After a substantial border clash at the Israel-Lebanon border, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel remains fully prepared for “any scenario” on the border. Hezbollah attacked on Sunday, firing missiles into Israel, reporting vehicles destroyed.
Israeli officials, however, have denied that they suffered any casualties. Israel sent artillery and forces to the border in the days ahead of the fight anticipating the battle, and called off a military drill because of the battle.
Hezbollah had threatened attacks over recent Israeli drone attacks. The Lebanese Army reported on Sunday that an Israeli drone dropped incendiary material in a border forest, starting a forest fire.
The Lebanese military have not gotten involved in the fighting, though early last week they did open fire on raiding Israeli drones at the border. If fighting further escalates, Israel will probably attack Lebanese military bases, if past wars are anything to go by.
The systematic is emerging. Destroy, together with the US and Saudi Arabia, as many Mideastern countries as feasible: Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, now Lebanon. All relatively small countries. Egypt is too big for the time being. After Lebanon it will be full bore on to Iran.
Saudis are too stupid to know they are just further down the schedule.
“Brave little Israel” – at last they have decided on the tiny country of Lebanon as the “monster” that threatens them – and also, because there are probably pieces of Lebanese territory that Israel covets.
israel wants control of the Litani River and has for decades.
Any scenario except the one where the US didn’t promise to back Israel when they were getting their ass slapped around by Hezbollah. You wouldn’t hear a peep out of that turd otherwise.
It should be obvious now that my prediction of an upcoming war between Israel and Hezbollah is correct. The only question is when and how.
Apparently the upcoming Israeli elections have forced Netanyahu’s hand somewhat and he is forced to deliberately escalate the situation without Hezbollah even having initiated it – or being able to be blamed for initiating it. That somewhat surprises me. I assumed Israel would foment an incident on the border that it could blame on Hezbollah. Instead Israel deliberately attacked Hezbollah with drones, forcing a Hezbollah response.
The bit about Israel placing dummy soldiers on the border the other day is in reference to the cause of the 2006 war. Hezbollah kidnapped two soldiers who were conveniently out of sight of their command post. Israel knew Hezbollah were looking to kidnap soldiers, so they set it up. Then Israel claimed justification for attacking Hezbollah. But in reality they had been planning that war for at least a year previously.
Of course, the US electorate is clueless. Once the war starts, Trump and Netanyahu will parrot the line that Hezbollah is a “terrorist group threatening Israel” – and everyone (except us here) will fall in line with the US joining Israel in attacking Lebanon.
Remember General Wesley Clark saying he had heard of a document saying that 7 Mid-East countries would be attacked? Well, the only two remaining on that list are Lebanon and Iran.
Lebanon is next. The neocons and Israel will never stop until Iran is destroyed – and Lebanon’s Hezbollah is the only thing standing in the way of that.
Israel is all in for self-defense, just like Germany was in 1939 when Poland attacked that German border radio station. Of course Germany had to protect itself- those Poles were just itching for a fight!