Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), said Wednesday that the Israeli military was “preparing” for a potential ground offensive in Lebanon.
Halevi told a group of IDF soldiers that their “military boots will enter enemy territory” and said Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon are part of the preparations for a ground invasion.
“You can hear the planes above, we are attacking all day. Both to prepare the area for the possibility of your entry [into Lebanon], and also to continue causing blows to Hezbollah,” Halevi said, according to The Times of Israel.
Israeli airstrikes continued to pound Lebanon on Wednesday, killing at least 72 people and wounding 392, according to Lebanese Health Minister Dr. Firass Abiad. The latest violence brings the total number of people killed by Israel in Lebanon just this week to over 600. Abiad said the “overwhelming majority, if not all,” of the 558 people killed on Monday were civilians.
Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel in response and fired a ballistic missile at Tel Aviv on Wednesday, its deepest attack yet. Israel said it intercepted the missile, which Hezbollah said targeted the headquarters of the Mossad spy agency.
Halevi referenced the ballistic missile attack in his comments about a potential ground invasion of Lebanon. “Hezbollah today expanded its [range] of fire. Later today, it will receive a very strong response,” Halevi said.
“Today we will continue, we do not stop, we continue to attack and continue to strike them everywhere. The goal is a very clear goal, to return the [displaced] residents of the north safely. To do this, we are preparing the [ground] maneuver,” he added.
According to Israeli media reports, the US is in talks with Israel on a potential pause in attacks against Lebanon. Since October 7, 2023, US weapons shipments and other support for Israel have emboldened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to escalate in Lebanon and elsewhere in the region.
Well it didn't go well the first time and now Hezbollah is better trained and better arms. Go Hezbollah
Rooting for a Lebanon terrorists group? Nice. But if you want to do that, just don't cry "genocide" when Israel hits Lebanon.
It is "go Hezbollah" because Israel is committing genocide and doing ever-expanding ethnic cleansing, using the tools of mass terror.
No, it can't have Lebanon, nor the West Bank, nor any parts of Gaza. No, it can't commit mass terror.
Oct 7 was genocide.Hezbollah calls for the destruction of Israel-what do you thing they will do with any survivors?They preach hate against Jewish people everywhere-is that proper?
And you're rooting for a terrorist group that other terrorist groups look at with envy. And once again you try to downplay the actual genocide in Gaza as if all Israel's attacks are just reflexively called genocides. They're not. Gaza is a real genocide and Israel is conducting it.
might as well chant go assad or go ISIS or go al-Qæda or go IRGC or go Osama bin Laden
Assad is no different than any other leader, yours included. The IRGC is a branch of Iran's armed forces. No different than any other country. ISIS is a US tool, as is al-Qaeda. bin Laden was a useful tool before he wasn't.
Many civilians will be killed or rendered homeless,especially in Lebanon. Is that "antiwar"?
Remember – this is a WAR OF CHOICE. The ASI can choose NOT to do this, and seek a lasting peace instead.
And yes, to head off a certain couple ASI Apologists – it is entirely possible.
To quote DS9 :
Quark : It all comes down to the Third Rule of Acquisition. You don't know that one, do you?
Sakonna : I am not well-versed in Ferengi philosophy.
Quark : Remind me to give you a copy of the Rules, you'll never know when they'll come in handy. Now, the Third Rule clearly states, "Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to."
Sakonna : Logical. But I fail to see how that applies to my situation.
Quark : You want to acquire peace. Fine, peace is good. But how much are you willing to pay for it?
Sakonna : Whatever it costs.
Quark : That's the kind of irresponsible spending that causes so many business ventures to fail. You're forgetting the Third Rule! Right now, peace could be bought at a bargain price, and you don't even realize it.
Sakonna : …I find this very confusing.
Quark : [sighs] Then I'll make it so simple that even a Vulcan can understand: the Central Command has been caught red-handed smuggling weapons to their settlers. So every ship that approaches the de-militarized zone will be searched. Without the support of the Central Command, the Cardassian settlers won't be so eager to fight.
Sakonna : You forget the weapons they already have.
Quark : They have weapons, you have weapons, everyone has weapons; but right now, no one has a clear advantage. So the price of peace is at an all-time low. This is the perfect time to sit down and hammer out an agreement. Don't you get it? Attacking the Cardassians now will only escalate the conflict and make peace more expensive in the long run! Now, I ask you: is that logical ?
Sure Israel can choose to allow Hezbollah to fire on Israel on every day. Hezbollah can also choose not to fire on Israel.
Takes only one side to tell the other, “We’re not gonna do this any more, and we’ll keep not-doing it if you also don’t do it.”
What, your warmongering heroes afraid to show the courage to be better ?
Let me know when Hamas issues that statement.
Hamas said it would disband as an armed group if Israel complied with international law and returned to the 1967 borders, as every country and organization in the world says it has to do.
Obviously genocidal settlers, though, just want to steal more land for as long as they are able to keep it up, no matter what anyone says, and that's what Israelis are doing.
Using weapons to resist that is perfectly legitimate. Using weapons to maintain illegal occupation, concentration camps, and settlements is 100% illegitimate, not to mention using them to target civilians and use them as human shields, as all the human rights monitors point out Israel does. As a UN monitor put it recently, Israel has "one of the most criminal armies in the world," which is perfectly obvious to everyone.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/25/hamas-official-says-group-willing-to-disarm-for-two-state-solution/
"Hamas said it would disband as an armed group if Israel complied with international law and returned to the 1967 borders" LOL. No leader in Israel in his or her right mind would trust Hamas to do this. That idea is insane.
Also note that Hamas Oct 7 attack was on Israel side of 1967 border and killed civilians. Check your international law and you will see that that attack is not considered legal resistance to an occupation.
1) "Obviously genocidal settlers, though, just want to steal more land for as long as they are able to keep it up, no matter what anyone says, and that's what Israelis are doing."
2) You're supporting one of the most criminal armies in the world, which is carrying out a genocide and stealing the people's land, and you're arguing, without providing any evidence, that a fine point of international law says that occupied people confined to a concentration camp can only fight back inside the concentration camp?
Thanks for the chuckle, guy 👍. You're all right in my book.
Do you call on the Israelis to return to their legal borders? Or are you an illegal settler and proud? What color ribbon do you wear to support genocidal settlers? 😉
"No leader in Israel in his or her right mind would trust Hamas to do this. That idea is insane."
Meaning Israel will continue killing until their ethnic cleansing is complete. There are no peace overtures that Israel will accept because that would spoil the long-term goal of greater Israel.
Tim its actually true they would disband. You make a big deal of them being Muslim Brotherhood. The MB has been working within the system through social services and political participation for decades. Hamas has no problem arming to fight Israel, but there is no incentive to fight its own people. Every armed liberation movement ended up being the predominant political force after liberation. They would disband and become. apart of state institutions including an army.
As for October 7th, it is cynical and diabolical to play the victim card. Apart from the fact that these "suburban" settlements were armed military camps, did you know that the majority of Gaza's population were kicked out of those very lands? It is so inhumane to keep them locked up in an open air prison for generations.
The world marvels at rockets fired from Gaza not realizing,
A fifth-generation refugee longs for what was once her home.
Akin to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising,
They remind us freedom is more powerful than any “Iron Dome.”
"Tim its actually true they would disband" Only a fool would believe that.
And yes I am aware that in 1948 war Palestinians were kicked out of Israel. They were a significant threat to the survival of the young country.
The Palestinians were kicked off the land they were living on. There was no Israel.
Well,there is an Israel now-deal with it.Many Jews were kicked out of their homes in the Arab landsjust like the Palestinians. Both evictions stink.
There wasn't before 1948 which is what I responded to. And everyone is "dealing" with the terrorist entity that Israel is now.
Israel’s borders were not attacked on 7.Oct.
Occupied Palestinian Territory was. And the International Community gave the Likud until Sept 2025 to evacuate it.
th October 7 genocide was launched against Israelis livingin pre 1967 Israel.Facts.
You really think the IDF massacre of Israelis that day was a “genocide” ?
Whatever you want to call it for propaganda purposes, Israel does not have to tolerate terrorist attacks against its civilian population.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-bombed-lebanon
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154896 ‘Hell is breaking loose in Lebanon,’ Guterres warns Security Council
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/11/1104792 Israel settlement expansion ‘tramples’ on human rights law, experts contend
https://apnews.com/article/israel-settlements-west-bank-un-war-crime-13041a65d126db5d96d234ad214ded15 UN rights office says Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas amount to a ‘war crime’
https://journals.openedition.org/revdh/7613 Israeli Settlements in the West Bank, a War Crime?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10609-016-9300-9 On the Situation in Palestine and the War Crime of Transfer of Civilians into Occupied Territory
https://rest.neptune-prod.its.unimelb.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/a3d751e6-c47d-5021-9638-1b75fa4b7ed2/content ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS AND THE ICC (Please initiate a loading process several times without a dial-in code.)
https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=hDq9DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT8&dq=israel+settlement++war+crime&ots=1DN2YUI1mD&sig=QdcS7Ph0tmeSY8YIwHWhVM9170E#v=onepage&q&f=false Disputed Territories and International Criminal Law: Israeli Settlements and the International Criminal Court
https://lokayat.org.in/books/palestine.pdf Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
https://mirror.anarhija.net/usa.anarchistlibraries.net/mirror/n/nc/noam-chomsky-the-crimes-of-intcom.pdf
Ooh terrorist attacks? You mean to tell me that the genocidal settlers are ALSO name-callers, labeling any resistance as terrorism? That's taking things too far. Would never have thought one of the most criminal armies in the world would stoop that low. Almost makes it understandable why the ICJ requires all nations to sever all economic ties with Israel. It's not because Israelis are genocidal settlers who target women and children and use them as human shields. It's because Israelis are name callers! Now I get it. Thanks, professor.
You argue terribly, inhumanly, absurdly like a one-eyed giant of Greek mythology.
https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Cyclopes/cyclopes.html
https://quran.com/al-baqarah/251
Yeah… Starting to understand who comes to these comment sections to support the genocidal settlers.
And when they do, you'll answer with this:
"No leader in Israel in his or her right mind would trust Hamas to do this. That idea is insane."
You're funny. And not in a humorous way.
"No leader in Israel in his or her right mind would trust Hamas to do this" You find this fact funny? OK.
Hi Tim,
We are all a bit frustrated and truthfully a bit uncertain as to where this is headed.
You should be frustrated where this is all heading.
What I find funny is that you made that statement after you made this statement:
Let me know when Hamas issues that statement.
So, after someone "lets you know" that Hamas has indeed made those types of statements you immediately shift gears to say that they can't be trusted. C'mon Timmy, you're supposed to be the educated one, you couldn't figure that out?
In 2004, Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin announced a shift in policy by stating the group’s willingness to accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel within the pre-1967 boundaries, with a long-term truce to establish mutual intent. Israel responded by assassinating him.
He was assassinate 1 week after the Ashdod Port bombings in which 10 citizens of Israel died. The group he started and lead claimed responsibility for the bombing. He was not killed for what he said, he was killed for what he did.
He was killed for who he was. There was, and is, no chance Israel will accept any peace overture under any circumstance.
The Lebanese were firing on Occupied Territory helping to clear it. This is fully supporting the Internationl Community binding demand that the Likud evacuate occupied territory.
They didn’t ever file on Israeli territory until after the Likud’s Pager Terror Attack.
Possessed by Satan have no choice. They are doing what their master wants them to do.
The Israelis have officially lost their minds, their last war in 2006 ended in a draw and regardless of their tech superiority and US backing, Hezbollah has had many years to prepare for this. Maybe the IDF think they can take their chainsaws to use on some defenseless Lebanese olive trees, like they're doing in Gaza.
A gigantic difference between 2006 and 2024 is technology. Look at how vitally important and amazingly effective drones and precise targeting have been demonstrated to be in Ukraine. Russia can "target" the Ukrainian nuclear power plants without worry of a meltdown or other accidental radiation release because they can drop a missile or drone in the exact center of the substation processing its energy. Ukrainians have been able to drop a grenade into the ventilator stack on a Russian tank from a mile away. The Kursk incursion has failed because the constant drone observation means that any attempt to gather troops for any major movement is immediately detected and shelled, and dozens of videos are appearing as Ukrainians abandon Stryker and Bradley vehicles intact as soon as they know they're targeted.
It's a whole new world, and Israel (and the US) are not at all prepared for it.
Israel not prepared. Interesting. As Israel just knocked out 1700 Hezbollah fighters by blowing up their pagers all at once. And somehow you think that Israel is the one unprepared. OK>
Prone to exaggeration much? Yeesh.
Israel’s Merkava main battle tanks have been getting slaughtered in Gaza, while Ansarallah launched a missile from 2000 kilometers away and hit its target in spite of their 1990s-era Iron Dome and Patriot batteries.
How is pointing out the successful hi tech pager bomb attack an exaggeration? If anyone is exaggerating it is you with your unfounded statement that both Israel and the US in unprepared for a modern war.
"hit its target" Unless the target was the Ben Shemen forest, that missile missed its target. Seems like your exaggerated on this also.
Your claim of “knocked out 1700 Hezbollah fighters” is absurd. The vast majority of the pagers were distributed to the civil servants who make up most of Hezbollah’s membership, the fire fighters, ambulance crews, electrical linemen, and the like, only a few of them were given to the lowest level fighters. Secure phones from a different vendor were given to the majority of the actual gun toting militants.
Show me your source for your claim. And just because a terrorists has a day job does not mean he is not a terrorists at other time.
Whose calling who a terrorist? The IDF are depraved sociopathic killers..Hezbollah are defending AGAINST Zionist terror theft and mass murder. You are a master of satire/propaganda Tim!
The US government classifies Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorists. You have problem with that, take up with the State Department.
Sorry Tim but you are crossing fine lines here and being highly confrontational as is appropriate to your Zionist stance. Be polite.
Same with children. Just because they're children when they're going to pre-school, doesn't mean they aren't terrorists at other times. Same with woman. Breast feeding one minute, terrorists the next. Doctors? same. That's how the IDF, and you, justify killing anything that moves.
Oh my bad. I got the number wrong. "The explosion last week of thousands of Hezbollah’s communication devices put 1,500 fighters out of commission, a Hezbollah official told Reuters on Wednesday"
The irony of Zionist propagandists is their misuse of the word terrorist. Israel is a master of terror, deception, blackmail, and mass murder…No one equals Israel in any of these categories.
and the rus don't abandon their vehicles because we don't have drones either?
We invented this drone warfare in the current war as we know it
not the enemy
*We invented this drone warfare*
Don’t make me laugh. Russia had been using FPV and suicide drones in Syria for several years before the SMO started, my (admittedly faulty) memory is that they originally learned it from the Chechens.
in THIS war
and don’t call it a SMO call it a war
Or at least an invasion
Please?
For a Ukrainian?
Ah, OK. And I assume you’ll claim to have invented use of bullets “in THIS war” as well? You can call it a cherry pie for all I care, it’s a waste of lives and resources by any name.
No we didn’t
Yes the Russians are wasting a lot of lives trying to take over Ukraine.
US and Israel were preparing for a different war. Not only their sheeple but also their leadership was brainwashed into believing that they are far more technologically superior than their opponents. NATO war in Ukraine and Israeli war in Palestine exposed their weakness.
Tanks have been a mainstay of the dominating militaries for over a century, if your military had no tanks then an enemy who had them would beat you. Suddenly that’s no longer the case, every type of main battle tank in use on the planet has recently been defeated by cheap and available weapons and lesser-armored vehicles fare even worse. This has happened in places where they were designed to excel, European plains and dense urban environments, both where they did and did not have air superiority. I’m wondering how long it will take to adapt military tactics everywhere, it took centuries to abandon heavily armored knights on horseback.
Since 2.Oct;
214 Merkavas destroyed
~600 Merkavas disabled/damaged
In Ukraine the Abrams, Challengers and Leopards have almost all been destroyed (the first two turned out to be too heavy for most of the Ukrainian bridges), and the new Russian T-90s have also proven to be vulnerable. One interesting use for the older T-72 and T-54 tanks has been mostly burying them in an embankment as fixed anti-armor weapons, since they’re no longer viable on the front line. The newest Chinese “super-tank” has yet to be put into production, but there’s little reason to think it’s going to be more of a threat than the T-90.
Yet again you parrot Putin propaganda.
The facts are that Ukraine have learnt, adapted and overcome initial losses of
their old Soviet tanks and have upgraded training and effectiveness with their replenished Challenger, Leopard and Abrams tanks.
The latter superior in firepower accuracy, armoured protection and target acquisition tech to the Russian T- 90 tanks.
Wow, so you’re just going to outright lie. We’re done.
You project that like a sulky two year old.
Like a MAGAT you lie continuously, and when your lies are exposed by the presentation of facts, you accuse others of lying and stomp off in a childish rage.
Here are more facts for you to rant at : more than 160 T-90 tanks have been lost, with 100 of these being the newer T-90M models. -Ukraine’s forces, equipped with M2 Bradley vehicles, have successfully neutralized even the most advanced Russian tanks, raising questions about their future viability in combat.2 days ago- nat!onal!nterest . 0rg 09/25/24
And then: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-relying-old-stocks-after-losing-3000-tanks-ukraine-leading-military-2024-02-13/
Nonsense, let’s look at the facts: As of late September 2024, Russia’s tank losses in the ongoing war with Ukraine have been severe, with over 8,800 tanks destroyed since the invasion began in February 2022. These losses are part of broader equipment attrition, including around 17,400 armored fighting vehicles and nearly 19,000 artillery systems. The pace of Russian tank losses has been consistently high, with significant casualties each month. For instance, over 20 tanks were reported destroyed on September 26-27 alone【6†source】【8†source】.Russia has resorted to reactivating old, stored tanks and other military vehicles to maintain its capacity. Over 1,200 tanks from its Cold War-era reserves were brought back into service in 2023. However, this strategy sacrifices quality, as many of these older vehicles are technologically inferior compared to modern standards【7†source】. Despite these replenishments, the losses in both equipment and personnel continue to strain Russia’s military capabilities.
In dense urban environments, tanks always were a weak argument.
Now they protect them quite efficiently against cheap drones but not against more sophisticated missiles.
Please don't forget the nuclear weapons.
https://www.un.org/en/observances/nuclear-weapons-elimination-day
Nearly all the pundits claim Israel would get its ass kicked in a ground invasion?
Pundits w/passports? 🙂 Norman Finklestein has a passport and is always insightful. A worthy hour, or skip to ≈33m. 'Israelis Don't Want to Die"
Yes. He’s not the only one. Will US troops assist?
That's a question for Netanyahu.
Eretz Yisrael vs. The Party of God
If Israel attacks Lebanon on the ground, they need to do it right this time. Israel attack on Gaza was poorly planned.
During an interview on Israeli news on Saturday, Israeli Minister of Education, Yoav Kisch proclaimed that “…there is no difference between Hezbollah and Lebanon…Lebanon will be annihilated.” When pressed by the interviewer on the genocidal implications of this statement, he *softened* his statement to say “Lebanon as we know it will no longer exist.”
Additionally, this week in an X post written in Hebrew, Amichai Chikli, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs declared “Lebanon, even though it has a flag and even though it has political institutions does not meet the definition of a country.” and therefore Israel must “…recalculate a course regarding the border line with the entity that calls itself a state, Lebanon.” https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ee4a7ab6bcd8d4bbba29d2b183b1aa359c12b7e2ad7929b01588fcdeb9b55da1.jpg
Thanks to Satanyahu, all the world can see now the satanistic nature of Zionism.
Spot on!
God told me to do it is the equivalent of my dog ate my homework.
Sometimes dogs are cleverer than their masters.
Mad dogs eat more than your homework, a real puppy would chew some of it and normal dogs know better. Just to protect our lovable pets.
You rock!
Thanks for the chuckle! I needed that and just remember friends, I truly love you all!
It's time to fall into the trap…!
Quran: "They planned, but Allah also planned. And Allah is the best of planners."
Allah was not so good of a planner in Southern Spain in the 15oos.
Tim,
You are almost funny… Not!
How much further is Israel prepared to go, in the region?….
I think Israel is prepared to go as far as they think necessary to protect Israel. They posses nuclear weapons and, we should all remember, they are not part of any nuclear treaties. I'm not defending them, just stating a fact.
the point of all this sadistic israeli aggression is to start a large regional war and suck our dumb empire into it. NOT OUR FIGHT.
They started a long time ago and by now the US is in it with hook, line, and sinker.
Biden finalized it.
Patric. Sadistic aggression is symptomatic of the entire region.
There are no nuclear treaties left, starting with W. Bush the hegemon broke all treaties starting with the ABM treaty, we are back to 00. President Trump finalized it, there is no agreement he respects, he is a weapon sales man, a conman playing power politics.
You can’t put aside your visceral hatred of Donald Trump. If you could, you would realize that all of the presidents since Trueman have been under the influence of arms dealers and the “military industrial complex.” If you think that Trump is the only “conman” in the White House for the last 70 years then I have some shares of a bridge-to-nowhere I’d like to sell you.
They have to have a ground operation for two reasons: 1) air power can't defeat Hezbollah, and 2) they need their own forces to get trashed in order to be sure that the US will come into the war which is the goal of this entire conflict – to get the US to destroy all of Israel's enemies.
Which both Israel and the US will fail at. As I've said many times, the end result of this conflict will be the complete destruction of Israel and the US being driven out of the Middle East permanently.
Don't forget, the hegemon and Israel are nuclear powers and they are ruled by a deranged out of control bunch of people without any adult supervision. Deranged criminal minds where you look.
I'm aware. I'm hoping Russia and China can outmaneuver them.
Israel has been bombing Lebanon for quite some time now.
softening them up for a ground invasion?
maybe Israel will finally achieve the coveted Litani River.
ground invasion? All they know is how to bomb people, the ISRAELIS DON'T REALLY HAVE AN ARMY, they have state licensed killers in uniform. Snipers take care of unarmed civilians, women and children included, they are the enemy.
I hate to agree but… Escalation is where we are all at.
They get closer and closer to attack Iran with US support no matter who wins the election.
Zionism is the root of all conflict being supported by the US.
What might they do next, with our funding?….
This goes beyond regional conflict and heads into potential global conflict.
When is enough for the Zionist monster???…..
"Zionism is the root of all conflict being supported by the US" OK explain how this applies to Ukraine and Taiwan?
Zionism, Ukrainian neo-Nazism and Taiwan separatism enjoy support of the same financial elite.
Even if that is true, so what? That does not validate the statement "Zionism is the root of all conflict being supported by the US"
The financial elite of U.S. is pro-Zionist. American foreign policy is determined by the financial elite. For example, Soros played the major role in promoting neo-Nazism in Ukraine. American politician Nuland, who belongs to the same ethnos as Soros, played major role in organizing the neo-Nazi coup in Kiev in 2014. Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoisky brought Zelensky to the politics. They both also belong to the same ethnos as Nuland, Blinken, Kissinger and many others who determined American foreign policy.
Taiwan will be used as a proxy like Ukraine, their elite is as materialistic and has a price tag as they all have. So-called Democracies are no exceptions. It is called Capitalism.
Again, even if that is true, so what? That does not validate the statement "Zionism is the root of all conflict being supported by the US"
Capitalism.
The US was conflict-prone before Zionism became a major domestic political influence, and if Zionism magically disappeared tomorrow but the US remained in existence, the US would remain conflict-prone. Don’t mistake excuses for root causes.
Materialism and megalomania is the root cause uniting both of them.
You stick a needle into the side of a bull long enough and that bull will eventually fight back! Israel is the one with the needle! It wants war because it allows it to steal the land they "conquer". Nutty Yahoo and his warmongering buddies could care less about Israelis and even less about the civilians in nations neighboring it!
WWIII is on our doorstep.
The Israelis, not BNet, told Hezbollah to watch what happened to Hamas because if they kept attacking Israel it would also happen to them. Don't poke the bear with a stick.
Hamas does not have the rockets Hezbollah has. Also, several times in the past the IDF tangled with the Hezbollah ground forces. It was not pretty.
Speaking of poking. You, apparently sitting somewhere in Israel, have not learned through your "education" that Israel has occupied Gaza since 1948, intentially withholding medicine, potable water, food, restricting travel by putting up checkpoints between the villages, which is against the Geneva Convention as to the responsibility of an occupying force having to provide the necessities of life for the occupied.
If you do know, then I say shame on you.
"Israel has occupied Gaza since 1948," They have? Check your history. Gaza was controlled by Egypt from 1948 to 1967. And Egypt did not treat the Palestinians any better. After the two wars of 67 and 73 Egypt did not want Gaza back. They were happy to turn the problem over to Israel.
Even if Egypt did, that is no excuse for the Israelis, Palestine was a British mandate, the land was and still is Palestine, the state of Israel was illegal from the start. The British and Americans had no right to give land away that did not belong to them. And from the start, the Israelis wanted all of it, what about the settlements funded with US money and don't forget the Irgun, the Zionist terrorists who terrorized the Levant and Palestine since the
" The Balfour Declaration, issued on November 2, 1917, was a statement of British support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people"
But your bias will prevent you to open your mind.
Israel massively bombing Lebanon as we all post…
Do you blame Israel? Lebanon has been firing at Israel almost daily since Oct 8. What did you expect was going to happen?
What sign are you Tim?… You seem a bit aggressive.
He is off the chart already.
You of all people should not ask such a stupid question because you never asked the same in regards to the Palestinian people. You simply ignored almost a century of Israeli brutality committed against the Palestinians. Did you ever condemn the unbelievable Israeli brutality?
Touché ole!
Pro-Palestinian groups may lose tax exempt status because of their exercise of free speech. Our government, controlled by Israel, accuses them of supporting terrorists (Hamas, you know) that are fighting the terrorist state of Israel, the country that has killed untold thousands, maimed babies, killed babies (710 have been named) of Palestinian descent. The propaganda by Israel and the U.S. media is in overdrive as cover for the genocide being conducted by Israel in Gaza, and the coming genocide in the West Bank and Lebanon.
Actually, by blocking journalists from reporting honestly and free speech, the Americans/Israelis confirm they are losing.
They lost all credibility with normal and informed people. Politicians in Western democracies have lost all honor, there may be some exceptions, but on the whole the majority are war criminals. The ruling elite is drowning in blood, Biden and his crew are despicable people and so are the majority of elected officials, regardless of party.
I am a person of peace and always have been. I am a Pisces. The ultimate peace sign. I divorced my husband because he is a Scorpio.
Meaning, astrology is fairly accurate.
Wow, I thought Pisces and Scorpio get along…! Did you divorce your husband recently…?!
My husband, my mother in law and my mother were all scorpios. Not a level playing filed for peaceful but rebellious Pisces! Split from all but my mom and that is that. 😉
Who left who?
I split from all but my mom. It was one of the best days of my life!
:-}
Years ago!
😉
My current partner is a Leo fella and we work well together.
Well, at minimum, Water can put out a small Fire…!
Come on IDF…! They're waiting for your ground assault…! What're you waiting for…?! Do you need US soldiers at the fronts…?!
"Come on IDF…! They're waiting for your ground assault." A similar chant by Hamas nearly a year ago. How did that work out for the citizens of Gaza?
Your Zionist colors are showing loud and clear Tim.
The Israelis will win, right? What will they win other than rubble, the ruins and world wide enemies they made. Why are so many Israelis leaving Israel?
Are you proud of the Israeli madness, sex maniacs in the IDF and the insanely sadistic prison guards torturing Palestinians?
The shame of the American nation in bed with Israeli monsters.
The bravado of Zionist puppets is like a slow car accident. Israel will die by the sword. It will never been seen as the country it was on October 6th, even though most of Us have known it to be a state of mass murdering sociopaths.
Israel is living a lie.
There are no masks to hide behind anymore. The Holocaust has been deindustrialized. The idea of Zionism has been deconstructed and found to be in opposition to and incompatible with human progress and the onward march of moral evolution. Israel has no future, it belongs to the past, a past that is forever to be a source of shame and regret.
And Israeli General has said that Hamas has not been defeated. Genocide committed, with no victory. Is victory the killing of innocents? Of 710 babies (the names of all 710 revealed the other day)?
Of course they need NATO soldiers, the IDF only knows how to drop bombs and use snipers to kill unarmed babies, the real enemy of the IDF scum bags.
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Many in Israeli society refer Palestinian babies as being "snakes".
Israeli society has been contaminated by their own violence. It is hard to believe how a civilized nation can sink so low. They don’t have the excuse to claim they did not know.
The nation will have to pay a high price for all the trauma IDF young men and women will have to deal with, they can’t avoid to know what they did.
In other news, Israel is tracking a huge number of militias waiting for the IDF ground forces. If only Russia had passed to Iran S-400 missiles that could be passed on to Hezbollah, things would be pretty dire for the IDF and Northern Israel. If we join in, body bags would be sent home. With American young men and women in uniform in them. What it the Taliban sends in some squads? Other militias? Would a wounded Israel fire off some nuke laden rockets or delivered by jets (American made F-16).
We have a mental facility not far where we live. It is called Patton State Hospital. Many in the Israeli administration, and, the Americal administration should be re-assigned there. In strait jackets.
I will admit, Israel has some brawn…
But not big on brains. Too much ego!…
Israel is attacking a US ally.
U.S. Relations With Lebanon
Bilateral Relations Fact Sheet
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
April 27, 2022
The United States seeks to help Lebanon preserve its independence, sovereignty, national unity, stability, and territorial integrity. . . .
Since 2006, the United States has provided more than $5.5 billion in total foreign assistance to Lebanon.
Specifically, the United States has provided more than $3 billion in assistance since 2006 to address both economic support and security needs. This assistance aims to strengthen strategic partners such as Lebanon’s security forces; ensure key services reach the Lebanese people; preserve the multi-sectarian character of Lebanon; and counter Hizballah’s narrative and influence. Support for Lebanon’s security agencies and other strategic partners remains at the core of our efforts to preserve stability while countering and delegitimizing Hizballah’s false narrative and justification for retaining its arms in Lebanon and in the region.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-lebanon/
The policies of an irrational hegemon, and the regime's aim for war with China.
What more can one expect from a Blinken state department?
On this page we all keep repeating the same political criminal issues over and over again. The IDF SCUM are really mentally sick people. All they know about military action is to bomb and kill, than they have snipers in the IDF who kill by shooting anything that moves including infants, they shoot to disable young peaceful demonstrators. The Israelis have become a nation of soulless human killing machines and the same is true of the American ruling elite.
Where are the Hamas resistance fighters anyway? They are nowhere to be seen, not below ground or above ground.
Spot on Lysis,
I feel as useful as a refrigerator in the snow…
The same here, but posting here is the best we can do as citizens to voice our opposition to the ruling regime, people without honor.
I will not vote for war criminals, people without honor in Nov. That covers both parties. Maybe a write in is a possibility, but no official candidate gets my vote.
From the year 2000 until 7Oct, the IDF had killed 2300 Palestinian children. Hamas is still around We do not have access to the numbers of times Hamas has attacked forward positions of the IDF. Guerilla warfare kicked us out of Vietnam and Afghanistan. Hezbollah rockets are hitting inside of Israel with more frequency. Israeli economy is in a free fall.
"Where are the Hamas resistance fighters anyway" A lot (17,000) are dead.
How would you know that? You do know the Israelis are liars, they make up the story as needed. If that is as you say, why is the genocide in slow motion gear? There is no Palestinian army to stop it, what is really going on in Gaza? Open the gates and let independent journalists report. What is the problem?