Iran Gets its Wish: Israel at Close Range
Israel floats part of Negev to the Arabian* Gulf, plugs Strait of Hormuz
The world’s anticipation of Israeli retaliation for Iran’s missile and drone strike ended yesterday with a stunning surprise. Instead of replying in kind, Israel deployed an economic doomsday weapon. It dropped a long thin piece of its Negev desert into the Strait of Hormuz oil export choke point by using the anti-gravity metal cavorite imagined in H.G. Wells’ First Men in the Moon. Plugging the strait with a Big Float got Israel a geopolitical two-fer, blocking the LNG exports of Hamas sponsor Qatar.
Israel can now strangle the Iranian economy at its most sensitive choke point. A fringe benefit was putting water between Gaza and southern Israel and opening a canal to rival Suez between Gaza and Eilat.
In this top secret Williamsburg Project Israeli tech wizards and engineers made the anti-gravity metal cavorite from Jules Verne’s First Men in the Moon a reality. With a bit of Yiddische humor, they impishly renamed it Corbynite, for float above reality see no antisemites anywhere Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. My East London Jewish…