Chapter 171: Total War Begins! The Sixth Middle East War!

With these words from the four-star general of the Ugly Country, the label of "incompetent" became even harder to remove from President Xiao Ao of the Little White House.

This was because he had just gifted the DWS platform two F-22 fighter jets and two elite ace pilots.

The unreliable real estate tycoon further attacked him, branding him an "imbecile."

After all, this was an election year, and he and Xiao Ao did not belong to the same political party.

Furthermore, the unreliable one stated that he personally disagreed with going to war against Syria.

Although this aroused considerable dissatisfaction among the people of the Ugly Country,

he still persisted in his own views.

As for the victims of this aerial battle, Israel, nationwide protest demonstrations erupted that very day.

People wept and shouted demands for the current Israeli Prime Minister to step down, for the perpetrators to be punished, and for their skins to be peeled and bones extracted.

This was because this Israeli Prime Minister had subjected the Jewish people of Israel to unprecedented humiliation.

Not only had the Israeli Air Force, which had long rampaged across the Middle East, suffered losses never before seen,

but more importantly, that night Lin Yi had not only destroyed Israel's seven major air bases.

He had also used a single missile to blow up the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, the spiritual sanctuary of the Israeli people.

What is the Wailing Wall?

The Wailing Wall, also known as the Western Wall or the Wailing Place, is a section of the retaining wall of the Second Temple of the ancient Jewish Kingdom in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.

It is the only remaining ruin of the Second Temple's retaining wall, approximately 50 meters long and 18 meters high, constructed from large stone blocks.

Judaism regards this wall as its foremost holy site; adherents must wail before it to mourn the Temple and await its restoration.

For centuries, whenever Jews scattered across the globe returned to the holy city of Shengcheng, Jerusalem,

they would come before this stone wall to whisper prayers and weep over the sufferings of exile, hence its name, the "Wailing Wall."

For the people of Yiselie, this wall signifies their history, the repository of their spirit, and the root of their existence.

With a single missile, Lin Yi severed their history, shattered their spiritual anchor, and tore out their roots.

This was far graver than if Lin Yi had dug up their ancestral graves or slain their parents.

This is also why the people of Yiselie weep even during their protests.

Because in this world, no trace remains to prove the ancient Jewish kingdom ever existed.

It is said that when the Wailing Wall was bombed,

many Jews clutched those shattered stones and fainted from weeping on the spot.

Naturally, the hatred the entire Yiselie nation now harbors toward the perpetrator is beyond imagination.

They would sooner flay the culprit and strip his bones than let him live.

Truth be told, had Lin Yi stood before them, they likely would have devoured him alive and torn him limb from limb, just like in that scene from the Hollywood film World War Z.

They would have consumed him raw.

It is said that upon learning this news,

the Prime Minister of Yiselie froze on the spot, then erupted into hysterical screams, behaving like a madman.

His mouth kept repeating, "Revenge, revenge."

Shortly after, he dispatched Mossad, one of the world's four major intelligence organizations.

This intelligence agency formed alongside the development of the Zionist movement and the establishment of Yiselie.

Before Yiselie's independence, a Jewish secret military organization called "Haganah" existed in the Batan region.

This organization was established specifically and systematically to secretly purchase arms for Jews in the Batan region, smuggle weapons, and organize illegal immigration.

Collecting intelligence for these activities was "Shai," an intelligence agency affiliated with "Haganah."

After the State of Yiselie was founded in 1948, "Haganah" was replaced by the "Yiselie Defense Forces."

Six weeks later, "Shai" was replaced by the "Foreign Intelligence Service," which became the predecessor of Mossad.

Mossad is renowned worldwide for espionage, assassinations, and the like.

Back then, when Yilang sought to develop nuclear weapons, Chouguo primarily relied on economic sanctions.

Meanwhile, Yiselie feared that if Yilang acquired nuclear weapons, it would severely impact its national security.

After all, if anyone regarded Yiselie as a thorn in their eye and a splinter in their flesh, it was undoubtedly Yilang.

Yilang had consistently clamored to erase Yiselie from the map of the Middle East.

Under such circumstances, how could Yiselie dare allow Yilang to possess nuclear weapons?

After all, should the people of Yilang go mad and truly unleash a nuclear apocalypse upon Yiselie,

whom could they turn to?

Thus, Yiselie dispatched Mossad.

They orchestrated several assassinations of Yilang's nuclear physicists.

By killing several of Yilang's treasured scientists, Mossad's name shocked the world overnight.

This time, the Prime Minister of Yiselie dispatched Mossad's most elite operatives to head for Longguo.

After all, by any measure, the DWS platform was linked to Longguo.

If one wished to locate the DWS platform's headquarters, there was no doubt that one must start with Longguo.

Additionally, on that very day, Yiselie posted a bounty of one billion dollars on the dark web.

The objective was to identify the perpetrator who destroyed the Yiselie Air Force and bombed the Wailing Wall.

The Prime Minister of Yiselie also loudly declared that this bounty would remain valid as long as Yiselie existed.

There was no time limit whatsoever.

Even eighty years later, should the perpetrator be long dead,

as long as someone led them to his corpse, they would still pay the bounty.

This shows just how deeply Yiselie's hatred for a certain individual runs to the bone.

They would not even spare his corpse; they intend to crush his bones and scatter his ashes!

When this news spread, the entire world erupted in shock.

However, from this alone, it is clear that Lin Yi's battle last night truly touched Yiselie's reverse scale.

If his identity were exposed,

he would immediately face endless assassinations; not even a nation could guarantee his safety.

However, in contrast,

the people of Batan were so grateful to Lin Yi they would kneel and kowtow.

On that very night, Hamas issued countless messages of gratitude, their excitement evident between every line.

With this single strike, Lin Yi destroyed the vast majority of Yiselie's air combat strength.

He created an unprecedentedly favorable situation for the people of Batan.

It could be said that whether the people of Batan could seize this opportunity to reclaim the lands they once inhabited

might depend solely on this single chance.

If they missed this opportunity, the people of Batan might forever lose the land of Batan and everything upon it.

Just like the Jews who were driven from their nation by Rome a thousand years ago.

For this reason, Hamas employed every trick in the book.

On one hand, they secretly dispatched envoys to Iran to seek financial support,

and on the other, they courted Fatah, the moderate faction in Palestine.

For they knew that relying solely on Hamas, a single organization, made it difficult to engage the Israeli military in an all-out war.

Only if the entire Palestinian people united as one, standing together to establish a united front against Israel,

could there be any chance of success.

In response, the current Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority convened a meeting.

Whether he was a moderate or something else,

faced with the opportunity the DWS platform had created for the Palestinians, his heart was moved.

In fact, before the war began, he had actually opposed Hamas, this radical organization, launching an attack on Israel.

Because the disparity in military strength between the two sides was too great.

The most terrifying factor was the Israeli Air Force, which had no rival in the Middle East.

Once Palestine made its move, the Gaza region would surely suffer relentless bombing.

But who could have imagined that the once-unrivaled Israeli Air Force would be wiped out overnight?

Even if some remained, their numbers were too few to influence the course of the war any longer.

Of course, Israel could replenish its air force,

but that would inevitably require time.

Moreover, training those pilots was not something that could be accomplished overnight.

Faced with this unprecedentedly favorable situation, the Palestinian National Authority convened an emergency meeting overnight,

ultimately deciding to unite all Palestinian forces for an all-or-nothing battle.

That very morning, Fatah, the mainstream faction among Palestinians with the greatest strength, influence, and membership,

which controlled the military, political, financial, and diplomatic powers of the Palestinian organizations,

and even enjoyed widespread recognition and support from Arab nations, declared an all-out war against Israel

to reclaim the lands they had once lost.

Oh, oh, oh...!!

Upon hearing this inspiring news, the members of Fatah, who had long been suppressed by the higher-ups

and had eagerly wished to fight alongside Hamas, excitedly raised their firearms and shouted.

For these people, watching another organization of their own ethnic group fight the Israeli military so effectively,

defeating the Israeli forces time and again, how could their hearts not be stirred with excitement?

It was only because the upper echelons had forbidden them from joining the fight that they had endured in silence.

Yet, even so, some Fatah members had still joined Hamas to wage war against the Israeli military.