For the second time this month, Hezbollah reports targeting an Israeli Air Command Center in northern Israel with rockets. The base, on the top of Mt. Meron, was heavily used for aerial command before it was badly damaged earlier this month, in a Hezbollah retaliation to an assassination.
This time, Hezbollah is reporting the strikes were in response to further assassinations as well as Israeli attacks on civilians in southern Lebanon and Syria. Hezbollah’s comments on Syria likely refer to a Damascus attack that killed five Iranian advisors in a residential building that was destroyed.
The assassinations have occurred intermittently in Lebanon, with senior officials targeted as opportunity presents itself. The most recent such attack killed a Hezbollah operative, yet reportedly the main target of the drone strike was able to survive.
The latest string of tit-for-tat strikes began with the assassination of Saleh Arouri, a Hamas figure who was responsible for hostage exchanges, who was killed in Beirut. Hezbollah, angered by the strikes on the Lebanese capital, responded with rocket fire against various Israeli targets, and seems to favor hitting the Mt. Meron base as a high-profile, poorly defended site.
Israel has made a big deal about using the Iron Dome system to shoot down incoming missiles fired at its territory, yet Hezbollah largely uses rockets meant for anti-tank fire, and the defensive system is generally not effective at intercepting these.
Increasingly, Israel is focusing on southern Lebanon as a legitimate war zone, and it is being called a war in every way but the official name. Ground operations are talked about as if they are inevitable, with Israel amassing tens of thousands of troops in the north. The number of troops preparing for the fight with Hezbollah is nearly the same as that currently deployed in the open-ended Gaza Strip war.
The United States has reportedly warned Israel against such an expansion, arguing that they are so busy with Gaza they risk spreading the military too thin with a sudden Lebanon invasion. Israeli officials, however, appear confident they’ll get US support on the conflict either way, and, having positioned fights against Hezbollah as de facto proxy battles with Iran, seem to be strongly leaning toward an invasion.
ITV interviews Palestinian waving white flag. Moments after interview the man is shot by a Zionist sniper.
Simplicius – Next level brainwashing in Zionist schools
Max Blumenthal interviews Ansar Allah Spokesman
Does rooting for the organization opposing Genocide and slaughter make one a traitor to the country helping the killers or a server for humanity?
And what organization is that opposing genocide?-Israel opposes the extermination of its people.
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza!
Israel is a racist colonialist monster!
Israel is evil and support for Israel is evil.
End US aid to Israel!
End welfare!
Its “people” need to go back where they came from. An occupier has no right to self defense.
They have come back to the promised land of Israel,to King David’s city.
Israel was responsible for killing large numbers of Israeli’s on October 7th via the Hannibal Directive. They have made their bed and can sleep in it while it burns..
A server of humanity.
Not only the Cotton Dome cannot shoot down anti tank shells, but it is also weak in intercepting a group of regular missiles…!
… but very profitable for Gen. Austin & Raytheon.
Is it not also profitable for Israel itself? Are we not paying Israel to use it? It’s nice to have an uncle who’s willing to pay for all your expenses and profits at the same time.
The old 1930’s fantasy that everything is about money-how quaint.
What a stupid comment. Of course it’s about money, US money that Isteal spends to kill innocent Palestinians and to commit other war crimes.
End US aid to Israel!
Stop the genocide!
Let us not over simplify this, too much.
The best way to avert War is by utilizing Peace.
Good job, Donna.
And be clubbed and arrested by the police for assembling to demand peace. That’s how it works.
Yes-stop the genocide-release Israeli women being used as sex slaves!-or is that Ok with you?
Yes, release those women under a flag of truce so they can be gunned down by trigger-happy Israelis.
Right, and the uncle is using our money -meant for health care, education, environment, …, in addition to borrowing heavily from our children and grandchildren.
Sorry, Robert. Biden’s not finished yet. He’ll take away Medicare and Social Security before he’s done.
… 4 mor years! Slava Israel!
Here’s a good one for you: https://x.com/S_C_Fit/status/1750105236872613918?s=20
They like them young! oops
He is on record as calling the programs “sacred cows”. I believe he said that in 1993. I could be wrong. As a young senator, he favored the balanced budget amendment presented by the Republicans. Obama presented the idea of means testing of recipients of Social Security, which would have opened the door to cuts.
Agreed
Unless your children and grandchildren buy T-bills, the US regime isn’t borrowing from them — it’s using them as collateral.
… selling a mortgage on their working lives. Unless they graduate from Harvard and join a Neocon think tank, law firm, media outlet, ….
Transfers here, transfers there, pretty soon (say 50 years), we’ll be talking about real money, except that for an economic system like ours it’s all funny money, backed by the phony faith and fiat credit of the government that employs its military machinery to keep the planetary monetary system under its thumb.
now a decent idea.
All of our military crapola is paid by deficit spending, avoiding the dreaded word; TAXES.
Around $3.8 billion per year, that we know of. Who knows what comes out of the budget of the dark assets, and the hidden books of the finances. AIPAC demands it, or, no money for political contests.
“That we know of” is the operative phrase and the Devil is in the details.
The best way to avert War is by utilizing Peace…
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Hez should use anti-tank missiles against Iron Dome batteries, as they are surface to air missile and defenceless against ground units thereby kicking the door down for further defensive attacks
“Defensive attacks”-contradiction in terms-shows where you are coming from.
What? … so Israel has exclusive rights on “defend itself”? … like their patent on “victim, eh Jake?
Makes no sense again. don’t whine when Israel nukes its tormentors.
… meaning women & children, eh?
If Hezbollah brings a genocidal war,then Lebanese civilians will suffer.
The ancient peoples of Palestine are fighting for their land, a noble and righteous cause. The malefactor, Israel, unable to cow them have into abject submission, has ventured into “the final solution”.
You are an evil person.
Don’t whine when Israel is driven into the sea.
End the genocide. Defeat Israel.
Oh tell me how Israel is going to be driven into the sea? 75 years Israel haters have been saying that, and yet Israel is still going.
Israel will suffer greatly if they continue their present course in Gaza. The Israel haters have been joined by the genocide haters. The horror in Gaza can only be tolerated for so long.
Which “hater” are you?
I hate genocide, those attempting genocide and those who support those attempting genocide.
Wow! All three of the same personage have come forth! Jake, Don Julio, Tim Burns! All for one and one for all! Admit it. The three personages are one d*mn person.
Trump is on the way!!!
If Israel were to be driven into the sea,it would please you greatly.Admit it.
Coming from the guy that justifies genocide as defensive. I can’t say tis enough, you really are a disgusting piece of excrement.
Love you right back ,Baby.If entering a peaceful town,torture.castrate, and kill the men,take the enemies women away for rape and forrced breeding-If that isn’t genocide,I don’t know what is.
Even if your exaggerated bullshit actually happened, you know damn well it’s not a genocide. You just wanted another reason to rattle off more Israeli propaganda to deflect away from the real genocide going on in Gaza. You know the numbers, so I won’t bother with posting them again.
Hamas tried and itends to genocide Israel,pleasing its own sadism and that of its master.
You’re so obvious. When backed into a corner with facts, right back to the meaningless platitudes.
And yet Israel terms its attacks on Gaza as defensive.
You’re evil & stupid jake. a real waste of oxygen.
Blocked jake a long time ago. Contributes nothing here.
Yeah, go tell them.
It’s super easy to do.
Anti-tank missiles have limited range. Iron Dome batteries are well out of range.
The Israelis are right about Biden, who will do whatever they require.
I can imagine his cell phone or home office phone, has a special call button from AIPAC, that lights up, delivering a message telling him that he has to toe the mark or no money will be sprinkled henceforth.
My opinion. Biden’s unconditional support is directly tied to financing the upcoming reelection campaign. These are the actions of a man who has no ethical or moral core. He is a robot.
No mainstream candidates for president are different when it comes to support for Israel and none are likely to be as long as the lobby is able to wield the power it wields now.
Nearly all American politicians have done whatever the Israel lobby requires and they have for a long time. They do it because the lobby can destroy the electoral chances of nearly any candidate for federal office in the US (and many state and local offices). The lobby can also be very generous to candidates who follow their wishes, but the more powerful leverage is the power to destroy political careers.