In an incident that was itself likely revenge for last week’s Israeli assassination of six Hezbollah members, including their anti-ISIS operations leader, an anti-tank missile was fired across the Lebanese border into Israel today, killing two soldiers and wounding seven others.
Hezbollah claimed credit for the strike, but the Israeli military responded with artillery attacks against the Lebanese military pounding several bases and killing a UN ceasefire observer.
Hawkish Israeli officials are calling for the military to greatly ratchet up the escalation in the coming days, with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman demanding a “disproportionate” response. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as usual, blamed Iran, and threatened to retaliate against them.
Today’s attack followed not only last week’s assassinations by Israel, but a flurry of Israeli attacks on Syrian military posts yesterday, which they couched as retaliation for a pair of rockets that landed in an empty field in the occupied Golan Heights, doing no damage.
With the Israeli elections less than two months away, almost everyone is trying to hawk it up on this incident, with Tzipi Livni of the new “Zionist Camp” join list similarly calling for revenge and similarly suggesting it could be Iran’s fault. Meretz leader Zahava Gal-On, by contrast, warned against impulsive reactions, saying “getting dragged into an unnecessary war in Lebanon is the last thing Israel needs now.”
http://www.infowars.com/israel-and-hezbollah-prep…
According to Kurt Nimmo on the Jones site, both Israel and Hezbollah/Iran have been preparing for a Golan Heights/Lebanon war for months now. The assassination of the Iranian general was a little of the usual preemption/provocation by the Israelis. The Israelis have proved that they don't do well on the ground, and in close combat, even against Hamas in the latest Gaza War. In the last Gaza War, they massed their most elite troops and tanks and failed in their assault to cut the Strip in two. Iran and Hezbollah will likely be aiming to draw them into a land assault here. According to the Nimmo article, Israel is mobilizing ground forces and quartering them in the "civilian" villages and kibbutzes around the Shebaa Farms and the Golan Heights. The rhetoric emanating from the Israeli pols and settler types will eventually force them to try another land assault by the "invincible" IDF.
They got their asses broke the last time fighting with Hezbollah lets see what happens this time.
Shebaa farms is not Israel so they will be asking for it if they do get another loss. Israel does appear to have a problem on the ground. If this gets to be made for sure then Israel has big problems. The Russians fill start helping to knock out the Israel ability to fly over other nations. What is this world going to be like with Israel afraid to go into another nation and murder someone.
HA-HA
With all the death and destruction going on in the middle east, it's quite heartening to see IDF thugs die again. Here's to many, many more. May their enemies blast them to pieces. May they be dragged through the streets and pummeled and spat upon by everyone who has lost someone as the result of Israeli carnage on civilians. May Nettanyahu tremble in fear and experience many a sleepless night over these incidents he caused by being a Chosenite Supremacist chump. I hope the evangelical bootlickers and their counterparts in Kongress are tearing their hair out.
Strange? Creepy? Not with the way there are constant orgasms over murdered Palestinians by Israelis and their stooges (You can look that up – the Israeli woman said she nearly had orgasms as she watched the bombs fall in Gaza last summer).
No pity for the bully here. Sorry.
You're a horrible human being, and definitely not a peaceful one. Shame on you, celebrating over anyone's death. You sound like Hillary Clinton chanting "We Came, We saw, he died!" ALL human life is valuable, even Jewish lives.
Peace lover if you only could get that message to the leaders of Israel.
It's not that "Iran and Hizballah want to draw Israel in". As I've said here repeatedly, the goal of the Syrian crisis has always been to enable the US/NATO/Israel to degrade both Syria and Hizballah ability to function as effective actors in an Iran war. This requires that Syrian ability to interfere with an Israeli attack on Hizballah in the Bekaa Valley via Syrian territory be degraded by the civil war and/or a US/NATO attack on Syria. This was going to happen over the alleged Syrian chemical attack but was derailed when Russia's Putin out-maneuvered Obama by having Assad dump his chemical weapons.
Now Israel appears to be tired of waiting for the US to do it. This is why they attacked Hizballah in Syria and have now attacked Syrian army posts. They want a new Lebanon/Syria war and they want it now before some sort of Iran deal over Iran's nuclear program can be reached.
Richard, you have got it right on seeing what the hidden motives are.
Israel started this so they shouldn't be surprised at all by this. The regime of Netanyahu is a violent murderous one.
There are two elements hindering the peace in middle east and one of them is the current israeli government, the other is the saudis Islamic foot solders and mercenaries barbarians called ISIS, fighting the syrian, iraqi, kurdish and all other major or minority ethnic people living in middle east.
Israel don’t have a good memory from the 2006 Lebanon war with Hezbollah, although the idea by Bush regime was for Israel to continue into Syrian territory where for US/Israel/English war program planed by Paul Wolfowitz “re-collonalization” of the entire northern part of middle east including Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan where for that matter Lebanon needs to be occupaid by Israel first, they were defeated in 2006 and they well be defeated once again.
Iran, Iraq, Syria and Iran were united and such unity needed to be destroyed by USG/English and other far right Europeans government, the Libyan war, Syrian war and creation of ISIS is the work of Saudis, Israelis, USG and European far right regimes. So is the fact with Neo Fascism in Ukraine, is the work of English/USG and far right European governments pushing the world into its out most dangerous scenario, the third world war.
He didn’t say anything about Jewish lives. He said Israelis. Wht did you bring Jewish up? Israel is an apartheid state and settler country. The last one on Earth. It should not be supported by anyone with a moral conscience.
Great work. It is the time the world do the same to send these theives and terrorists and their supporters in high places a strong message. You will be treated the same. The world is fed up with your terrors, rapes, robbries, false flag operations, occupations and more. F*ck off from the region
“…with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman demanding a “disproportionate” response…”
Maybe kill 100 civilians for every “israeli” soldier, like the Lidice model in 1942 perhaps?