Posted on 10/12/2023 5:07:12 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
As Israelis grieve the death of more than 1,200 of our fellow citizens, and the wounding of 3,000 more, our country is beginning to shift from defense to offense.
Already, the Israeli Air Force is bombing hundreds of terror targets in the Gaza Strip.
At the same time, the IDF has called up more than 300,000 reservists to serve on the ground.
These soldiers are currently preparing, training, equipping and deploying to invade the Gaza Strip and destroy Hamas once and for all.
Yet even as Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and his military planners organize such an invasion, they have other concerns.
What if the Iranian regime orders the Hezbollah terrorist force in Lebanon to open up a second front and attack Israel from the north?
Already, several skirmishes on the northern border have erupted.
(Excerpt) Read more at allisrael.com ...
I get the feeling of deja vu with all this. Weird.
Our ships may discover that they aren’t immune to modern war technologies and strategies.
We better be very careful, very alert.
Received report yesterday northern Israel was seeing groups of paraglides.
If it really came to it, Israel could bomb the Russian Air Force bases in Syria. I think Putin is going to put a leash on Hezbollah.
“Two nights ago, I read all of Biden’s security people, can you imagine, national defense people, and they said, ‘Gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn’t attack from the north, because that’s the most vulnerable spot,’” Trump told the crowd. “I said, ‘Wait a minute.’ You know, Hezbollah is very smart. They’re all very smart.”
Loose lips...
Hezzbolah was smart enough to hear this intel leak and exploit it.
It’s no secret that Israel’s border in the north with Lebanon and in the northeast with Syria at the Golan Heights are the most exposed.
And Hezbollah is smart enough to figure it out on their own.
That was a false alarm. (At least I hope.)
Could be a bad leak. Then again it could be a ‘Don’t throw me in that briar patch’ tactic.
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1) do they have enough fighting men to repel an invasion from the north, or better still if attacked to push them back another 20 miles and hold the land? They had a hard time doing it the last go around but I think they did not deploy a lot of troops. They took a lot of casualties.
2) I hope we are selling and delivering enough interceptor missiles as fast as we can produce them for their Iron Dome. I have always believed the Iron Dome is a life saver for both sides. If they can knock a rocket out of the sky it saves lives in Israel, and doesn’t force them into a ground invasion that will cause deaths on both sides. It’s really a remarkable system in that regard.
3) I don’t want the US to get involved militarily. That said, we owe Hezbullah some payback for the 1980 Marine barracks bombing. That bill may come due now. In further of this thought, could it be that there are other parties in the ME that want to see Hezbullah eradicated as much as they want to see Hamas eradicated? I dare say yes. So maybe, just maybe, the Saudis and Gulf States and many in the Lebanese establishment would like to see them crushed. Perhaps a few others. Maybe the time to change the dynamics in the region entirely is now.
A very interesting scenario.
Barracks bombing was 1983.
The US should take out Iran’s navy and air power. Wouldn’t be too hard. Israelis can deal w/the ground stuff.
That would be something else if that happened.
WWIII would be impossible to avoid at that point.
Turkey, China, and Russia would massively protest.
They don’t need a navy or air force to keep the oil flowing.
In fact, if the US decided to put Iran under temporary occupation until they formed a new government, we could honor their contracts with a thin slice off the top.
Correction accepted. I was thinking Reagan, inaugurated 1980.
So how did it end up the first time?
Your comment is the most meaningful I have read all day. THIS is the crux. The Middle East CANNOT truly progress so long as these barbaric terrorist groups fed by Iran are left in place for going on 50 years now. Hamas, Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the entire PLO/PA/Fatah dictatorship as well are a lead weight on the neck of the region, harming both Jews and Arabs from moving forward to a modern age and to peace and prosperity. I DO NOT want a U.S. war with Iran in any way, nor an Israeli one. But if the U.S. and Israel can cooperate in destroying Hizbollah and Hamas completely, Iran would be so weakened as to invite a revolt from within, which we could support financially and with arms.
so many possibilities, and so many ways to also f**k things up...particularly if the Linda Grahams and Neocons take the reigns of it.
Nope. the U.S. is still far too dominant in every way except drones. And those would not be a factor in the wanton obliteration of Iran's navy, missile capabilities and weak air force. A swift, coordinated attack from the U.S., Israel, Saudis and India would stun Russia and China into silence. Erdogan is very sly and would stay out of it, looking for a way to increase his power in the resulting vacuum.
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