Iran’s mission to the UN has warned Israel that a full-scale attack on Lebanon would result in an “obliterating war” that could involve all of Iran’s allies in the region.
The mission wrote on X that it believes Israel’s recent threats against Lebanon could be “psychological warfare” and “propaganda” but said that if Israel does “embark on full-scale military aggression, an obliterating war will ensue.”
The mission added, “All options, including the full involvement of all Resistance Fronts, are on the table.”
It’s unclear if Iran would directly intervene if Israel invades southern Lebanon, but it’s likely that Shia militias allied with Iran and Hezbollah would get involved. A full-scale war in Lebanon could also involve the US, as the White House reportedly conveyed to Lebanon that it would support Israel against Hezbollah.
The US claims it is working to ease tensions on the Lebanon-Israel border, but it continues to provide military aid to Israel despite continued escalations and threats. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant recently threatened that Israel could bomb Lebanon “back to the stone age.”
Amos Hochstein, an advisor to President Biden who has been serving as an envoy to discuss Israel-Lebanon tensions, warned Beirut that the US cannot hold Israel back from launching a full-scale war.
Israeli media has reported that the Israeli military is not expected to be able to handle opening a second front in Lebanon due to losses it has taken in Gaza, signaling Israel might look for the US to bail it out if it invades.
Sure they can. Stop funding and fueling it.
All the US would need to do is tell them we will not support or help and Iz will not do anything. They have a hard time taking Gaza … what the heck would they do against the 100,000 rockets and dedicated fighters of HB?
There is a line being drawn here that should not be crossed.
“Should” is never a consideration of psychopaths.
Terrible for Lebanon and Iran, but will also be terrible for Israel and for us. Nuclear weapons are likely to be used. Will Russia and China allow the destruction of Iran? Russia loses Iran's regional support and China the oil supply, which makes it more susceptible to a US oil embargo. Can the world economy survive a decrease of 30% of its oil? Sounds like all the ingredients for a world war. But all of you probably heard all this before, Biden definitely doesn't care.
Oye Vey!
Amos Hochstein, an Israeli-American who has served in the IDF, issuing warnings to the Lebanese government. He is doing so as a representative of the United States. What is wrong with this picture and what is wrong with Americans?? Where are the patriots to say this is unacceptable? How can there not be a conflict of interests? How can this be in the genuine interests of the US?
“George Washington, a Briton-American who has served in the British army, issuing warnings to the French government to recall Edmond-Charles Genet. He is doing so as a representative of the United States. What is wrong with this picture and what is wrong with Americans?? Where are the patriots to say this is unacceptable? How can there not be a conflict of interests? How can this be in the genuine interests of the US?”
Nope, not the same. All American colonists were British citizens. But then many of them chose to revolt and become Americans. After that, any Amercian who continued to work for the Brits was called what?
If unclear about Washington's view of the potential conflicted loyalties of 1st gen Americans born elsewhere, read some of his writings on the subject.
Lastly, the OP is talking about a person who actually served in a foreign army! There is no more clear way to declare your true loyalties than serving in a foreign country's armed forces.
The American colonists were "subjects" of the British crown. Only after independence was successfully won did they become "citizens".
If Amos led a war to free America from Israeli rule he'd be the greatest patriot since George Washington.
Israel and the US are two separate entities,whose interests may coincide or not. Israel simply does not rule the US.
How many Israelis have left Israel since the war?
What might have been temporary escape for Israelis has turned into permanent migration, report says. More than half a million Israelis left the country and did not return during the first six months of the Israel-Hamas war, the Times of Israel reported Sunday, citing the Population and Immigration Authority. Jun 24, 2024
Some might forget that Iran has become a member of BRICS. Russia and China are with Iran or have good and useful relations with Iran. These great powers may very well intervene if or when Iran needs help.
A potential war of the militaristic arrogant zio state and army with Hzbollah could include Lebanon, Iran, the Middle East region, and turn into a wider conflict including China and Russia. Such a war or conflict would be very detrimental for the zio state and its supporters.
For now it would be best for all sides to calm down and seek a realistic, diplomatic, as much as possible durable, and peaceful resolution of the current issues and simmering conflicts.
Here in the US diplomacy is for wimps, not real men.
"The US claims it is working to ease tensions on the Lebanon-Israel border…"
This sentence indicates Dave has more of a clue than Kyle.
"signaling Israel might look for the US to bail it out if it invades."
There is no "might" involved. This was the plan since before October 7, indeed since at least 2006, maybe 2000, maybe even before.
Human beings* are a biological species possessed of biases and prejudices, which manifest in self interest.
The self interest of human beings embodies itself in the Nation State.
The Palestinians and the recovery of Palestine or the modern re-creation of a Palestinian State is not in the self interest of the United States, China, Russia, England, Saudi Arabia, Iran, or any Nation State.
Some think and document “The Hundred Years' War on Palestine” from 1917.**
The official British government documents with the words of the elected British Government officeholders and appointed officials show the British government's intention to create a Jewish state in Palestine, with a total and deliberate disregard for the rights and interests of the Palestinian Arabs.**
A more accurate, and historically documented, is a War on Palestine starting 1798.***
The present War on The Palestinians and the recovery of Palestine or the modern re-creation of a Palestinian State will continue simply because it is in no Nation States’ self interest for the creation of a State of Palestine.
Yes! Yemen is one of the least developed countries in the world, facing significant obstacles to sustainable development, and is one of the poorest countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Yes! Hezbollah (Party of Allah or Party of God) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group, led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
Its armed strength is assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army.
Political realism dictates Yemen and Hezbollah are not Nation States in relation to Israel and, its benefactor and mirror image, the United States, both of whom possess nuclear arsenals.
The Palestinians and a Palestinian State are in no one’s self interest.
dennis hanna
*Human beings are born with 24 different DNA types in the human genome.
The human being evolves from his/her mother’s milk, to family socialization, to religious indoctrination, to community socialization, to education indoctrination and ultimately to individual, to community and to governmental/national self interest.
The Palestinian people are in no country’s governmental or national self interest.
The Palestinian people have been warred upon by the Hebrew mythologists self interest, the European, particularly the British, self interest, the American self interest, the Israeli self interest and the Arab self interest.
The ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people will continue until it is complete.
That’s the history; that’s current affairs and that’s the future.
**The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
by Rashid Khalidi
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.
** “The Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict”.
by Doreen Ingrams
The official British Government records in this book prove clearly that during and after the First World War British Government ministers and officials intentionally rather than negligently created the groundwork for a Jewish state in Palestine, while deliberately keeping the British Government's intentions from the indigenous population of Palestinians and the surrounding countries of Arabs. The official British government documents with the words of the elected British Government officeholders and appointed officials, Ms. Ingrams shows clearly and unequivocally the deceit with which British Ministers at that time and subsequently committed themselves to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, with a total and deliberate disregard for the rights and interests of the Palestinian Arabs. The population of Palestine at the time numbered 92 per cent Arab.
***Napoleon’s Egypt,
Invading the Middle East
by Juan Cole
Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage. He paints a multi-faceted portrait of the daily travails of the soldiers in Napoleon's army, including how they imagined Egypt, how their expectations differed from what they found, and how they grappled with military challenges in a foreign land. Cole ultimately reveals how Napoleon's invasion, the first modern attempt to invade the Arab world, invented and crystallized the rhetoric of liberal imperialism.
Napoleon and the French army left Egypt in 1799, but the French remained in Egypt for another two years, until they finally surrendered to the British on Sept. 2, 1801 turning over, among other things, the prized Rosetta stone.
Before he departed in October 1799, Napoleon captured Gaza and Jaffa (part of modern Tel Aviv), but the roguish Sir Sidney Smith engineered a huge British victory at Acre, the city known as “the key to Palestine.”
Human beings* are a biological species possessed of biases and prejudices, which manifest in self interest.
The self interest of human beings embodies itself in the Nation State.
The Palestinians and the recovery of Palestine or the modern re-creation of a Palestinian State is not in the self interest of the United States, China, Russia, England, Saudi Arabia, Iran, or any Nation State.
Some think and document “The Hundred Years' War on Palestine” from 1917.**
The official British government documents with the words of the elected British Government officeholders and appointed officials show the British government's intention to create a Jewish state in Palestine, with a total and deliberate disregard for the rights and interests of the Palestinian Arabs.**
A more accurate, and historically documented, is a War on Palestine starting 1798.***
The present War on The Palestinians and the recovery of Palestine or the modern re-creation of a Palestinian State will continue simply because it is in no Nation States’ self interest for the creation of a State of Palestine.
Yes! Yemen is one of the least developed countries in the world, facing significant obstacles to sustainable development, and is one of the poorest countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Yes! Hezbollah (Party of Allah or Party of God) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group, led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
Its armed strength is assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army.
Political realism dictates Yemen and Hezbollah are not Nation States in relation to Israel and, its benefactor and mirror image, the United States, both of whom possess nuclear arsenals.
The Palestinians and a Palestinian State are in no one’s self interest.
dennis hanna
*Human beings are born with 24 different DNA types in the human genome.
The human being evolves from his/her mother’s milk, to family socialization, to religious indoctrination, to community socialization, to education indoctrination and ultimately to individual, to community and to governmental/national self interest.
The Palestinian people are in no country’s governmental or national self interest.
The Palestinian people have been warred upon by the Hebrew mythologists self interest, the European, particularly the British, self interest, the American self interest, the Israeli self interest and the Arab self interest.
The ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people will continue until it is complete.
That’s the history; that’s current affairs and that’s the future.
**The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
by Rashid Khalidi
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.
** “The Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict”.
by Doreen Ingrams
The official British Government records in this book prove clearly that during and after the First World War British Government ministers and officials intentionally rather than negligently created the groundwork for a Jewish state in Palestine, while deliberately keeping the British Government's intentions from the indigenous population of Palestinians and the surrounding countries of Arabs. The official British government documents with the words of the elected British Government officeholders and appointed officials, Ms. Ingrams shows clearly and unequivocally the deceit with which British Ministers at that time and subsequently committed themselves to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, with a total and deliberate disregard for the rights and interests of the Palestinian Arabs. The population of Palestine at the time numbered 92 per cent Arab.
***Napoleon’s Egypt,
Invading the Middle East
by Juan Cole
Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage. He paints a multi-faceted portrait of the daily travails of the soldiers in Napoleon's army, including how they imagined Egypt, how their expectations differed from what they found, and how they grappled with military challenges in a foreign land. Cole ultimately reveals how Napoleon's invasion, the first modern attempt to invade the Arab world, invented and crystallized the rhetoric of liberal imperialism.
Napoleon and the French army left Egypt in 1799, but the French remained in Egypt for another two years, until they finally surrendered to the British on Sept. 2, 1801 turning over, among other things, the prized Rosetta stone.
Before he departed in October 1799, Napoleon captured Gaza and Jaffa (part of modern Tel Aviv), but the roguish Sir Sidney Smith engineered a huge British victory at Acre, the city known as “the key to Palestine.”