The German newspaper Bild reported on Monday that Israel is planning to invade Lebanon in the second half of July as Israeli forces and Hezbollah continue to trade fire across the border.
The report, which cited diplomatic sources, said Israel would launch the assault unless Hezbollah stopped firing on northern Israel. But Israeli officials have made clear that’s not enough for them as they are demanding Hezbollah withdraw from the border to areas beyond the Litani River.
The Litani River is about 18 miles north of the Israel-Lebanon border, and Israel has said a Hezbollah withdrawal from the area is necessary for Israelis who have evacuated from northern Israel to return to their homes.
Hezbollah’s position is that it won’t stop firing on northern Israel unless there is a ceasefire in Gaza, while Israeli officials have threatened to escalate in Lebanon if they reach a truce with Hamas.
The US claims it’s working hard to prevent an escalation in Lebanon but has conveyed it would support Israel in the event of an invasion. The US deployed an amphibious assault ship to the region last week to show support for Israel in the stand-off and prepare for potential evacuations of Americans from Lebanon.
Israeli media has reported that the Israeli military likely couldn’t handle opening a second front in Lebanon while maintaining military operations in Gaza, which suggests Israel could be looking for strong support from the US for the war in the north.
Iran needs water and oil investment. It’s going to spend on this conflict instead.
Iran probably needs small nuclear plants, needs many things. Like the rest in the region, Iran has too many people. I guess Ukraine no longer has too many people.
Lebanon needs investment. Syria, Yemen, Libya, everyone needs investment. Iraq, Pakistan, they all need investment. Afghanistan is overcrowded.
Still dreaming of mass genocide ?
What?
Um, which side am I for and which against? Or am I just against everyone?
Not sure I get what you are saying…
It’s sad that war breaks out. The entire region is poor. War destroys, and it saps money from productive investments.
And the young are going to move to the Americas and to Europe, anywhere for a future. Syrians have even moved to the remotest parts of frozen Canada.
I’m not an “antistatist,” but I question somewhat the long term purpose of the various states involved. If Iran lacks water due to Turkey, and the same is true in many of the other states I mentioned, it’s going to be a problem eventually.
Sure peace and prosperity is a pretty old notion.
I just realise how significant the choices are in these states. They need to buy the latest drones, but they also need to provide opportunities for young workers. I guess housing is cheap. The future is dire if the water supply isn’t relieved.
I just slowly learn about these societies as events take place.
War is a waste,not only of lives,but economics wise.
Exactly.
None of them are "overcrowded", all have population densities less than much of Europe.
Carrying capacity is often limited by drinking water. How will things look in Pakistan and Iran in 50 years?
Pakistan has major rivers & extensive agriculture, especially in the Punjab region. There's definitely no shortage of drinking water they're. All countries need investment in reservoirs & irrigation to mitigate against changing rainfall patterns & serve urban growth over the next 50 years.
Supposedly, it has difficulty with clean drinking water. I guess they don’t treat sewage and otherwise have too much pollution.
Did they say which year?
Always tempting the fates, Israel/USA?!
Keep pushing this, in the wrong direction, and you may well get your backsides kicked, royally!
Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.
Zionism is an ideology which posits that it is acceptable for a population, call it X, which lives scattered in many countries, and which might want to create a new country to assemble its scattered population in one plce, to be able to do so by displacing an existing population. Nothing wrong. The land can be bought by the oligarchs of population X and thereby make all the non-landowners squatters on the land to which they were born. Nothing wrong here. Of course this needs the support of a strong "Great Power" to back up the plan and remove any remaining natives, should they not want to leave voluntarily. And if the Great Powers cannot remove them, no porlbem, starvation works too as well as violence and destruction. And if there is not enough water for the population X, no problem, fetch what it needs next door. This is what normal countries have always done and population X wants to create a normal country. Nothing to see here.
Zionism was forced upon that population as a survival tool,as assimilation failed.
Even if true, that's not the Palestinians fault; yet Israel makes them pay again & again.
To Hell with Israel!
End all US aid to Isreal!
Joe Stalin and Mao-really great guys.
And your point is by bringing two very dead people into the mic.
My point is the total lack of value in the leftistposition.
ARF BARK
Heel boy!
You are delusional. The Zionists never intended to assimilate. The Zionist project was a project of conquest, occupation , domination and ethnic annihilation.
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The Dreyfus affair and the Pogroms of Russia showed that they would not be allowed to assimilate. German Jews who had received war medals from Germany in WW2 were still killed by the Nazis.Meanwhile Israel has millions of full citizens who are of Arabs.
No one believes this narrative anymore – not even you.
When you choose to segregate yourself assimilation is always going to fail.
No one chooses to be placed in ghettoes-it is imposed.
The US claims it’s working hard to prevent an escalation in Lebanon but has conveyed it would support Israel in the event of an invasion.
And given Israel's actions since Oct 7th, I'm sure the US is well aware that Israel will do anything if they think the US won't stop them. So, the idea that the US is working hard to prevent an escalation is the biggest croc of shit since Biden's "red lines" or him and Netanyahu not seeing eye to eye.
The US will be involved.
And their bases would be attacked…!
All your base are belong to us!
Uncle Sam is, always has been, and always will be, a liar.
To Hell with Joe Biden.
Israel always prefers if someone else does the spending and fighting for them if possible. Who's protecting the Israeli shipping in the Red Sea? Not the Israelis.
Protection of the open seas from pirates is everybody's business.
Except for Israel’s, of course.
… And Hezbollah already stopping them in the first half of July…!
Just like planning a vacation in advance. /s
Not really sarcasm.
To Israel, invading land that's not theirs, while murdering women and children for Yahweh is in fact a vacation.
I'm reminded of a passage in "The Source", wherein Yahweh recounts to his children how cool he was for kicking Egyptian ass by flooding the Red Sea.
Really cool Old Testament stuff! No wonder Israelis get off on slaughtering "other" people.
The dropped balloons act was….something.
Ah, Israel: "There's no place like someone else's home"
Thanks for today's laugh.
""The Litani River is about 18 miles north of the Israel-Lebanon border""
that is Israel's motive
Didn't they do this once before, with less than stellar result?
That may prevent infiltration from tunnels,but it will not stop missile attacks.
The Lebanese have already created a 5-30km safe zone south of the Lebanese border over the past 9 months.
No need to create a zone north of the border 😆
No such zone of safety-Hez operates right up to the border.
Safe zone is South of the Lebanese border 😱
"The German newspaper Bild reported …"
Yet the link … https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1dvykgpc … takes you to Ynet news, an Israeli propaganda rag (Is that redundant?).
In the article we find the following comment: "… the German Bild reported on Monday quoting diplomatic sources". And of course all things German are as obsequious to Israel as is humanly possible.
"which suggests"… No "suggestion" involved. This is the PLAN: the US will support Israel in trying to destroy Hezbollah – so the US and Israel can go ahead and attack Iran. This has been the PLAN for the last two decades. It didn't happen only because of other conflicts (Afghanistan) and the necessity for two administrations – the US and Israel – to be crazy enough to actually do it.
Are we having fun yet?
Biden, the cadaver-in-chief, is not in charge of anything. Whoever is in charge will determine America's involvement in any Israeli expansion of the "war" into Lebanon.
So the question is: “Who is in charge?”
AIPAC? The MIC? The Neocons? Netanyahu?
To paraphrase Caitlin Johnstone, "If the two parties are so diametrically opposite then why does US policy always follow the same trajectory no matter who is in charge?"