Israel has relatively frequent moments of stepping up war rhetoric, and these days that is aimed squarely at Lebanon, with officials openly threatening to force all of Beirut into bomb shelters and bragging about the impact the war will have on the Lebanese civilian population.
It’s less a question of Israel needing to attack Lebanon than them wanting to attack Lebanon, with analysts openly calling it a “war of choice.” Israel’s far-right government considers war with everyone and everything inevitable, and argues at times like this that a war now is preferable to a war later.
It’s not clear the US is totally on board with this, however, with US officials playing up their intention to keep supporting the Lebanese military, even as Israel vows to destroy it. This is an unusual public dispute.
The US seems comfortable with Israel attacking Lebanon so long as they just attack Hezbollah, but Israeli rhetoric in the decade-plus since the last time they did that has leaned heavily toward the idea of a full-scale war attacking all things Lebanese this time around, and they don’t appear willing to back off of routing Lebanon’s barely function, US-backed military just to placate the US.
Just a matter of time before the bellicose apartheid entity that lives by the sword dies by it or finds a peaceful alternative…
They are so full of themselves… pride cometh before the fall…
The would have found that peaceful alternative a long time ago if they’d ever meant to use their moment of maximum strength to make the best peace they could hope to get.
No, they’ll die by the sword. They’ve made their choice. It is only a question of when.
and who they take with them.
So true….empathy for these fiends would be in very short supply.
Hezbollah will whip ‘em… Again.
Hopefully Hezbollah will be battle tough and armed with advanced weapons to counter the Zionist cult.
They won’t be fighting alone either. There is a formidable Palestinian brigade that has been spearheading the fight against ISIS on behalf of Syria.. I’m sure they would just love to ladle out some payback to the Germans – er, Israel I meant. Tough to tall the difference these days.
The former Moldovan bouncer turned “defence minister” Evet Ljubovich Lieberman aka “avigdor” threatened Lebanon saying that Lebanese offshore gas and oil resources “belong to israel”, Hezbollah, known to have advanced Chinese and Russian anti ship missiles (that nearly sunk a israeli warship killing several in the latest Israeli aggression 2006) retaliated that they would defend Lebanese territory including at sea.
“Israel” knows that they can’t even start prospecting the area (Russia is doing so though) unless Hezbollah is “neutralized” and that is not going to happen since it would mean a major war which this time will be fought well within occupied Palestine.
This is just the usual hot air due to Israeli impotence.
This so fits Us neocon fury over Turkey acting to prevent another Israel being formed on their borders. Fury is immense in neocon circles, and Lwbanon is always that small, convenient target. US to defend Lebanon? I would love to see it. But not likely. The Hezbollah story will be excuse, as most Israel supporters would not mind seeing Lebanese Shia population exterminated — a genocidal call already heard from devoted Israel supporters workd wide. One cannot change pagan ethos, especially as their barbarian urges take over.
The Lebanese government has repeatedly said that if Israel invades to attack Hezbollah, the Lebanese army will respond by attacking the invaders. So there is no separating the two now.
Bianca
Lebanon attacked Israel in 1948 & has refused to sign a peace treaty.
Where did get that bit of fake news? Tel Aviv? Lebanon never attacked Israel in 1948; there was no Hezbollah back then, either; it was established after the Israeli invasion of South Lebanon in 1982.
Lebanon’s army was the smallest of the Arab armies, consisting of only 3,500 soldiers.[109] …According to Rogan and Shlaim, a token force of 1,000 was committed to the invasion. It crossed into the northern Galilee and was repulsed by Israeli forces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab–Israeli_War
As Macron recently demonstrated, Lebanon has more friends than just the US.
Israel is the biggest threat to their neighbors in the Middle East.
We need an Eisenhower who defended Egypt against Israeli/French/British aggression regarding the Suez Canal in 1956.
In October 1965, Max Fisher visited Eisenhower at his Gettysburg farm. Eisenhower admitted to him that is was wrong of US to put pressure and force Israel to from Sinai without securing ironclad guarantees against Egyptian aggression and blockades.
https://ivarfjeld.com/2009/08/18/us-president-eisenhower-regretted-forcing-israel-to-pull-back/
But Eisenhower was correct in his decision to make Israel back off since it was none of Israel’s business. That decision really sticks in your craw ehh… an American president asserting himself against the war obsessed Zionist menace. Lapdog! Woof!!
On 1 September 1951, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 95 called upon Egypt: “to terminate the restrictions on the passage of international commercial ships and goods through the Suez Canal, wherever bound, and to cease all interference with such shipping.” This interference and confiscation, contrary to the laws of the canal (Article 1 of the 1888 Suez Canal Convention)
In late 1954, Nasser began a policy of sponsoring raids into Israel by the fedayeen, who almost always attacked civilians.[81]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis#Egypt_and_Israel
How were attacks against Israel not Israel’s business?
What do you think the Israeli terrorists did against the British?
Why do the two worst members of the “international community” insist on making war the only solution to any question?
Israel really doesn’t care about Lebanon per se. They just want the Lebanese who are not Shia to back off supporting Hizballah. Not that Israel won’t bomb all of Lebanon, but their primary goal is to degrade Hizballah’s missile arsenal so Israel can start a war with Iran (and then turn it over to the US to do the heavy lifting.)
There’s little doubt in my mind that Israel will attack Hizballah again at some point, probably this year. The whole point of the Syria crisis was both to degrade Syria’s military and to enable Israel to cross Syrian territory to attack Hizballah in the Bekaa Valley.
This is still in the cards, but Israel needs US support – possibly up to and including US air assets joining Israel in attacking Hizballah positions – to enable a war with Hizballah that doesn’t fail again, like in 2006. And even with US support, there’s no guarantee Israel can win. But Israel has no choice but to try since it can’t attack Iran while Hizballah can drop 1,600 missiles a day on Israel.
And war with Iran is the ultimate goal of both Israel and the US.
There’s a huge problem with this scenario, dude; since Hezbollah’s victory over Israel in 2006, all Lebanese, irrespective of religion, support Hezbollah for saving them from the Zionist Entity’s aggression. As I said in another post here, Hezbollah has increased exponentially in both manpower and weaponry since 2006, and won’t hesitate to kick IDF ass again (this paramilitary organization already kicked ISIS ass hard).
As I’ve said in my post and many times before…it doesn’t matter what the status of Hizballah is. That’s precisely WHY Israel intends to attack them – but would prefer to do so with US support.
In case you haven’t noticed, the entire purpose of attacking Hizballah is to enable a war with Iran – something Trump is very definitely in favor of.
Before attacking Hezbollah or anyone in Lebanon, they should consider evacuating Tel Aviv. Those 1600 missiles won’t be stopped by Iron Dome.
Yup. That’s the whole reason they WANT to attack Hizballah – somehow, someway, that won’t bring about what they fear the most.
Israel using American armaments to invade Lebanon should trigger all sorts of legal problems in the USA but it never does. Israel pretty much occupies the Congress the way it does Palestine.
Given Putin’s friendship with Netanyahu, it is equally likely that Russia will stand aside as Israel pummels Lebanon and Hezbollah. Russia values Israel more than it does Hezbollah. The idea of Russia not interfering when Israel attacks Lebanon was probably discussed in the recent meeting between Putin and Netanyahu.
Israel will get pummeled again by Hezbollah as it was back in 2006; and, since then, Hezbollah has increased exponentially in manpower and strength.
Apparently, you forgot that in 2006, the arrogant IDF had gotten their asses kicked very hard by Hezbollah fighters and the survivors high-tailed it back across the border, crying like toddlers. Hezbollah’s a very strong paramilitary force to be reckoned with, and the Zionist Entity’s too cowardly to deal with them.
Interesting, thank you
considering the next american revolution will be patriots vs. israel.
The people are growing distant from the evilist scum who sacrifice burnt babies as an offering to their fire god. Anyone who understands this small FACT about their so-called religion(aka cult), can free themselves any their family. They rewrote your bible so you instead damn yourself and worship sin. They deserve everything coming in the end and a rapture will be nothing when the America I know gets even.
I give that small place, tiny as New Jersey, no more than one generation before its over. So that means they will intentionally destroy america inorder to exceed world domination into devil ways. They are more than evil. Changing names and nose jobs will do nothing for them as they are tracked and listed. A growing list.
One can only hope that if the crazy Likudnicks attack that Hezbollah is able to shoot down IAF/ISIS war planes, and turns Tel Aviv into rubble. It is about time that Israel be paid back for all of its sickening terror and murder that it so enjoys.
“… a study published by the United Nations showed “that the ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in Gaza was by far the lowest in any asymmetric conflict in the history of warfare.”
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio.html
So the wholesale mass murder of woman and children via Israeli overkill and deliberate targeting of civilians should get a pass??? People like you support such criminality because you don’t know any better. Speaking of U.N. reports why not mention the countless resolutions condemning Israels theft of Palestinian land, illegal detention of children without charge, and the daily slaughter of Palestinian teens. You are heartless, but I expect that much from people like you….
People who target civilians should be punished, but
most of the people in Tel Aviv hadn’t even been born in 1982.
The same could be said of the populations in Gaza and the West Bank. Who is being illegally occupied, subjugated and bulldozed under the auspice of the military, and Israeli claims not recognized by any world body?? Your on the wrong side of humanity Sharon wannabe. Nassar did not recognize Israel until 1979, so why would he have to adhere to Israells demands for access considering the blatant criminality of the Nakba, and Israels utter contempt for the U.N. even before 1951. You are nothing more than an illegitimate apologist for a fraud. Israel had been encroaching on Lebanese territory well before 1982 and with regularity targeted Palestinians in refugee camps prior to 1982. I suppose you have an excuse for Sharon’s planned mass murder for the Sabria and Chatilla refugee camps….Zionism has no legitimacy within Judaism, and certainly has no historical relevance in occupied Palestine. Where did Abraham discuss Zionism and its relevance to Judaism?, or any of his disciples for that matter??? He didn’t nor is there any mention of this heretical ideology mentioned anywhere in any supposed holy book.
You’re complaining about terror & murder & yet you are advocating the murders of hundreds of thousands of innocents. Isn’t that hypocrisy?
If Israel invades Lebanon as it did illegally in 1982 and murdered over twenty thousand people why yes, it deserves to get hit back. The government and military are what should be targeted since they are a danger to the Israeli populace and the ME as a whole. Wake up and realize that Israel is an outlaw terrorist state that is out of control…literally.
the Israel Defense Forces(IDF) invaded southern Lebanon, after repeated attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon and the IDF that had caused civilian casualties on both sides of the border.[15][16][17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War
Why was it illegal for Israel to defend itself? It had been under continually attack from the PLO operating out of Lebanon.
“It’s not clear the US is totally on board with this”
Dose US has a choice not to be on board? Vassal has no choice but to follow his master
The massacre at Deir Yassin occurred before Israel existed.