Posted on 06/01/2026 7:15:20 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
The world's diplomatic attention is fixed on Pakistan, on ceasefire memoranda, on whether Mojtaba Khamenei will emerge from hiding long enough to initial a document. In that distraction, Israel has done something strategically significant in Lebanon that has received almost no serious analysis (but was highlighted on Arutz Sheva). It has crossed the Litani River.
Israeli forces have advanced beyond the Litani, a line that for decades functioned as an unofficial boundary in southern Lebanon. Troops are now pushing northward toward the Zahrani River, roughly ten kilometers away. The IDF has declared the entire area between the two rivers an active combat zone, has destroyed several bridges spanning the Litani to sever Hezbollah's supply lines....
This is not a raid. It is a territorial reorganization.
The Litani has been a symbolic and political threshold for half a century. UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war, was premised on Hezbollah withdrawing north of it - but it did not. Every subsequent diplomacy around southern Lebanon treated it as a floor below which Israeli power would not permanently project.
Israel has now made clear that floor no longer holds, and it has done so with almost no international outcry, because the world is watching Iran.
The timing is not coincidental. Israel is shaping the battlefield while nuclear talks proceed, understanding something that Western commentators consistently underestimate: the leverage in any negotiation is determined by the facts on the ground, not by the goodwill of the parties at the table.
Every kilometer of southern Lebanese territory that Israeli forces consolidate before a permanent deal, if one will be made, is a kilometer that will have to be explicitly negotiated back, if it is negotiated back at all.
The operational logic is coherent. Hezbollah initiated this conflict...
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Every time the left says that Israel should "go back to pre-1967 boundaries", Israel hears it as "the Israel haters should keep using those areas to attack Israel". Southern Lebanon is no different.
Israel with the only outpost of Western civilization in a sea of 8th Century barbarians. We need to support and defend them at current levels, but I don't see that continuing due to the morons on the Left and the Woke Right.
No mention of radical Islamists making northern Israel vacant?
Israel has a very functional domestic weapons industry.
L
It will be the former, not that latter. They days when the US buys some temporary peace with Iran and its proxies by handcuffing Israel has ended
Trump has flipped the board. If Iran doesn't undergo regime change, then the Straights will be closed forever and Iran will be contained to wither on the vine. The GCC nations will export their oil from pipelines elsewhere, and meanwhile the world will put new oil money and investment away from the Persian Gulf. It will cease to be important in world politics.
Kill all the savages.
And their families.
L
“A” red line or “THE” red line?
The sooner the better.
Why?
What has it gained us to take up Israel's wars in 'a sea of 8th century barbarians'?
Because it has cost us thousands of lives, and trillions of dollars.
What have we gained for it?
Taking our shoes off at the airport?
GCC nations can use the Strait now. It may become necessary to provide armed escorts for their shipping until the withering is complete, but after that, it’ll be party time.
I'm a Catholic and I love Israel and root for them every time there is a conflict in the mid-East.
One of my best friends from back in the 60's is a conservative Jew and he calls me every Christmas {he always says, he's got nothing else to do}.
I have discussed with him why so many American Jews are demonRAT and he can't explain it and he cannot use reason and logic to talk them out of it.
Maybe after what is going on in NY, the American Jew will wake up, but I doubt it.
I'd like to see the Israeli Army go all the way up to the northern border in Lebanon and clean out the whole rat's nest.
Lebanon was once a beautiful country until the mooselimb terrorists corrupted it.
Good, Hezbollah needs to be eliminated, and Lebanon be freed from their terroism. I do have issues with the headline though, because obviously some have noticed for this article to be available.
Bibi’s already stated his intention to do just that.
As for the morons on the Left, they will not be the first party to become defunct. Haven’t heard much from the Wigs, the Federalists, the Populists or the Bull Moose parties lately. The morons will go home to their mom’s basement, bitter and unable to learn from mistakes. Or maybe they’ll do what the Republicans were doing after Nixon’s resignation, and run infomercials about how bad it would be to have just one party, with celebrities trying to convince people that they’re Republicans, and nice people. Really. It would be a fitting end to their reign of error. But new morons will arise.
Mills says there are always at least two political parties, one favoring freedom, the other favoring order. The Democrats are opposed to both. They must go the way of the dodo.
The IDF made no secret of their actions. Nobody is willing to make a fuss at this time, and Mr. Ayoub is fine with it.
[snip] The world's diplomatic attention is fixed on Pakistan, on ceasefire memoranda, on whether Mojtaba Khamenei will emerge from hiding long enough to initial a document. In that distraction, Israel has done something strategically significant in Lebanon that has received almost no serious analysis (but was highlighted on Arutz Sheva). It has crossed the Litani River... UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war, was premised on Hezbollah withdrawing north of it - but it did not... Israel is shaping the battlefield while nuclear talks proceed, understanding something that Western commentators consistently underestimate: the leverage in any negotiation is determined by the facts on the ground, not by the goodwill of the parties at the table. Every kilometer of southern Lebanese territory that Israeli forces consolidate before a permanent deal, if one will be made, is a kilometer that will have to be explicitly negotiated back, if it is negotiated back at all. [/snip]
It also strengthens Lebanon's hand against the Iranian proxy that has occupied Lebanon for 40 years.
They would have stayed in Jordan, if King Hussein hadn’t wised up to their game and drove them out. They’ve been festering and swelling there, ever since.
And he did not drive them out without good reason. They were trying to overthrow his regime and were causing misery everywhere in Jordan.
Stockholm syndrome comes to mind.
Pefect codittions for them to operate in, and it futher weakens Iran in the process as well. 😁🤙
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