Israel's Operation Opera

[Dave Darling]

I ran across something very interesting on YouTube, it is a documentary on Operation Opera, a secret Israeli air force mission to destroy a nuclear reactor in Iraq that was being used to produce plutonium for a nuclear weapons program. The very survival of Israel depended on this mission as if Saddam Hussein got his hands on a nuclear bomb he would certainly use it on Israel to wipe out the jewish state! This is an amazing story and was a stunning victory and had God's fingerprints all over it, if you've got the time (45 mins) you might want to take a look at it. The link to the video is below, you can paste the link into your web browser.

 

[AlexB23]

I ran across something very interesting on YouTube, it is a documentary on Operation Opera, a secret Israeli air force mission to destroy a nuclear reactor in Iraq that was being used to produce plutonium for a nuclear weapons program. The very survival of Israel depended on this mission as if Saddam Hussein got his hands on a nuclear bomb he would certainly use it on Israel to wipe out the jewish state! This is an amazing story and was a stunning victory and had God's fingerprints all over it, if you've got the time (45 mins) you might want to take a look at it. The link to the video is below, you can paste the link into your web browser.

I like documentaries. Thank you for this one.

 

[AlexB23]

One more thing, this took me back to the late 2000s and early 2010s, where I binge watched documentaries on Discovery, National Geographic and History channels, back when the documentaries were focused on real history, instead of entertainment or sensationalism. Thank you @Dave Darling for bringing back my childhood memories of 2009-2012. My dad's parents overseas had a Panasonic Viera plasma TV, and when I was not hanging out with family members overseas, I watched documentaries on it. At the time, my parents only had LCD TVs which did not have the same picture quality as plasmas (but were more energy efficient), but we did have Dish Network at the time back when satellite TV was affordable. When we ditched satellite TV in 2012 or 2013, that was a sad day, but then Netflix had documentaries and good TV.

Now, in 2024, LCD TVs are better than plasma displays of the early 2010s, so when watching this documentary on my LED backlit 43" LG monitor that I use as a TV, this brought back the same memories. Call me an old soul, but my yesteryear(s) just got reignited. Alright, I am done talking about my younger years.