Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has reported that Syria is going to supply his militia with “game-changing” weapons in response to last week’s Israeli attacks, saying it was a “strategic reaction” to the strikes.
Nasrallah went on to say that Hezbollah would commit forces to the recapture of the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized in 1967. Israel has annexed the territory (as of 1981), but that claim is not generally recognized across the world.
The Hezbollah leader’s comments add to already soaring tensions between Israel and Syria in the wake of the weekend attacks, and suggest that more backing from Hezbollah is likely to be Syria’s near-term reaction to the strikes on Damascus, which killed at least 42.
Hezbollah has long-standing ties to Syria’s Assad government, and Israeli officials have claimed the attacks were aimed at preventing arms transfers to them. The reaction, at least per Nasrallah, is to give them much more advanced arms than they would’ve conceivably gotten in the first place.
Conspicuously absent from Nasrallah’s comments was any commitment of additional Hezbollah forces to the Syrian Civil War. So far Hezbollah has committed troops to protecting border villages with large Lebanese populations, as well as religiously significant Shi’ite sites.
Always those one-sided news sources – what Nasrallah said in original sources? What he says he said?
Sources of antiwar are always sources of NATO countries or Israel.
And what "game-changing" weapons?
And independent of this: weapons, they give to Hezbollah, are missed on the Syrian Army side – so what should it change at all actually?
Why should those weapons in hand of Hezbollah be more relevant, than in the hands of the own army???? Especially regarding Golan ? It is Syria which borders to Golan.
Where is the game change ?
Why such questions arising are ignored in this article?
WHAT ROT
Israel has nukes to take care of its biggest enemies, bunker buster bombs to crumble its medium Iran type enemies, but nothing has it to defend against freedom fighters when properly armed for battle.
For Israel's last war against Hezbollah may be its very last war, just savor the humiliation of it.
So, go count your excessive wealth someplace else, for in this forum we do not suffer fools lightly.
Israel is 'on notice'… Hezbollah wasn't the only to comment.
It seems to me as though 'the ball is in Israel's court' at this point.
zzzzzzzzzz I'm sure Israel and NATO are shaking in their boots lolol. If Hezbollah was really so clever and smart? they'd keep their mouths shut and not give away their strengths & capabilities (which are extremely over rated btw). Hezbollah was spared in 2006 because the world community restrained Israel- not because IDF was militarily defeated by a few thousand guerillas.
Syria doesnt respond to IDF attacks because it doesnt have the tech to win over Israel's overwhelming, western-backed arsenal. Russia's tech is 2nd rate and any final matchup would be Syria/Iran vs NATO, Iz, BRICS- the world- basically. Nasrallah has misread the intl scene before, to Lebanon's great destruction, and his hubris will drive him to do so again.
All of this said with dismay, I may add, as I would LOVE to see someone kick Israel's ass so hard they'd never get up again. But I have to call reality for what it is.
Mate, Russian technology and weapons systems are far from second rate. The various missile packages they have are truly game changing, the no-fly zone so desperately requested from Israel would be negated by the deployment of the Iskander system and the maritime missile assets being deployed negate any sea borne advantage Israel thinks it has. The Syrian air-force is capable of robust defence but has been held back, Assad is doing a lot to avoid escalating the situation, in doing so he is stating to the imperial powers that they have the capability to strike back but choose not too, solely to preserve some tangible sense of control in the area. If Syria and its allies struck back, Israel and others propping up the terrorists would have a very short and exciting existence until they were wiped out. Cool heads prevail in Syria, the same cannot be said for the western powers hell bent on destabilising the country. Personally I want the escalation to take place, stretch the US and UK to breaking point in its armed forces deployments, undermine the industrial capacity to wage war directly or by proxy (the US is involved militarily in 74 countries), and decimate the warmongering factions who want perpetual war to make money ad infinitum. Israel should be first in line to receive this attention, fucking criminal Zionazis need an object lesson on just where they belong in the pecking order of the region, at the bottom.
Why, in a million years, would Nasralla say something like that, that would give Israel an excuse to attack them and Syria.
Even if it were true, it makes NO sense, and so, must be scrutinized extensively.
Since Syria had these weapons, why in the world they did not use them just to defend themselves against the Israeli attacks instead of giving them to Nasralla???!!!
Because apparently some things are more important than national safety
Unfortunately, I don't see this conflict ending any time soon. Everyone is trying to get more weapons instead of thinking of ways to come to an agreement.
Why are we arming our future enemies>??