The White House has discussed the possibility of using military force against Hezbollah if the Lebanese Shia group launches a significant attack on Israel, Axios reported on Tuesday.
The report reads: “The scenario of using US military force if Hezbollah were to join the war has come up in several White House meetings in recent days, the officials said. They added that any decision to use force would be made according to the scope of a Hezbollah attack and Israel’s ability to respond.”
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire across the Lebanon-Israel border, and there have been casualties, but the two sides have yet to engage in all-out fighting. According to The Jerusalem Post, Israel delayed its ground invasion of Gaza over concerns that Hezbollah could open a second front in the north once most Israeli soldiers are committed to the south.
The US has deployed two aircraft carrier strike groups and other military assets to the region and has been warning Hezbollah and Iran not to intervene in the Gaza war. Israeli officials believe that the US would get involved if the war escalated beyond the onslaught of Gaza.
Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi on Tuesday noted the steps taken by Biden. “He is making clear to our enemies that if they even imagine taking part in the offensive against the citizens of Israel, there will be American involvement here,” Hanegbi said. “Israel will not be alone … A US force is here and it is ready.”
Israel: USA, bend over… USA: How far?…
As America should. “Never Again” is more than a slogan, it is about making sure the largest and most horrendous genocide in human history is never again repeated, with this week’s violence and terrorism against the state of Israel further underscoring its importance in the “modern world”. The world has come together to condemn Hamas’s unjustifiable terrorism and support Israel, and we can only wish the brave souls of the Israeli Defense Forces godspeed in their mission.
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Your article acknowledges that these practices became officially illegal in 2005 and are now mostly isolated and discouraged. As such, this is not the indictment of the Israeli Defense Forces you seem to think it is.
“. . . and are now mostly isolated and discouraged. . . .”
Oh, “mostly” and “discouraged” — that’s OK then.
Can you stop with the disingenuous attempts of taking my words out of context. If something is illegal conduct and treated as such by a military, what else exactly are they supposed to do?
Current conduct by the brave state of israel is to bomb indiscriminately. One of your leerless feeders has said that the intent is maximum death and destruction, not accuracy. Hitting hospitals, UN schools, shelters, homes. The Kissinger Protocol: Kill anything that moves. Killing children. CHILDREN!
As in maximum death and destruction for Hamas, and unfortunately not being able to guarantee maximum accuracy of precision strikes for civilians who choose to remain in “Gaza” after Israel gave ample evacuation time and warning, but your definitely not proving my point by taking another quote out of context right?
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Except no. Israeli governmental policy toward “Palestinian Resistance” has taken every possible step toward “reconciliation” and general de-escalation, with Israeli security forces even pulling out of Gaza, granting the region effective self-government, their ostensible goal, yet terrorist attacks and calls for genocide from these organizations did not cease. Israeli Security Forces routinely allow children hoping for “martyrdom” to attack their tanks and personnel, strikes against known terrorists use special forces instead of explosives for fear of civilian casualties, something that results in far more military casualties, yet this muted response wouldn’t qualify as self-defense? If killing were truly the reasons for this conflict, wouldn’t the conflict cease when Hamas became the de-facto government in Gaza and gained controlled of the entire territory of Gaza without an Israeli Security presence? Reports of actual war-crimes that could be committed by the Israeli Defense Force should not be discounted, but they should be put in the context of an organizations that takes every reasonable measure to prevent civilian casualties and has made every attempt to eliminate such incidents from ever happening again.
All one has to do is google Hamas+hate cartoon to see what Hamas is about.all one has to do is see what Jewish populations in the Mid East were before 1947 and now-to see real antisemitism.
You need to get a job as a comedian. You know very well that the reasons things are as they are is because of 75 years of brutal occupation. Why did Hamas (a creation of Israel) attack? Let me have you read what a Israeli lawmaker had to say. https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/08/israeli-lawmaker-says-pogroms-against-palestinians-provoked-hamas-assault/
I saw a politician claiming if he were in charge he would have been handled recent events better (truly, wonderfully original, a politician exploiting a tragedy for personal gain), a warning that he may be worried about violence, and the author of the article making an unsupported claim that Netanyahu’s government’s every move is predicated on secretly annexing the West Bank. Israel supported Hamas when they mistakenly believed they could be a “moderating” force. But if supporting legitimate, justified self-defense against terrorism and acts of genocide would mean you attempt to give me false labels, that does nothing to discourage me from spreading the truth. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a0099c9dbd76e71282e30e42fb4328f4e0a2e89a1cb13b5af4a7ec2701027da2.png
I have returned to this site and others. I notice the same messages, verbatim, which leads me to believe that there is not a person behind the messages.
Thats great. Someone on the internet told me I can’t have thoughts and stances, so I guess it must be true. I guess everything I’ve said and supported is now invalid, so congratulations on your rhetorical victory!
If the US response would be similar to what they did in Afghanistan US would lose…!
Joe has us in a war with Russia. Joe is now inserting us in the ME. Again. Joe has troops in Somalia. Joe is sending troops to Haiti, again. Joe is sabre rattling in China’s face. Joe is not my president.
Would you buy a used president from this country?
Hopefully military recruitment in America will continue to plummet. Who wants to serve a “ great “country that is really subservient to a racist, apartheid and terrorist state
Because of the Hamas pogrom-Biden will now easily be reelected.
Now that you brought up the subject of pogroms, here is a take on the subject by a Israeli lawmaker: https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/08/israeli-lawmaker-says-pogroms-against-palestinians-provoked-hamas-assault/ Right now Biden is not my president, nor will he be next year.
“”Joe is not my president.””
actually sir, Joe is your POTUS and mine as well. we have the luxury of criticizing him and his cronies, which sets us above the rest of the world who are not allowed to bad-mouth their fearless leaders, but he is indeed our POTUS.
now; let’s pretend that we manage to do away with Biden & his ilk via voting, and manage to install another Trump or god forbid another Bush -> WTF would you think would be the advantage of that scenario?
i submit that the US would be worse off domestically with a republican than we are now with the democrat.
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Joe is the president of the United States of America, not of me, you, or anyone else.
hey Knapp, i remember when Biden said “I am a zionist!”
even though he claimed to be a catholic for his entire previous life.
he is the MFin POTUS whether we like it or not. we don’t have a choice in the matter. (show up and vote against him next time)
are you going to show up at a protest and throw rocks at his punk-ass? no sir you would never do that. your even temperament is the reason that you are a moderator here. he is the POTUS of you every bit as much as he is the POTUS of the rest of us.
please don’t pretend to be some kind of rebel.
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“are you going to show up at a protest and throw rocks at his punk-ass? no sir you would never do that”
Well, I’ve never thrown rocks at a president.
I have, however, participated in e.g. seizing control of an intersection to block two presidential candidates’ motorcades, then facing down 500 cops with nothing but a pointy stick and a vinegar-soaked handkerchief in case they tear-gassed me. The Black Bloc people I had fallen in with for that one didn’t blink. The cops and the motorcades did.
But I was a lot younger and skinnier then than I am now. I haven’t made it to a protest during this decade. The last really big one was when Richard Spencer spoke at the University of Florida, and frankly neither the cops nor the Nazis were especially scary.
LOL “skinnier” … really, a pointy stick ?
effin respect sir.
son of b*tch.
i actually fought the law once and the law won.
oops wasn’t i a tuff-guy though, LOL
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but my real name is spy
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god-damnit “Rebel Scum” is what Darth Vader referred to every single person in the far-away galaxy a long time ago who did not agree with his boss’ vision for the corporate future.
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Again US running errands after replenishing it’s master Israeli munitions to continue the genocide. Had US warned Hezbollah after stopping Israeli overkill and made efforts to address the illegal occupation which is the root cause to this perpetual war then Hezbollah should consider, if not then why give a fu** to hollow warnings.
Biden doesn’t want to take a chance on Israeli forces losing another war with Hezbollah. If we don’t agree, a false flag operation might be coming soon. It’s not the first time one of our ships was attacked to start a war–wink, wink. (Sarcasm)
If Biden hits Hezbollah, Iran will enter and adios the bases in Iraq & Syria. And so on …. Biden is just bluster and bluff.
Iran has anti ship missiles and can fire one towards one of the carrier if Hezbollah doesn’t have one…!
US carriers will stay out of range.
Well Iran better fire more than one. The chance of single anti ship missile getting past the Phalanx CIWS is very slim.
right then. Iran would “retaliate” by blowing up some US BS in Iraq ?
maybe that’s why the US has at least 750 military bases all across the world, so that any “retaliation” will be focused on them and not Main Street over here.
The very formation of Israel was a war crime! Israel’s neighbors have had to live with this stark reality for over 70 years! That’s a mountain of crime compared to the Hamas reaction to it!
People move around all the time,nations form,borders change. Thats life.
By force? You have heard of the Holocaust? Well, Palestinians had their Nakbah. And then occupation. Look, Ben-Gurion was not happy with just the removal of Palestinians, what he had in mind was expansion. Taking more and more lands from occupants. Israel, the newest country on the block, had what was necessary. Why more? Why occupy a territory for 75 years? It would be like me not being happy with my house and have eyes on my neighbor’s house. So, I force the owner out of his house at the point of a gun. Then say its mine, but I really like the house across the street too. Nice lawn. Nice driveway that I could park my truck at. So, I march across the street, weapon in hand, toss that owner. I hope you are getting what I am saying.
“The very formation of Israel was a war crime” What war crime was that?
Removing 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. Massacres such as what occurred at Dier Yassin. Women, children murdered.
Perhaps we will soon find out which antiship missiles can kill carriers.
But not as good against submarines.
Are you rooting for that?
If Biden does enter he US in Israel’s war, it will be a disaster for the US and Israel. So far, everything Biden has done has backfired, from Ukraine to the economy. The guy is a first-class fvck-up, and this will not change. He’ll be kissing his re-election goodbye when the first body bag comes home.
We give them our tax dollars, and now we have to fight their wars and spill blood for them also? Biden rushed off to Israel, but he still hasn’t gone to our border. Then the Democrats wonder why people respond to Trump’s “America First” motto.
What country do you live in and which border of it has Biden not been to (he visited the US-Mexico border, with Texas governor Greg Abbott as his tour guide, earlier this year).
Said this was the plan from 2006. Israel and the US neocons want Iran gone. Can’t do it without removing Hezbollah. Israel can’t remove Hezbollah by itself. So Israel has to call the US for direct military assistance. Israel needs a casus belli. Hamas is the tool. The incursion into Al-Aqsa was the means.
Bonus win for the Israelis: They get to ethnically cleanse or preferably genocide the Palestinians.
Q.E.D.
Iran has done a very good job of being a bogeyman.
White House Has Discussed Military Response If Hezbollah Attacks Israel
if hezbollah were to attack Israel, then Israel would have all the excuse they need to “retaliate” into Lebanon and seize the Litani River which they have long coveted.
of course with uncle sam backing them up, that might not be as lofty of a goal as it has been in the past. so really, is it beyond the realms of possibility that Israel would manufacture an attack on themselves by “hezbollah”?
and for that matter, how the F was hamas able to surprise attack Israel to the extent that they allegedly did without at least some enabling on the part of Israel?
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i was surprised to discover this Paul Craig Roberts article which matches my thoughts on all of this almost verbatim =
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hamas-attack-israel-puzzling/5836617
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by the way,
LIHOP = let it happen on purpose
MIHOP = make it happen on purpose
much time was wasted by the so-called “9/11 truthers” trying to decide which of these applied to 9/11.
Maybe White House Has Discussed Military Response but no one from the White House will have to fight.
Will they send your kids to die for Israel or Ukraine or Taiwan?