Hezbollah issued their first statement on Israel’s Monday night attack on a base in eastern Lebanon, confirming the incident and dubbing it “flagrant aggression against Lebanon.”
The strike targeted a reported missile base near the Syrian border, and reportedly killed four Hezbollah members. Hezbollah’s own statement denied the deaths, saying it caused only “material damage.”
Hezbollah vowed retaliation over the strike, though they said they would “choose the right time and place” for the offensive. Other Lebanese officials discussed a possible response to the attack, though their options are limited.
Some Israeli reports have spun the attack as a “bet” that Hezbollah wouldn’t retaliate against them during their ongoing involvement in Syria, though the Israeli military continues to talk up the many targets of their “next war with Lebanon,” so it isn’t clear if the military really cares if they start another war or not.
WHO BROKE THE TRUCE?
There will be no retaliation for this latest aggression by Israel. Hizb-Allah does not have the military capacity to do so. In fact, I am still waiting for their chosen time and place for retaliation for the killing of one of their top commanders in Syria some 5 years ago. Retaliation is swift and immediate!
I also doubt that Syria has any anti aircraft missiles of effective worth, otherwise, surely they would have used them on the invading hordes of Israeli planes that attack them with impunity. Russia is working to placate Israel by not supplying Syria with any effective air defense and leaving their air space totally nude to such attacks. The whole scenario is disgusting to say the least.
Remember 2006, so many Hezbollah rockets raining down in Talmudia? Certainly since then their capacity to strike Talmudia IF they again invade has to have increased.
Open retaliation only gives Talmudia and her allies casus belli to have their media propaganda organs scream about "Hezbollah's aggression", "Iranian aggression" ,etc etc. and inflict more punishment on civilian populations, which is what Talmudia does and will always do.
Don't worry about Syria and Hezbollah, I'm sure they have been playing this game with Talmudia a bit longer than you have and will get their well-desrved payback.
Hezbollah is not going to retaliate because they do not want a repeat of the 2006 short war, which left the country in tatters and decreased their popularity.__As for Syria having ant-aircraft systems, not sure why you don't think they have the capability, since in June 2012 they took out a Turkish F-4 fighter jet, which was flying close to their Turkish-Syrian border.__The only reason Israeli planes have not been attacked, is because Israel has the technology to fly their planes undetected (you may have heard that the Israeli airforce is one of the best in the world, this is why).
That Hizbullah does not promptly hurl Katyushas in retaliation for this flagrant bombing is not suprising – and, in my opinion, does not reflect military weakness. This is a fourth generation warfare between two vastly unequal parties. Looking back to the 2006 war with Israel, Hizbullah, if you remember, did not even use their most powerful Iran-provided missile and G only knows what else they were holding back.
That Mughniya has not been avenged yet is also not that suprising. What is 5 yrs in a multi-generational war – although it is almost certain it will come, the Nasrallah does not bluff.
That been said, based on their battlefield performance in 2006 against an implacable and cruel enemy afflicted with racial superiority complex of biblical proportions, the Hizbullah has to be some of the finest infantry in the world.
Hezbollah claimed that there were no casualties and that Israel simply bombed an army base. However, many other reports (including Arab publications) claim that Israel bombed a convoy attempting to transfer weapons into Lebanon.
Is there a reason why the author has decided to completely gloss over that analysis, which in many ways makes a lot more sense and explains why Israel would break their neutral stance and carry out a military strike?