Visiting troops near the northern border, head of Israel’s military, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, discussed the potential of war in Lebanon, saying the likelihood of a conflict in the coming months is “much higher” than it has been.
Lt. Gen Halevi said he believes Israel will be starting the war with more advantages than in the past, and that lessons learned in Gaza will be applied to the situation in Lebanon. Tens of thousands of troops are reportedly being readied for the new offensive.
The comments echo those of Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, the head of northern forces, who said earlier this week that he believes the troops are “ready” for the war in Lebanon, and could start “tonight, if necessary.”
Maj. Gen. Gordin’s comments came after an artillery and air strike attack on Wadi Saluki, a small village in southern Lebanon. He too was predicting tens of thousands of troops would be involved in this war.
Lt. Gen. Halevi was explicit about the goal, saying it is “very clear” that the military needs to allow Israeli citizens to return to their homes in the north, and this would be accomplished through a new conflict with Hezbollah.
Hezbollah has been attacking northern Israeli villages in tit-for-tat strikes for months now, and badly damaged an Israeli airbase in the process. They fired rockets into Israel after the Wadi Saluki strike, though reports denied there were any casualties, and most of the Israeli villages in the area were evacuated long ago.
Israel has estimated some 80,000 citizens have been displaced by the fighting in the north. They may hope to resolve this with a war, but if anything, the near-term points to Hezbollah retaliation likely widening the zone of displacement and forcing even more to flee deeper into central Israel.
The US warned Israel it would struggle fighting a second war at the same time as Gaza. Although some Israeli officials have downplayed this and argued the war in Gaza is coming to a close, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said it may well extend beyond this year into 2025.
Endless hubris … Nemesis is preparing a very nasty surprise for these people … US needs to stay as far away from this looming disaster as possible.
“Nemesis is…”
Still irritated they killed off Data in that TNG movie.
I fear Nemesis has been coming for the US too, and for a long time now.
We have so far to fall, and are so oblivious to the risks.
If we choose the wrong way at every fork in the road, we are our own Nemesis. No Nemesis needed, but I’m sure many will volunteer since we used that metaphorical fork to stab them in the eye, sometimes in both eyes and many times.
The US will be in the middle as usual causing troubles and disaster.
“. . . lessons learned in Gaza will be applied to the situation in Lebanon.”
This madness needs to be halted by “the international community” in the same way the Nazis should have been stopped when they invaded Poland in September of 1939 — by any means necessary. After 100 days, there’s no question that even the use of military force would be justified, under international law and in conformity with most relevant moral codes.
I have been a peace activist since the Vietnam war era and now look forward to the world uniting militarily to deal with Israel and its supporters.
Capitalism is weak. Cut back purchases. BDS the west plus Japan and South Korea. Pay down credit cards. Spring is coming; plant a garden or plan a community garden on public transportation routes. Even if you only raise 10% of your food you will be healthier and cut into corporatists involved in freight, plastic, malls, manufacturing, farming and more. Cut back. BDS the west.
War is bad,Vietnam was Vietnam,Israel -Palestine is a different horse.Vietnam posed no threat to the US.
But what about Teh Communsms !??!
If the USA didn’t fight communism there, it might spread to South Vietnam then Laos then…nowhere else on Earth that wasn’t already communist.
The world is not simple.Communist China invaded their former Vietnamese allies.Enslaved Eastern Europe overthrew their communist USSR masters.The USSR broke up. Heroin routes from SE Asia to the US.White gold were more important than tin and rubber.
Domino theory was up-front in the news.
Yes,it was BS-communism decayed from within,helped by Raygun outspending them.BDS BLM, the concept of white entitlement-all BS. The end of minority rule inS.Africa as not helped its people.
Way to go GC
“…in the same way the Nazis should have been stopped when they invaded Poland in September of 1939 — by any means necessary.”
I think we have the same-exact situation now as existed in 1939. In both cases, a wounded power (Germany, the Apartheid State of Israel) has been building a war machine (with help from the USA) while the nearby states (Britain, France, Poland / Palestine, Syria, Lebanon) saw danger coming given actions dating back 30-40 years. And as in ’39, no neighbouring countries had a military to rival the rising threat (tho Britain’s incorrectly-maligned Chamberlain DID buy the UK time to prepare).
Question then becomes, will PM Netanyahu repeat history and a) open a 2nd front in Lebanon, weakening his military’s focus, and/or b) eventually or possibly inevitably trash the ASI’s postmodern Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Egypt and annex the Sinai (“our most mythological cultural figure wandered there 40 years, it’s our land”) and the Suez ?
Strong points. I don’t know if we have exactly the same situation, but it’s definitely analogous.
In fairness I guess, no situations are ever EXACT, but some draw quote odd parallels
Sinai is worthless,save for a strategic buffer,Egypt has a huge army,Egypt poses minimal threat.
But just think ! PM Netanyahu X-terminates all the Caananites i mean Palestinians, restores Israel v.1.0, takes the fight to Israel’s O.G. mortal enemy Egypt and defeats the Pharaoh’s descendants, builds the Third Temple, does the thing with the red heifer to defeat Diablo or unlock a Stargate or something, Jesus returns, everyone in Israel converts to Christianity, and every Evangelical in America wins the World Series Superbowl forever.
It’s just that easy !
Pointless rambling.
Arabs are human beings with feeling and hopes,but most came from Saudi Arabia,or are descended from Christian Crusaders. Many original Israelites may have had Caananite roots.
The “Israelites” WERE Caananites. Something the bible totally ignores but biblical scholars and archaeologists recognize.
Big difference.Germany planned to conquer a war avoidant Europe.UK and France had suffered horribly in WW I. Despite what a few loonies might have said,most Israelis are casualty adverse and want peace.They just know it is not possible. Chamberlain did not advocate the necessary rearmament.
And what nation is going to attack Israel? What nation will put millions of their citizens lives on the line?
Possibly none. I said that the madness, the genocide, needs to be halted by any means necessary. I think that’s obviously true.
If Hamas or Hezbollah truly pose an existential threat to Israel, then why isn’t Bunny-Ears Nutty-Yahoo’s kid Yair on the front lines with the IDF?
How do you spell Netanyahu? C-H-I-C-K-E-N-H-A-W-K
Yair’s probably in the IDF Air National Guard, flying F-102’s and T-33’s in order to stay out of Vietnam i mean Gaza.
The glory days of George W. Bush, defender of the U.S. of A. from all threats over Texas, well enough that he was able to go AWOL to campaign for someone. I get your point. The men making the decisions, the killing decisions, are carefully ensconced in a warm, safe “war room”, having a ball ordering murder.
Exactly.
The occasional essay promoting a return to military draft and/or compulsory service comes at it from the angle of “skin in the game” – that if eligible adults felt they could be sent to war (or by proxy, their parents as voters or politicians themselves) they’d vote antiwar in their own self-interest.
However, this still creates an indentured pool of soldiers and I oppose the thesis even if it had a chance of working as posited.
Bibi’s little boy is enjoying warm and sunny Miami beach while Palestinians get blown up or slowly starve to death. How nice for him.
Actually, last I heard he’s in some kind of an “ambulance service,” so he’s no longer in Miami. Still spells C-H-I-C-K-E-N-H-A-W-K, but we need to be accurate or we allow the NuttyYahoo trolls a chance for a rejoinder.
ETA: Hmmm, now I could understand some fear that if Yair were taken hostage by Hamas that could pose a conflict for BunnyEars, but that really shouldn’t be a major problem. I’m sure someone among Yair’s fellow IDFers would be more than happy to execute (literally) the Hannibal Protocol on Yair.
Thank you for clearing that up. I guess he is safer, since the IDF likes to target Palestinian ambulances and hospitals.
You must be speaking of Hamas leadership living in Qatar.
The world will eventually unite to confront Israel and anyone who supports it. Do not vote for any federal candidate who supports genocide. Leave the choice blank unless there if your only choice is a death eating ghoul like the junior senator from California chosen by California Governor Nuisance.
So, sadly, you are saying “don’t vote”…
Well, a “spoiled” ballot is still a vote, just not the on-the-nose “None of the Above” I believe Australian voters have as an option on their ballots ?
Jill Stein will be on the ballot. So it’s either vote Green Party, or go Leninist and heighten the contradictions with Trump.
In Canada, some ridings had both a Communist Party candidate and a Marxist-Leninist Party candidate.
I would love to find the Comment section / Reddit threads where they fought THAT gap out.
What gap? Both have long since critiqued and abandoned their historical mistakes. And all agree it’s either Communism or one of another form of Capitalist annihilation.
“What gap?”
The one that ALWAYS exists in subcultures. Which is the One True Version ? Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, Engels himself ? Book version of Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, or movie ? Best / only Batman ? Hells, if you want a DEEP dive, which is the One True Version of Robotech ? That’s a multisided fight if I ever saw one…
Harry Potter gets it straight!
Death Eaters are the problrm.
Jill Stein is the Green Party.
I voted for her in 2020. She is a Jew, and she calls Israel’s actions genocide: https://www.jns.org/as-a-jew-green-party-candidate-jill-stein-accuses-israel-of-genocide/ I wish she had the resources to really compete.
My point is the same as Uncle Sapien except that, since the US doesn’t None-of-the-Above, we the people have to compute the difference between total ballots counted and totals cast for establishment candidates.
When we the people cast more ballots that the combined Ds and Rs receive, we will know it’s time to make a new government.
I’m not sure our “leaders” care if the people are not voting , only that the people are not voting for the other party.
Democrats and Republicans are partners in Presidential Debates, inc. They are also partners in crime in the halls of congress.
All of them, even the “progressive” like two faced Sanders. I used to admire him. Then he became a politician.
I used to respect him,though I disagreed. When he said that food lines in Nicaragua are good in that the poor get something,he did not realize that the elite with armed goons jumped to the front of the line and cleaned out the food pantries.
“…in Nicaragua..?”
THE freshest bananas from those lines tho. Tree-ripened, not shipped green and ‘cooked’ in ethane like supermarkets here.
How does one cook in ethane? Ethane boils at -128 F. Unless one is in the Vostok weather station in Antarctica during its coldest day ever, ethane is a gas.
It is used to speed ripen green bananas.
I use “cook” in a very colloquial sense, as “bathe” didn’t seem entirely accurate either.
Young Victor Pittman’s Reply is what I meant
Only people there don’t get to eat them,and you cant live on bananas. If Gazans starves its is bad,if Nicaraguans starve,is it funny?
Ntcaraguans are very healthy people with beautiful brown skin. They have made great strides in food independence partly caused by neocolonial US meddling that backfired.
I dunno – the National Banana Foundation of America’s website says the average human can live just under 6.6 years on bananas alone. And they’re not a biased source !
They care enough to allow the country to be flooded with illegals so that the Democrats may secure their votes in perpetuity.
What you so racist minded call those whi feed you are driven north by US policy designed to provide cheap labor for corporatists. Mindless brainwashed people call them illegals to help keep their wages low,
Counting the votes is not as important as counting their money.
Tho, I should mention at this point, being in Canada, I/we are QUITE familiar with federal parties forming government after receiving well under 50% of the popular vote. Our last fed election saw the Liberals form a minority government (settle down MAGA crowd, it was not an ETHNIC-minority gov’t) with 32.6% of the popular vote.
So in your case, even when the “spoiled” ballots exceed the “clean” ballots (fresh ballots ? What’s the opposite in this context ?) you can expect the R or D or electoral college…deans ?….to discard those and claim the remainder as “a mandate to govern !!”
The point is for the people to realize representative democracies the world over are fake… Especially Canada. Once we face facts then we north Americans, including Mexico, can start design something modern.
What kind economy prospers using less and less per person as the total population slowly declines in number? this is not an easy problem. The Chinese thought about it and are now attempting to convince their population to grow numerically. The younger Chinese aren’t going for it.
“…start design something modern…”
Single Transferrable Vote.
Fixed term limits.
Campaign spending caps and no donors, corporate or private. Public (taxpayer) funds allotted to each candidate equally at the cap amount. Losing candidates pay it back like a mortgage or student loan; winning ones have repayment garnished from their political salaries.
A “None of the Above” option on ballots which, if it “wins”, redoes the election with all new candidates and the ones rejected on the ballot are banned from seeking political office for 5-10 years.
Recall laws in place for all politicians at all levels.
Yep. All worthy of a national discussion, We need to keep in mind that elections cost the average voter about the same as a cup of coffee.
It’s the billionaires that pay millions to buy elections. Sorta like Russia sending $57 off the shelf drones decoys along with their missiles beong met by 2,5 million dollah a pop iron dome.
“When we the people cast more ballots that the combined Ds and Rs receive, we will know it’s time to make a new government.” And that will happen when?
Hopefully before corporatism implodes.
i predict that every single republican will vote for Trump.
many democrats will vote for a 3rd party guy ensuring a win for Trump.
I’d rather have Claire Daley but Trump won’t bother me a bit.
I dunno – even if Trump carries the O-fficial GOP Reluctant Stamp of Approval, I’d think a double-digit percentage of Classic Republicans would either not-vote or find the Whitest Non-Trump 3rd party option available (if they felt compelled to vote AGAINST Biden and not FOR someone they like).
I mean, it’s a long road to the RNC and nothing stops the RNC from turning Donald into the Right’s Bernie Sanders (that is to say, cheating him out of a chance at the nomination). D-list-Santis might find himself in top spot come summer.
That is very possible. And Trump will give Israel a free pass. If they want to annexed more land he will the recognize it. See East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
The world will not unite to confront Israel. Did that happen after the Cast Lead “operation” by Israel, or after the Protective Edge “operation”???? Nothing is going to happen. Nothing.
Hamas, Houthies and Hezbollah create a nightmare while Russia and Iran develop their power.
Yes,Russia,China, North Korea are moral states.Europe now realizes that its young restive Islamic populations pose a threat.The beast in the East can be justly nuked,
When I grew up in Michigan, the response to two bad choices was “throw the bums out” and then keep throwing them out, whoever was elected last time, until finally someone is forced to offer a better choice. It is a long term design.
We became much more stupider since then.
Eventually, our great ally will bite off more than they can chew and I sincerely hope they choke on it.
Not if Biden, or whoever is the president elect in 2024. The halls of congress and the presidency are in fear of that illegal country. So the $3.8 billion will continue to be sent, weapons will continue to be sent, the U.S. Air Force will continue to direct fire, the sh*t storm will grow. As long as we support the ability of Israel to “defend itself” (against women and children) things will continue. Into 2025 and beyond.
Hamas are all male and sexist.
And a very small minority in relation to how many women and children Israel has butchered and/or starved to death.
Saying that, is racist.
“lessons learned in Gaza will be applied to the situation in Lebanon” Israel is marketing “battle tested” ware to quite a few nations. The main “lesson” is the 2,000 pound bombs we are providing are great weapons to turn streets into rubble, kill men, women and especially children (if not kill the children, then maim them).
Fuel air explosives will be most useful.
Israel cannot win a war of attrition,particularly in mountains against well trained fanatics. The biggest danger to Israel is that immigration will dry up,emigration will pick up.
I don’t think that Israel will try that.
Perhaps a massive naval landing North of Hezbollah postitions to cut them off-very very risky.When cancer of the pancreas strikes-there is no good answer.
Just stop the US arms shipments to Israel and see how fast those butchers stop bragging about their ethnic cleansing.
Oh-you mean the ethnic cleansing thatHamas performed at tiny Israel villages,or plans to do with from the river to the sea.
Man, you really are a fucking clown. It’s not like you don’t know what the numbers are but you say this stupid shit anyway. Need numbers? 1.200 dead compared to 24,000 (low ball) dead just for starters. Should I go on? 60,000 injured/wounded. 400,000 in famine. 90% of the population displaced. But sure, just say “never again” and those numbers aren’t real.
Sully’s the Grand Champion of “Special Pleading”. Mass murder is not OK in his books UNLESS it’s done by his Chosen Group, THEN it’s not mass murder – it’s “legal and legitimate self-defense full stop period end of story.”
I just got the “Sully” reference. Good one. Again.
Really, there are a few different interpretations, and all fit.
You could go with Jake ‘Sully’ Sullivan, obviously. OR, noticing how jake’s screeds fail to take off and end up all wet, you could also choose That Nice Airline Pilot Who Landed In The River In New York (that Sully). OR the henchman from 1985’s “Commando” played by David Patrick Kelly :
John Matrix: Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
Sully: That’s right, Matrix! You did!
John Matrix: I lied.
[Matrix releases Sully, who falls to his demise]
Cindy: What did you do with Sully?
John Matrix: I let him go.
I went with Jake Sullivan. He sounds so much like him. I did think of that airline pilot but couldn’t figure out the connection.
That’s the majority of my intent. The others “just work” (to quote Todd Howard).
These Jewish extremists in Israel are depending on US/UK military participation if they open a second front in Lebanon. That means American and British kids may die to protect genocidal maniacs in Israel. Thanks but No Thanks Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi.
Israeli Military Chief Says Israel’s Capitulation Likely in Coming Months