Hezbollah responded to an Israeli drone strike earlier Tuesday by launching a flurry of drone attacks against Mount Neria. An Israeli spokesman also reporting drone attacks near Mount Meron and rocket fire against the city of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.
In addition, Hezbollah rockets were fired against the western Galilee settlement of Tsurial for the first time. Israeli reports are that two Israelis were wounded in the attacks.
The Israeli attack took place in the south Lebanon village of Shaqra, killing one person and wounding several others. The reported drone strike targeted a vehicle in the village that was used to sell candy and snacks to locals.
Israeli warplanes are also reported to have broken the sound barrier over the Lebanese capital city of Beirut, producing two loud booms and rattling nerves. Such incidents are not unheard of, but why Israeli is doing this right now is not clear. Israel did not offer any comments on the matter.
What is clear is that tensions have been rising between Israel and Hezbollah for months, leading to escalatory attacks against one another across the border, with Israel openly threatening to expand the operation into a full-scale invasion of Lebanon.
Hezbollah leaders have sought to downplay the risks of such an invasion, saying they don’t believe Israel is in a position to launch such a war right now with Israel already nine months into a brutal invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The article states “ killing one person” the Zionist State of Israel is murdering people, there is a major difference.
Can the US borrow enough money for more war?
So long as there are willing lenders. And so far they've had no trouble selling their debt.
I've read war debt interest will soon surpass the actual military budget.
In 2025, interest on federal debt will be ~35% of Federal Income
Won't work, obvious traitors on thr loose.
Me too. It will cannabalize everything, SocSec, Medicre, education, environment, infrastructure, ….
That is the point of Project 2025.
Effectively. The neocon agenda of expanding the military, and the neolib agenda of starving the “welfare state”, and cutting regs and taxes.
wse need to make a new country.
That's been the program since the 1990s, neo-con 'thought leader' Grover Norquist openly said that they were going to explode the debt to the point where everything had to be cut, nothing would be left in the budget but the military and debt servicing. He posted on his web site that their goal was to shrink the Federal government to the size where, "I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the tub."
As long as the donor class does not pick up the tab.
uou mean the “creditor class”?
“Let there be Peace on Earth and let it begin with me… With every step I take, a Peace for eternity!!! With God as our father, Christ as the son and Mary as the Mother, let their be Peace on Earth for everyone of us!”
Make sure you get that "False Flag Operation" in time for Netanyahu's speech. Do you expect him to just use props at the speech? Regional wars don't start themselves, people.
Meanwhile:
Jeffrey Sachs: Palestinian factions agreement 'extremely positive and important'
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X2rTINHPT9g
China / Diplomacy
Palestinian factions agree to end division in pact brokered by China
Leaders of 14 factions sign Beijing Declaration calling for unity after talks in the Chinese capital
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3271553/palestinian-factions-agree-end-division-pact-brokered-china?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
Background:
Thanks to Hamas, Israel is running out of tanks, spare parts and ammo. The mighty Israeli army is using psychological warfare on Lebanon to compensate for its cowardice and defeat in face to face combat. If they were to attack, a likely outcome is Hizbullah would occupy the northern Galilee. Let's keep supporting the Israelis. We, who went in to Afghanistan to oust the Taliban only to bring them back twenty years later.
Hezbollah has not yet attempted to hit chlorine and ammonia plants, as well as other facilities. The video by one of their drones displayed some of those facilities. Hezbollah knows their coordinates and has more sophisticated rockets in its arsenal. You bet Bibi will implore the U.S. to join in.
Israel is NOT in a position to invade Lebanon. They haven't been for years.
That means nothing. Scott Ritter made the same mistake yesterday on Garland Nixon's show, claiming that since the IDF is objectively in a bad way, short on tanks, ammo, their troops exhausted from 10 months of fighting, Israel can't invade Lebanon and can't win if they do.
What he fails to understand is that Israel does not intend to win against Hezbollah…on its own. They fully expect the US to enter the war directly, with air and naval powe, and if necessary, boots on the ground.
Note that the US Navy's WASP Amphibious Assault Group is currently stationed at Soudo Bay, in Greece, with over 2,000 Marines and sailors. This replaces the Marine Marine Expeditionary Unit that was previously stationed in the Red Sea last fall when the Middle East crisis erupted.
The point I'm making is that it DOES NOT MATTER whether either the US or Israel can in fact take out Hezbollah. What matters is that they BELIEVE the US can do this. Ritter doesn't get this.
Ritter believes Netanyahu is coming to Washington to deck himself in the US flag so that he can return to Israel and continue to act as its leader. I believe Netanyahu is coming to Washington to nail down US military support for his and the US neocons' plans to eliminate the Palestinians, Hezbollah, Syria, Yemen and Iran – probably in that order, if not all at once.
Ask Andrei Martyanov whether there is any military competence left in the US or NATO militaries, or whether there ever was any military comptence in the civilian political leaders.
So again, it doesn't matter whether the US and Israel objectively can defeat Hamas, or Hezbollah. What matters is that they – out of ignorance and chutzpah and a mythology of their military omnipotence after decades of bombing defenseless civilians – BELIEVE they can.
Too much jet fuel from US props making noise…!
If low enough, you would think that small arms fire would bring one down. Or a 50.
Max Blumenthal retweeted
Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie
SOLIDARITY: Labor Unions Join MASSIVE Anti-Netanyahu Protest in DC
https://rumble.com/v587nm1-solidarity-labor-unions-join-massive-anti-netanyahu-protest-in-dc.html
If all unions do not vote democratic this November, just stay home, it would put a dent into the Harris aspirations. Swing states with a certain demographic that voted for Biden in 2020 may not due to the genocide in Gaza that the U.S. has allowed to continue for months. Democratic party walking on thin ice.
They are working culture identity politics hard and the GOP is helping.