by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
Months of negotiations have proved fruitless, and it appears that we really are about to get a “full-fledged war” in the Middle East. Sadly, I don’t think that any of the parties involved have really thought this through. Both sides have been arming themselves to the teeth since the last war ended in 2006, and both sides are willing to literally do whatever it takes to win. Of course Israel will not just be fighting Hezbollah this time around. The IDF will be facing an entire alliance of enemies, and in order to win such a conflict the Israelis will be forced to do things that they would rather not do.
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On Tuesday, Israel and Hezbollah just continued to pummel one another…
Israel announced dozens of new air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon Tuesday, a day after Lebanese officials say 558 people, including 50 children, were killed in the deadliest bombardment since a devastating war in 2006. Israel’s latest strikes on southern Lebanon came after it said it had killed a “large number” of militants as it struck about 1,500 suspected Hezbollah targets around the country.
Hezbollah said Tuesday it had launched volleys of missiles at Israeli military bases, hours after 180 of its projectiles and an unmanned aerial vehicle crossed into Israeli airspace, sending people in the city of Haifa running for shelter. The Israeli military said more than 50 projectiles were fired into northern Israel in less than 10 minutes on Tuesday morning, most of which were intercepted.
In addition to projectiles, Hezbollah also sent drones deep into Israeli territory.
In fact, it is being reported that drones actually targeted a naval base which is located quite a bit south of Haifa…
Sky News and others are reporting that for the first time of the conflict, Hezbollah has launched a drone attack on a navy base which lies south of Haifa. The Atlit navy base which was targeted lies 80 kilometers from the Lebanese border. This is an attack significantly deep into Israel and reveals an extended range of Hezbollah missiles. Likely as things slide further, and with Israel keeping up its intense airstrikes on Lebanon, Hezbollah missiles will begin reaching further and further.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said late in the day Tuesday (local time) on X: “We will continue striking Hezbollah. Anyone who has a missile in their living room and a rocket in their garage will not have a home.”
Hezbollah just keeps escalating matters, and this is a huge mistake, because it is just going to make Israel even more determined to take action.
IDF forces are being deployed to northern Israel, and a spokesperson for the IDF has told the press that the army is at a state of “full-scale readiness”…
Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, spokesperson for the IDF, insisted military chiefs were “not looking for wars” but would do “whatever is necessary” to ensure Israel’s security.
He later clarified the army was at “full-scale readiness”, meaning an invasion could be on the cards.
My personal opinion is that Israel will not launch an operation in southern Lebanon this month.
But Israeli President Isaac Herzog is warning that “we will do whatever it takes to bring our citizens back home and enable calm in our cities”…
“Israel is not interested, did not want this war, and is not interested in going to war with Lebanon,” Herzog told CNBC’s Dan Murphy on Tuesday.
“But Israel has been attacked from Oct. 8 from Lebanon endlessly. And if you look at the situation today, Hezbollah has launched missiles and rockets all over the northern part of Israel. So we will do whatever it takes to bring our citizens back home and enable calm in our cities. That’s the situation.”
“We’ve shown our capabilities, and we have much more on the way, if they will continue,” Herzog added.
For now, I expect that Israel will continue to strike Hezbollah targets all over southern Lebanon, and thousands upon thousands of local residents are fleeing north in order to escape the violence…
Cars choked Lebanon’s highways as people fled into the night, trying to escape north toward the capital Beirut.
“It was a day of terror,” 41-year-old housewife Thuraya Harb told AFP at a makeshift center for displaced families in Beirut after fleeing her home in south Lebanon.
“I didn’t want to leave my home, but the children were scared,” the mother of four said, adding that the family fled “with nothing but the clothes on our backs.”
So many families and so many children on both sides are being affected by this conflict.
That should deeply sadden all of us.
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