a war between itself and Iran. The scientific/technological fact is that 8,000 square miles is a tiny spot that will be demolished in modern technological war between nations.

So, what Israel hoped is that the simultaneous bombing by Israel and the US would have defeated Iran. But Iran proved a nightmare for Israel. It is three weeks into aerial bombing and Iranian retaliation has destroyed large parts of Israel. But the world does not know that, because the Western media are not writing about it.

Long before technology became ultra-modern, the satellite system by the two superpowers -USSR and USA – monitored military installations in their respective countries. So, the superpowers knew where the nuclear sites of each country were. Today China, France, Germany, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Japan, Australia and Canada have sophisticated satellite systems that can detect nuclear sites and military infrastructures around the world.

Israel is 8,000 square miles. It is impossible now and forever for a country of 8,000 square miles to hide its nuclear infrastructure without being detected by satellites. It means that Israel knows where Iran’s nuclear hardware is located which was provided to them by NATO powers – the US and Europe.

Iran knows where the bomb is located is Israel. You cannot hide a nuclear facility in a radius of 8,000 square miles. That can only happen in comic books. Since the war started, the question arose as to why Iran does not wipe out the nuclear warehouse of Israel.

I have asked several persons this question and the answers from all of them are identical. If Iran hits Israel’s nuclear plants, the deaths will be in the millions in all the countries bordering Israel. So, can the Israeli structure be hit without the civilian population dying? If that cannot be done, then I think Iran should devastate all the general infrastructure of Israel except hospitals and schools.

So far, Iran has been doing an excellent job that has taken the entire world by surprise. The world felt that a joint operation by Israel and the US would have crippled Iran. That has not happened. What is happening is that Iran is destroying Israel and the entire world is not seeing the reports because the Western press is not reporting the destruction of Israel.

Once more the world has seen the psychotic nature of journalism in the West. We first saw it when Israel began committing genocide in Gaza. The reporting took two forms – carry the reports coming out of the Israeli government and do not report on Israeli casualties.

So, during the two and a half years of Israeli bombing of Gaza, the Western media would carry the fatalities of Hamas, but not the deaths of Israeli soldiers.  We would read that a Hamas ambush resulted in 17 Hamas ranks being killed but just one fatality and three injuries to the IDF – Israeli Defence Force. From the time the war against the Palestinian people in Gaza started up to the present time, every major Western media house reported and reports on the conflict have been based on releases from the Israeli government.

The identical thing is happening with the war with Iran. Pick up any newspaper in any EU country and the world reads which places Israel has bombed in Iran. Pick up any newspaper in Canada, the US and Australia and it is the same old, story – Israel is on top.

Israel is nowhere on top at the moment. Israel is being hammered every day. Tel Aviv is being destroyed. But the world does not know that because Western journalism is not reporting it. Maybe they will when Iran finishes the job– which it ought to.

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