Posted on 10/01/2024 7:27:33 AM PDT by Words Matter
IDF invasion of southern Lebanon meets no Hezbollah resistance. By Yonah Jeremy Bob. 10/01/2024.
The invasion is expected to end within weeks, and should consist of several short special forces missions into southern Lebanon. The IDF’s invasion into southern Lebanon which started Monday night just before 10:00 p.m. has met almost no resistance from Hezbollah, with not a single IDF soldier killed so far.
The invasion is expected to end within weeks, despite IDF spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari indicating it may last longer.
In some ways, the invasion is viewed as a broadening of a large number of very short nightly special forces missions into southern Lebanon, which have been going on for an extended period.
Following a situation assessment, the IDF announced it was remobilizing four additional brigades in support of operations in Lebanon.
IDF sources explained that the heavy bombing campaign over the last two weeks, the massive tank and artillery fire just before entering, and months of wearing down Hezbollah’s forces seem to have moved them out of the area or into hiding.
Unlike in the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the IDF said that Hezbollah’s top and medium level command levels have been eliminated in substantial numbers, leaving a massive strategic vacuum.
Despite the invasion, the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, and two weeks of heavy bombing of much of the terror group’s best rockets, the IDF said Hezbollah has failed to mount any serious strategic rocket threat to Israel, let alone to fire the 6,000-8,000 rockets per day which were expected in a worst case scenario.
Flush the rats out of the nest and kill every last one of them.
Every last one.
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No radios and no phone tends to cut off communication, command, and control. If I were Hezbolah I wouldn’t even turn on the television or make a pot of coffee.
Too afraid to answer the “call to arms”!
Hezbollah are cowards, they can only fight when shielded by women and children so they are on the run.
They don’t have the b@lls to control South Lebanon anymore!
“No radios and no phone tends to cut off communication, command, and control.”
This could account for the lack of resistance by the terrorists.
Or perhaps the terrorists are counting on Iran to make the big revenge play.
One known fact that kind of stays in the background - Israel is a nuclear armed state. If Iran were to launch an attack that threatened the state of Israel, Iran could cease to exist.
Iran has to think through their actions very carefully.
It's like to be payback time by A) the local population, who already know who they are, and B) possibly by the Syrians, who were chased out of Lebanon by Hezbollah (Iran) some years ago and lost their Lebanese cash cow and some nice villas and such. The second one is unlikely, because Assad needs Iran to hold down the Syrian population and lacks the resources to do it on his own.
If Hezbollah sits idle they will lose credibility with the Arab world; it will make taking away their rocket inventory easier for the Israelis; and it will take off one of Iran's testicles - I meant to say tentacles.
All bad outcomes for the terrorists.
I would bet dollars to donuts that every schoolboy knows the name and address of every Hezbollah operative in his neighborhood. The Israelis have plenty of Arab speakers and plenty of chocolate. Spread a little candy and every one of them will be turned in. I don’t think Hezbollah will take the chance. I bet they will search and destroy the homes of every Hezbollah operative. (Some innocent people who fled north will also be “turned in” by spiteful assholes. Too bad for them.) Search every home for intel value and arms, after taking care of booby traps. Then destroy or remove anything of value. Take the plumbing fixtures, the electrical panel, every last scrap of anything of value.
Page them. Ha! Ha!
Hezbollah has TURNEED a “page”
They should claim more territory as their own, especially the hilly region on the south west side of Lebanon.
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak” is a quote from The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Amen. FREE LEBANON.
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