Tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement are rising this weekend, with both sides threatening to retaliate against the other, and Israel’s Prime Minister suggesting he would treat Lebanon as responsible for any attack, whether it was Hezbollah or not.
Israel tends to be either at war with Lebanon, on the brink of war with Lebanon, or preparing for a next war while promising to hit Lebanon even harder next time. Lebanon has a very small military, but Hezbollah’s militia forces are substantial, and gives them capacity to retaliate, if attacked.
This started with Israel striking southern Lebanon on Thursday, and retaliatory fire being attributed to Hezbollah the next day. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has since promised a “suitable and proportionate” response to any further Israeli attacks.
That’s where the situation can quickly escalate, as Israel has grown quite comfortable with the idea that there should be no response to an Israeli attack on a neighboring nation, and that any retaliation is itself a new escalation that justifies further attacks.
At the same time, Israel conceded that Hezbollah had deliberately fired only in open areas on Friday, showing a capacity for retaliation without specifically trying to start anything by going after populated areas. Israel is also saying they don’t want to escalate the situation, which is unusual compared to other recent governments, which seemed eager to parlay any tensions into a serious exchange.
More specifically, it is Lebanon’s water sources that are responsible for the attacks upon Israel.
It is Lebanon’s jealousy of Israeli gas fields that are the cause of the hostility.
Really?
The election of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2001 was a major turning point. Palestine’s sovereignty over the offshore gas fields was challenged in the Israeli Supreme Court. Sharon stated unequivocally that “Israel would never buy gas from Palestine” intimating that Gaza’s offshore gas reserves belong to Israel.
The Apartheid state isn’t going to “buy” anything it can steal. The ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza is strongly connected to stealing the Palestinian offshore natural gas.
Did you graduate the first grade? We were speaking of Lebanon. Read the article,read my statement.
Fellow, you made a nonsensical remark about Lebanese jealousy of the pissant state’s gas – presumably to divert attention from richardvajs’ spot-on post about the Zionists lusting after Lebanon’s water. God’s Favorite People steal things. Land. Lives. Energy. And of course water.
The reason the Apartheid state is so desperate to have somebody destroy Iran is that Iran is the sponsor of Hezbollah, and Hezbollah protects Lebanon. To get Lebanon’s land and water means the US must be forced into smashing Iran.
No doubt their Blackmail and Bribery specialists are already on the case. Quite possibly Apple’s scheme to ‘examine’ every photograph on every iphone will play into the Blackmail scheme.
BTW, if I had to use the things, I wouldn’t accept any kind of Apple device, even if they were free.
Provide some substantiation for your lurid fantasies.
Israeli gas fields? – and just who do they really belong to?
Look on the maps-then make your own decision.
Now that was funny, but not even close to being true on planet earth…
You have said absolutely nothing.
“That’s where the situation can quickly escalate, as Israel has grown quite comfortable with the idea that there should be no response to an Israeli attack on a neighboring nation, and that any retaliation is itself a new escalation that justifies further attacks.”
In a nutshell.
TL:DR: “Any excuse will do to rationalize an attack.”
It is good to see politicians who are so openly dishonest and manipulative.