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Scrooge McDuck ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1751 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 ![]() ![]() |
This thread is intended to discuss the escalating conflict between the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon and Israel, which is increasingly turning into a war. This includes events on the territory of Syria which is used as a transit corridor for Iranian arms transports as well as a staging ground for attacks by Hezbollah and other proxies of the Mullah regime against northern Israel. I assume also of interest here is the difficult relation between the (sovereign?) Lebanese state government and Hezbollah, the influential islamist political party and most powerful military force in Lebanon which controls Southern Lebanon; a violation of UNSC resolution 1701 from August 2006. |
Scrooge McDuck ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1751 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 ![]() ![]() |
https://www.newsweek.com/us-issues-warning-israel-lebanon-border-1912323 wrote: Cross-border fire has been near constant since Hamas' October 7 attack on southern Israel, with Hezbollah—a fellow member of the Iranian-led "Axis of Resistance"—launching attacks in support of the Palestinian militant group and demanding a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. |
Scrooge McDuck ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1751 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 ![]() ![]() |
Unable to back down, Israel and Hezbollah move closer to all-out war Full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah would be "a catastrophe" [...]. But to David Kamari, who lives under near-daily fire on the Israeli side of the border, it would be a solution. |
Scrooge McDuck ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1751 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 ![]() ![]() |
Will the Golan Heights rocket spark an inferno? An Iran-made ballistic missile hit a sports ground in Israel's Golan Heights and killed 12 children and teenagers. They are members of the Arab Druze people, a Shia-muslim minority in Israel. Following Israel's annexation of the Golan Height's from Syria which formed a staging ground for Syrian tank armies in three wars of agression, the Druze minory kept their Syrian citizenship but get an unlimited residence permit in Israel. So the Shia-muslim terrorist army Hezbollah attacks Shia muslim kids in the Golan to fight Israel. Enough said about Hezbollah and Iran in this conflict. Rocket strike puts Israel and Hezbollah on the brink of all-out war |
Scrooge McDuck ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1751 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 ![]() ![]() |
Is there a strategic benefit of exploding thousands of pagers, most of them supposedly carried by Hezbollah group leaders, if this will injure most of them but obviously could only neutralize few of them? There is a benefit in switching of their encrypted and non-detectable (receivers only) communication network; that is, to cause chaos in their command and control capabilities... IF an enemy (supposedly Israel) intends to start a massive attack on them within hours... or days? I can't see such intentions. So, what is this all about? An immature show of power? Boasting? ... or enfuriating Hezbollah leaders... tempt them to take hasty, ill-considered and thus weakening steps? A mystery. Did the person who pressed the button knew about benefits and costs? A button you can only press once... I doubt that... |
Scrooge McDuck ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1751 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 ![]() ![]() |
What we know about Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal Hezbollah fighters will be replaced by Lebanese army forces in that area, who will ensure that infrastructure or weaponry is removed and that it cannot be rebuilt [...]Btw. what was UNIFIL's task over the last 20 years? So they are going to repeat past mistakes, are they? UNIFIL is the same waste of money and efforts of international troop providers, like UNPROFOR was in Bosnia of the 1990s. UN troops are inept to suppress conflicts fueled by belligerent state actors (in Lebanon: Mullahs). "There will be no US combat troops in the area, but there will be military support for the Lebanese Armed Forces, as we've done in the past. But in this case, it'll be typically done with the Lebanese army and in conjunction with the French military as well," [...]I still don't understand why France thinks it should be part of this deal. Is Monsieur Macron, in the twilight of his presidency, reminiscing about French great power of the past? Does he understand that it is now also France that is responsible to hold back and contain Hezbollah (which UNIFIL never was capable of)? How? Macron rejects French boots on the ground (hopefully he and Biden remember the last such attempt in the 1980s). Ultimately, Biden and Macron think they know better than Israel how to contain Hezbollah. Biden forced Netanyahu into this ceasefire. If it turns out not to be permanent, France and the USA are to blame. A win-win situation for Israel which enforced UN resolution 1701 PLUS claimed the strategic freedom to intervene in Lebanon whenever the ceasefire is violated, tolerated by the USA. |
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