Early Sunday, Israel announced it was launching “preemptive strikes” against Hezbollah in Lebanon and carried out what appeared to be its largest bombing of southern Lebanon since the start of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.
The Israeli military said 100 fighter jets launched strikes against 40 targets and claimed that it destroyed missile launchers that were aimed at northern and central Israel, although Hezbollah denied the claim and said most strikes hit empty areas.
Shortly after Israel launched its attack, Hezbollah announced it was starting its retaliation for the assassination of Fuad Shukr, a Hezbollah commander who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on July 30.
Hezbollah said it launched dozens of drones and more than 320 Katyusha rockets into Israel. The Israeli military said it thwarted the Hezbollah attack, but Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah claimed the operation was a success and hit its intended military targets.
While the exchange of fire was one of the heaviest of the conflict, the reported casualties are relatively low. According to CBS News, Lebanese officials said the Israeli strikes killed three people in Lebanon. An Israeli soldier aboard a naval vessel was killed, and two others were hurt during the Hezbollah rocket and drone barrage. The Israeli military believes they were hit by shrapnel from Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.
Nasrallah said the main target of Hezbollah’s attack was the Unit 8200 intelligence base in northern Tel Aviv and air defenses in central Israel. He accused Israel of lying about intercepting the attack, saying that “a significant number of drones hit their intended targets, but the enemy is keeping all relevant details concealed, but the days and nights will reveal the truth of what happened there.”
According to Al Mayadeen, Nasrallah said Hezbollah would monitor the aftermath of the attack on Israel, and if it were deemed satisfactory, that would be sufficient as a response to the killing of Shukr. If not, he said Hezbollah reserves the right to launch another major attack for the Shukr killing.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also claimed success but said the strikes on Lebanon were not the “end of the story.” He said the Israeli military “destroyed thousands of short-range rockets, and all of them were aimed at harming our citizens and our forces in the Galilee.”
Israeli sources told Axios that Israel informed the US ahead of its strikes on Lebanon. “Israel is acting alone against Hezbollah, but in full coordination with the US. The update the Biden administration received was not in the 90th minute,” a senior Israeli official said.
While the Israeli official said Israel was “acting alone,” the US has deployed more military assets to the region for the purpose of defending Israel if things escalate into a larger conflict. The US is also vowing to help protect Israel from any Iranian reprisal attack for the Israeli killing of Hamas’s political chief in Tehran. US and Israeli officials are still expecting an Iranian attack to happen.
Glory to Yisra'ēl
Big fan of bum torture, eh?
That incident, which was wrong, has nothing to do with the successful and necessary pre-emptive strike by Israel.
From the public reaction to the arrest of the 9, appears the whole sicko country approved and enjoyed it, … making it likely it’s routine in all the torture centers, … and probably a chapter in their torture manual … (also used to train CIA) …
It has everything to do with who is the real terrorist. And by leaps and bounds.
Israel is a nation of sadists, thieves, torturers, & murderers.
Death to Israel!
It is just this sort of hatred that justifies Zionism.
How does that work Jake?
I liked 90% of the Jews I’ve known and have loved more than a few.
If you notice, each of my insulting adjectives refers to specific action, and a strong case can be made for at least three of the four, since polls show that only 4-7% of Israelis think their nation has gone too far in Gaza.
It’s difficult to escape concluding that Israel is a nation of monsters.
Violent settler colonialism has that effect.
Zionism is precisely as justifiable as any other ethno-nationalism, be it Nazism, Baathism, the Aryan Nations, et al.
Which is to say not justifiable at all.
It was forced on people due to the failure of assimilation.,the Dreyfus affair,the Pogroms,the holocaust. Most people don't get up andleave when they have a decent dea at home. Without US colonial nationalism, we would all be drinking tea.
Take hostages, butcher unarmed families,reap the harvest.
“Israeli forces have arbitrarily detained and tortured healthcare workers in Gaza since the start of the latest war on the enclave in October, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday.
According to the rights group, Israeli forces are abducting medical workers to detention facilities in Israel, where they are tortured and mistreated.
Doctors, nurses and paramedics released from Israeli detention told HRW they were humiliated, beaten and were put in blindfolds and handcuffs for prolonged periods of time.
The detention of medical staff coupled with the bombardment of medical facilities and hospitals has further destroyed the healthcare sector in the enclave, leaving people unable to get essential medical treatment.”
So yeah, Thieves, liars, torturers and murderers.
Death to Israel!
So you would slaughter millions for the bad actions of some. I used to be offended by the stories about the Palmer raids,now bring them back.
I’m not slaughtering anyone.
You must have me confused with Bibi.
” I used to be offended by the stories about the Palmer raids, now bring them back.”
I see. You think critics of Israel should be deported. I think Zionists should be banned from the Foreign service.
Anyway, I’m not an immigrant. My family has been in the US since 1690.
Yours?
BTW, your support for reinstituting the Palmer Raids is one more reason for me to hate Zionists.
You bastards are a direct threats to my right to Free Speech, Assembly & Press.
Stop the Zionist assault on Freedom in America!
The Palmer Raids and Red Summer occurred during the First Red Scare
Red Summer was a period in mid-1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots occurred in more than three dozen cities across the United States, and in one rural county in Arkansas.
In most instances, attacks consisted of white-on-black violence. Numerous African Americans fought back, notably in the Chicago and Washington, D.C., race riots, which resulted in 38 and 15 deaths respectively, along with even more injuries, and extensive property damage in Chicago.[3] Still, the highest number of fatalities occurred in the rural area around Elaine, Arkansas, where an estimated 100–240 black people and five white people were killed—an event now known as the Elaine massacre.
wikipedia, Red Summer
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“The Israeli army uses quadcopters electronically remotely for multiple purposes, starting with surveillance and espionage, in addition to issuing displacement orders, terrorizing civilians by making disturbing sounds, and most dangerously, using them as a tool to kill and harm Palestinians,” The Euro-Mediterranean added.
Moreover, other health workers in Gaza have also testified that how these drones are unleashed by Israel in horrific ways.
“We saw the quadcopters targeted children. We saw young men targeted with rifle shots to their thighs to try to require amputation of their legs,” Nabeel Rana, a vascular surgeon in North Carolina who volunteered at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza for three weeks in June and July, said in a press conference held on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on 20 August.
“There were quadcopters targeting men in their groins and genitals. They would come in with no other injuries and would lose their testicles. They’re healthy young men, but they will never have kids,” he added.
Death to Israel!
The letter sent by Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar to the prime minister, cabinet members and the attorney general, in which he warns that Jewish terror is a danger to the state’s existence, constitutes a flashing warning light.
In any normal country, there would be no hesitation in doing the right thing. They would remove the radical right from the government and instruct security services to treat Jewish terror with the same gravity they do with Palestinian terror.
But as long as National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich remain in the government, it will be impossible to fight Jewish terror. As long as the former is in charge of the police and the latter is in charge of the occupied territories, Jewish terror will know that it has the backing of higher authorities.
At least,Israelis are free to criticize.In the Arab world,free speech gets the speaker a bullet or a bottle you know where.
I’m sure the Arab World is fine with criticism of Zionist Terrorism.
Big fan of H*tler, eh?
I hear Waffen-SS Nederlands has a space open for you
Clearly the only people who even remotely resemble nazis are the doublespeaking and lying Zionists
So Hamas had prepared lists of the names and addresses of the people in each village they attacked,and wiped out everyone they found-sounds like the Nazis in Belarus and elsewhere, not Zionism.
You mean the Zionists who traded jewish lives with nazis, so they could get settlers to settle palestine? Who created tge havaara agreement so they could trade with nazis. You mean the modern zionists who arrest with no charges so they can bring people to their torture camps? Collective punishment, intentional starvation, killing press, destroying schools and hospitals? The comparisons are countless, while you weakly try to equate hamas with nazis, not surprising from you though.
So, you’re Jewish or Ukrainian?
He appears to be Jewish and Ukrainian.
I somehow knew I’d get that reply after I clicked submit.
Well, at least some Ukrainians take a different view from his. But I hate how nationalism keeps leading to bad things, and Judaism sometimes seems like a nation within a nation, though at other times just like a religion without ethnicity.
If Hitler truly did what people claim, then it would seem his sin would be to treat Europeans like how colonialists treated nonwhites or at least pagans. And that sounds horrible.
"IF"?
Yea, I’d like to see a debate on the topic, but it’s still illegal or de facto illegal. So, I’m just looking forward to when people can debate the topic. Obviously, the Chinese and Indians wouldn’t care were it debated. As different elites rise and fall, we’ll see the topic eventually debated. And then I’ll finally learn what in the happened.
My uncle, who shared no kinship with me (my aunt does), was apparently “98% Jewish.” His family was from Russia. That very much sounds like a distinct ethnicity.
He very much did seem to have a pro-Israel and pro-Jewish foreign policy, but it was almost like he was naive. He was a good person. He wasn’t “scheming” or whatever. It was like he believed in everything. He wasn’t mean to nonJews, wasn’t bad in any way that I ever saw. Both of them mocked Bill Kristol a bit.
It’s tough to hate people when you realise bad things result without intention. It’s like the movie Idiocracy. I’m glad I got to know him though, because it helps me understand that people just misunderstand one another and see things differently.
Ive heard that line before-"my great grandfather was Jewish,"ect.
Um, it’s true. I mention him often, and I just found out he was 98%. They have no kids.
I’m right wing. It’s often seen as negative to have such relations, because nationalists often fear Jews. They both worked for the government.
Anyway, he was very kind to me, and I used to try to debate him.
Jewish-Ukrainian
It’s well that you’re honest.
Thanks!!
?? … appears you need to learn English.
How did you come to that conclusion based on his comment?
They've got a space for your friends in Ukraine.
On winning the coin toss at the start of a pickup football game, he always chooses to Receive.
So, you must be one of the millions in Israel, tuned in to Channel 12, to watch IDF soldiers gang rape a Palestinian, or the picture of a Palestinian father holding up the headless body of his son, or this: AA: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/newborn-twins-killed-in-israeli-strike-in-gaza-as-father-collects-their-birth-certificates/3302896# , as part of the racist, genocidal society that Israel has descended to. The former head of the Mossad has accused Israeli society of becoming this way. Amos Goldberg, professor of Holocaust and all things Holocaust at Hebrew University calls the actions of the IDF in Gaza a genocide. I pity you.
I hate to alarm you, but Israel didn't launch october 7th
Sorry if that spoiled your day………..!!!
War is hell. Gaza made the decision to attack Israel on Oct 7. They also made the decision to kidnapped people and hold them as hostages and human shields. And they made the decision to build their forts under where people live. The people of Gaza have paid a price for their bad decisions. But like so many entitled people these days, it always someone else fault when one's bad decisions come back to bite them.
Now you're calling the residents of Gaza "entitled"? Jesus Christ you are one sick fucker.
Very vey sick.
Completely immoral.
They are victims,absolultely.Of the hatred that drove Jewish people to create Israel.I have seen photos of Palestinian Arabs being driven south along the coastal plains of Israel and into Gaza.I have seen photos of the expulsionof Iraqi Jews and pogroms against the Jews of Yemen.Both are sad. Gazans are now victims of the suicidal war launched by their own government on Oct 7,and the response.
You're quite selective about the photos you view, Sully. None seem to be of current and past suffering of Palestinian people. They ARE people, you know.
Real quick for me, jake – repost this as your Comment :
"The Palestinians are human beings, same as the Israelis, same as me & you."
He can't say that because it hurts his ego…!
READ what I said.
Cute. They're victims but it's their own fault.
People do suffer for their bad governments very simple.
One side is "suffering" because of their bad government. One side is committing a genocide because of their bad government. Very simple.
Spare us your blood soaked "sympathy."
Israel started the war in 1948 when it drove over 750,000 Palestinians from their land. They were barred from returning on pain of death.
Israel's 17 year long blockade of Gaza was and is an act of war.
In the 15 years prior to 10-7-23, Israel killed over 4,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
A Gazan child born in 2000 has already lived through at least six massacres (Operation Summer Rain [2006], Operation Hot Wind [2008], Operation Cast Lead [2008/09], Operation Returning Echo [2012], Operation Pillar of Defense [2012], and Operation Protective Edge [2014]), along with innumerable cross-border shootings, and the suppression of non-violent resistance like the Great March of Return.
Until the 1960s and the first wave of successful anti-colonial independence movements, Zionists were not ashamed to call their project colonialism. Established with the aim of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine, their institutions from 1897 onward included the Jewish Colonization Association, the Society for the Colonization of the Land of Israel, the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, and the Jewish Colonial Trust.
There is a delight to be had when far-Right White people whine about "entitlements" and are the same to rage and fury when their own gov't pension, Medicare, Medicaid, and other entitlements are in any way threatened.
Sully, Bob Vila, and Major Burns can f**k off to home soil at TruthSocial any time they like. The only advantage of having them post here is that I know for certain I'm not the dumbest Commenter in the room.
War is Hell?
Eat sh-t you filthy racist genocide supporter.
"But like so many entitled people these days, it always someone else fault when one's bad decisions come back to bite them."
The genocide in Gaza is Israel's fault.
You are the one blaming someone else, the victims.
You are a foul and blood soaked hypocrite
Right. They just launched the genocide that followed. You're another one that thinks genocide is justifiable. It isn't. Ever.
You:
"It is a genocide"
"I know that"
And you even admit that it was a genocide.
Genocide is horrible and never justifiable
But it didn’t start in a vacuum
Never justifiable BUT it didn't start in a vacuum. Sounds like you're contradicting yourself.
Sorry
10/7 was just one battle in a long war started by Israel.
Israel started that war in 1948 when it drove over 750,000 Palestinians from their land. They were barred from returning on pain of death.
Israel's 17 year long blockade of Gaza was and is an act of war.
In the 15 years prior to 10-7-23, Israel killed over 4,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
A Gazan child born in 2000 has already lived through at least six massacres (Operation Summer Rain [2006], Operation Hot Wind [2008], Operation Cast Lead [2008/09], Operation Returning Echo [2012], Operation Pillar of Defense [2012], and Operation Protective Edge [2014]), along with innumerable cross-border shootings, and the suppression of non-violent resistance like the Great March of Return.
Until the 1960s and the first wave of successful anti-colonial independence movements, Zionists were not ashamed to call their project colonialism. Established with the aim of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine, their institutions from 1897 onward included the Jewish Colonization Association, the Society for the Colonization of the Land of Israel, the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, and the Jewish Colonial Trust.
It is a genocide
I know that
And October 7th was only a convenient excuse to start the genocide in full strength
But I’m Jewish on top of my Ukrainian ness
So, you admit that it's a genocide but since you're Jewish you're good with it? You're as sick as moron Timmy.
No i just dont feel like fighting with my family
Tells us a lot about your family. And you. Grow a pair.
Cognitive dissonance. "2 + 2 = 5, or else there's something terribly wrong with my world-view and morals."
Good thing you revealed that…! We now know you better…!
Yup!
Only in Israel, people are free to criticize.not so inPalestine.
Death to Isreal.
Are their any murderous US 'allies" that you don't support, creep?
Israel shouldnt die
The Arabs have tried to eradicate Israel more than the opposite
Israel must cease to exist in Palestine. – hence “Death to Israel.”
It must be replaced majority rule for all of Palestine, like in South African when apartheid ended.
Israel’s 17 year long blockade of Gaza was and is an act of war.
In the 15 years prior to 10-7-23, Israel killed over 4,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
A Gazan child born in 2000 has already lived through at least six massacres (Operation Summer Rain [2006], Operation Hot Wind [2008], Operation Cast Lead [2008/09], Operation Returning Echo [2012], Operation Pillar of Defense [2012], and Operation Protective Edge [2014]), along with innumerable cross-border shootings, and the suppression of non-violent resistance like the Great March of Return.
My understanding as of last night was that the Hezbollah attack came first and the Israeli response came afterward, with Israel claiming it was "pre-emptive" despite the fact that it was caught flat-footed and reactive.
Has it been proved otherwise?
Don't know. What was proven without the shadow of doubt was the US Media spouting Israeli Propaganda to the letter and with enthusiasm.
It seems there was a so called Preemptive Strike but did nothing to Hezbollah capabilities of retaliation for Shukr…!
https://farsnews.ir/Rahgozar_b/1724665551968412786/Israeli-Regime-State-Of-The-Art-Intelligence-Base-Targeted-in-Hezbollah-Raid
Israel has become the spoiled brat that WE helped to create!
And UN spoiled the Palestinians by giving them free educations, housing and food. Thus allowing them the freedom to build a war machine that was capable of killing a few thousands citizens of Israel. And now the UN is continue to spoil the Palestinians by telling them the losses they are suffering in the war is Israel fault, not the people who started the war.
https://youtu.be/3dFIJgpDynE?si=_yZDaPwp_PXgDOt0
Calling the Palestinians "spoiled" makes you an even bigger moron than I had previously thought. And that is hard to do.
Not that hard. If Einstein waited a bit longer, he might have found that human with the infinite stupidity he was talking about. Albert Einstein — 'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.'
Agree completely. Seems like these Comment sections need a whack-a-doodle fanboi for The Bad Guys on any given topic, and Major Burns doesn't mind a genocide so long as it's against things he doesn't consider human.
I wonder if Knapp has a policy on WADs…!
Weapons of Argumentative Dumba$$ery ?
I think Timothy withdrew from that treaty back when the US left the Iran Nuclear one. Now Major Burns feels free to employ short- and medium-range nonsense that was formerly banned.
The Palestinians need to build a much bigger war machine and kill many more Israel is, particularly IDF.
You're still stumping about the 800 or so civilians killed on 10/7 – many by friendly fire – while defending the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians by Israel in Gaza.
That makes you a genocidal maniac, utterly divorced from any sense of morality.
Death to the IDF!
Death to the whole country
Israel needs to cease to exist in Palestine.
There needs to be one Palestine with majority rule, with a transition along the lines of South Africa’s ending of apartheid.
Iarael was created by the just determination and labor of its people.
… determined to convince the British to give it Palestine in '48 and labouring ceaselessly since to make sure the Americans fund and defend History's Most Successful Apartheid State.
Israel was stolen.
Death to Israel!
Israel was stolen.
Death to Israel!
Uh I thought it was created in 1917 with the Balfour declaration.
The preemptive strike by Israel interference with Hezbollah attack. Good job by the IAF.
This strike also shows the commitment of the USA to defending Israel. There is no doubt the USA help Israel with targeting and of course supplying Israel with the smart bombs used in the attack.
You are on an anti war site, complimenting a preemptive strike. You appear to have a lot of anger issues.
One should respect people who politely disagree with you.If France had launched a pre-emptive strike against Germany in 1938 0r 1939-we would nor have had WW II.If the US had launched a premeptive strike against the Japanese fleet as it approached Pearl Harbor….
Sully, you really don't get it. Only Mikhail's Navy on here, has a more warped view of history than you do.
France would have needed a preemptive strike in 1932; by '38 the Nazi war machine was basically fuelled and ready. Oh, and you'd have France violate their own Treaty of Versailles ? No surprise you have no honour – this and being OK with attacking unarmed and vulnerable civilians.
Those in the US that knew the attack was coming, wanted it to happen. Thankfully Miraculously Luckily all carriers were out of Pearl that Sunday morning.
And "The Final Countdown" (1980) starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen, was NOT a documentary.
As a further, Sully, as much as Right-wing armchair generalissimoes love to trash Neville Chamberlain for "appeasement", NC knew that the Nazi war machine outgunned the British in every regard, and distracted the Nazis in order to buy time for the UK to rapidly prep for what was now inevitable.
If Russia had launched a pre-emptive strike against the US in 2002, there would have been no invasion of Iraq by the US.
The preemptive strike against Japan was done diplomatically and economically by FDR by cutting off oil and metal exports and DEMANDING things that he knew Japan could never accept, thereby getting the war he wanted.
Not that Japan didn't deserve to be defeated after their atrocities in conquered countries, especially China.
This isn’t a matter of disagreement. You just don’t go to a Jewish gathering and compliment the holocaust to their faces.
Don't mistake idiocy for anger.
Death to Israel!
Got that right. This ends when Israel ends. And Israel will end.
GFY Timmy! Your a blood soaked creep.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/08/26/the-western-way-of-war-owning-the-narrative-trumps-reality/
Alastair Crooke
Just finished watching his Youtube clip! Great minds think alike.
Israel is acting alone against Hezbollah
Similar to how Ukraine is acting alone against Russia.
Faith based colonial racist genocide is loud here today.
It usually is, in one form or another.
So now Lebanon is launching "preemptive strikes"!
–CJ
First the missiles/sites, then blow all the tunnels, then chase all the criminal fugitives to beirut and into the loving arms of lebanese authorities. Confiscate all the diaper hats as trophies and call lebanon concluded, then focus on neutering yemen and put the houthis permanently out of business. If you will do a thing then do not do it by half measure. To hell with the UN, get the UN off of US soil and no more funding.
https://x.com/i/status/1827544840474665296 Can anyone confirm?
It seems yes and no, depending on circumstances….
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-10-23/ty-article-magazine/150-000-rockets-and-missiles-the-weapons-israel-would-encounter-in-a-war-with-hezbollah/0000018b-573d-d2b2-addf-777df6210000
I've read several stories that place the number near 150,000.
Under the circumstances, Hezbollah is exercising judicious use in targeting despite the massive stockpile and the possibility for escalation.
Their ultimate strategy may lean toward a forceful evacuation of Israelis from the region. Some would term it a "slow burn."