Israeli Southern Command head Gen. Eliezer Toledano downplayed the current ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, predicting it would end soon and that what’s happened so far was just the first stage of a wider military campaign.
The May conflict saw Israeli forces kill an estimated 256 Palestinians, and displace 72,000 civilians. This was in just two weeks, and was, according to Toledano, Israel trying to “make the most” of the war before the ceasefire.
“We don’t have operations like this every week or every month because we understand the burden that puts on civilians, especially on the home front. And therefore when we launched the operation, we had to make the most of it,” the general noted.
He went on to say that the military is fully ready for another round of fighting, depending on the security situation.
Other Israeli officials have been hyping the war so far as a huge success, while Toledano called to avoid “hasty comments.” He said that the wars “are complicated in terms of the rockets.”
Pure evil.
Israel’s reluctance to use nothing but air power and artillery in Gaza does not bode well for the future. The only way to completely stop missile fire is complete occupation of the Resistances territory or genocide. The failure of the IDF ground forces in 2006 against Hezbollah’s local forces (essentially a militia) and the failure to even use ground forces to attack Gaza recently suggests that the supremacy of the IDF is gone, probably never to return. The acquisition of effective air defence and counter battery defence systems by the Resistance such as Hezbollah will hasten the end of supremacy. So a “wider war” will probably result in Israel disappearing from the pages of history.
Limiting the sights of body bags is the now normal. Drones, controlled by operators many miles away, American made F-16s, heavy artillery are the modes of warfare now.
Also, Israel HAS THE BOMB.
I agree with your assessment.
The 2006 debacle in Lebanon is still haunting Israel. Israeli ground forces were immediately routed right over the border with what Israel assumed at the time was overwhelming force.
Supposedly, the announced ground invasion of Gaza suffered a similar fate. That is denied by Israel of course. Since media outlets in Gaza were destroyed, we will probably never know the truth.
Further, this means a ground invasion of Israel is a real possibility now. Israel has shown it can only win with overwhelming airpower. Well, that will be of no help at all if Israeli cities are infiltrated by enemy ground forces.
Unless IDF is willing to level Israeli apartment buildings and kill Israeli citizens like they do Palestinians.
BDS
“Israeli Southern Command head Gen. Eliezer Toledano downplayed the current ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, predicting it would end soon”
Indeed. As soon as the Iron Dome is replenished. Thank you Uncle Sam.
Correction: thank you President Biden…………………
I’ll stick with Uncle Sam. A large majority of both houses of congress are behind him. A real effort to stop him would.
Here is an article that looks at how Americans view the conflict between Israel and Palestine:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2021/06/how-americans-view-israelipalestinian.html
With president after president from both sides of the political spectrum attempting to solve the Middle East dilemma over the past seven decades, this analysis shows us that the current Democratic administration is going to find it nearly impossible to impose a solution on the Israeli/Palestinian issue, particularly given that a substantial portion of their base is now backing the Palestinian side of the conflict.
Israel has always intended to incorporate that real estate. It may be they’ve decided now is the time, …that that’s what Toledano is alluding to.
The settlements could be hit quite hard from Jordan. The stability of Jordan as safe for whatever the Israelis do has been abused and taken for granted. This could test it too far. The Syrian War refugees, Iraq War refugees, Palestinian refugees, and the outrages on the al Aqsa Mosque are testing Jordan already.
Murderous motherf*ckers. And that is putting it mildly.