Posted on 10/10/2023 6:42:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War began, Israel is at war again, and preparations are being made right now for an absolutely massive ground invasion of Gaza. According to Google, the Yom Kippur War started on October 6th, 1973. The war with Hamas started on October 7th, 2023, and it could quickly evolve into a major regional war as more parties get involved. Once Israeli troops pour into Gaza, the dominoes will start falling very quickly. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be the one that makes the final decision on a ground invasion of Gaza, and he very much sounds like a man that has made up his mind…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to “change the Middle East” in Israel’s war with Palestinian militant group Hamas, as the army pounded the Gaza Strip with air strikes.
“What Hamas will experience will be difficult and terrible… we are going to change the Middle East,” Netanyahu told officials visiting Jerusalem from the country’s south, where Hamas militants carried out a surprise attack on Saturday morning.
“This is only the beginning… we are all with you and we will defeat them with force, enormous force.”
At this hour, a siege of Gaza has already begun as the IDF makes final preparations for a ground campaign.
That means that there will be no electricity, no food and no fuel for those living in Gaza until the war is done…
This morning, Israel imposed a “complete siege” on the area – including a sweeping ban on food and fuel moving into Gaza and an immediate cut-off of the water supply.
“There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said.
“We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.”
Needless to say, many of those living in Gaza will soon become extremely hungry.
And the IDF has already been hitting hundreds of strategic targets by air…
Among the 500 targets hit overnight were eight Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad war rooms; a building housing Hamas operatives; several high-rise towers housing Hamas assets; a command center used by a senior official in Hamas’s naval forces; an “operational asset used by Hamas” located within a mosque in Jabaliya; an asset used by the terror group for intelligence; and three tunnels in the Beit Hanoun area in northern Gaza.
Of course this is just the beginning.
Hundreds of thousands of troops are being mobilized, and they will possess enough firepower to absolutely flatten Gaza…
IDF are amassing their 173,000 troops including 8,000 elite commandos, along with 300 tanks and plenty of heavy weaponry on the border with Gaza in the town of Sderot.
A further 300,000 reserve troops have been mobilised in an unprecedented move and sent south ahead of the possible invasion.
The Israelis would not be mobilizing all of these troops if they did not plan to do something with them.
According to Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, this is the biggest mobilization that Israel has conducted since the Yom Kippur War…
Regarding the draft of reservists, Hagari said the IDF “has never mobilized so many reservists so quickly — 300,000 reservists in 48 hours.”
This is the largest mobilization since the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Israel called up 400,000 reservists.
Wow.
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Inside Gaza, people have already been getting phone calls warning them that the IDF will be coming in…
‘It doesn’t need much thinking about. Israel suffered the biggest loss in its history so you can imagine what it is going to do,’ said a resident of Beit Hanoun on Gaza’s northeastern border with Israel.
‘I took my family out at sunrise and dozens of other families did the same. Many of us got phone calls, audio messages from Israeli security officers telling us to leave because they will operate there,’ he said.
If you were in the same position, would you warn anyone living in Gaza in advance?
Many innocent lives may be saved by these calls, but it also tells the enemy exactly what you are planning to do.
Fox News is reporting that Netanyahu has called Joe Biden to inform him that “a ground operation in the Gaza Strip” is going to happen…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told President Biden that a ground operation in the Gaza Strip is necessary after Hamas launched deadly strikes on his country.
The remark, made in a phone call between the two leaders, came as Biden raised concerns about Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip if a ground operation should commence, three Israeli and U.S. sources briefed on the call told Axios.
“We have to go in. We can’t negotiate now,” Netanyahu told the president, according to the outlet.
But once the Israelis invade, will Hezbollah just sit there and watch Hamas get utterly destroyed?
I don’t think so.
I think that Hezbollah will create a second front in the north, and so I hope that the IDF is prepared for that.
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Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a brief statement on Monday that its helicopters are currently striking in Lebanese territory. No further details were provided.
Earlier, the IDF said a “number of armed suspects” who “infiltrated” into Israel from Lebanon were killed, and that IDF soldiers were searching the area.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers said in a statement on Monday that it has reported explosions near Al-Boustan in southwest Lebanon.
Hopefully Hezbollah will not decide to get crazy and launch a full-blown invasion of Israel.
Because if that happens, Israel has apparently told Hezbollah that it will “completely destroy Damascus”…
Israel gives clear warning to Hezbollah:
If Hezbollah joins the war, the IDF will completely destroy Damascus and will directly target the Iran-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Moreover, US warships will support Israel in this war. This message was delivered by Israel via France.
Needless to say, that would draw Syria into the war.
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What I am trying to say is that this thing could get way out of control very rapidly. For many years I have been warning my readers that a great Middle East war was coming, and now we are here. There will be so much death and destruction in the days ahead, and it won’t just be limited to that part of the world.
Why not have the Israelis do the fighting and dying? They are much closer to the situation and if they really feel that Iran is a big threat, they are the ones who should do both the fighting and the dying.
Every single involvement that we have had in the Middle East has brought us nothing but misery. Too many Americans have already died in that part of the world. We lost 34 men when the Israelis attacked the USS Liberty in 1967, we lost 264 Marines in a single truck bombing in Beirut, almost 5,000 killed in Iraq, and about 3,000 in Afghanistan, and for what?
The only thing that changed was that thousands of American families are minus their sons. This doesn’t even include the tens of thousands of men wounded, with many thousands who will suffer from their physical and mental wounds for the rest of their lives. Just consider the billions of dollars in VA compensation that will be paid out over the next 50 years to those veterans, in addition to the monetary cost of the wars themselves.
Fighting Iran just to demonstrate our ability to project power is not a good enough reason. I think the world already knows that we can project power just about anywhere we want to.
bkmk
They already have into Egypt
“If you were in the same position, would you warn anyone living in Gaza in advance?
Many innocent lives may be saved by these calls, but it also tells the enemy exactly what you are planning to do.”
I would warn the Gaza residents to get the hell out and I would ‘let’ them out. Any that remained I would reign holy hell down on, no mercy shown. That’s what needs to happen. But war, especially retaliation in war, rarely happens as it “should”.
So are you ok with providing air power at least against Hamas?
My post was very specific to the other poster’s comment.
They were saying to gather people from areas of Gaza, and if they don’t leave, execute them.
Executing unarmed prisoners is a great way to get everyone against you and solidify all Muslims into actual war.
Citizens dying in bombings is an accepted fact of war.
Executing unarmed prisoners is unacceptable.
Your ‘amazingly stupid’ idea post was in response to my post #87.
Well stated.
The population of Gaza is a little over 2 million. Israel could use its invasion as a “sweep broom”, to push them all into Egypt. Then quickly put up a new wall and bulldoze every building in Gaza.
So, extrapolate from there.
What happens in the weeks and months after nuking Iran?
Israel is safer?
Iran isn’t full of rock throwing Arabs. They’re Persian and have a relatively forward military and scientific background.
Israel nuking Iran would lead to their destruction.
Israel is small with 9 million people. Islam is 1.8 billion.
Take out Hamas.
Israel will do what they think is best, and I highly doubt anyone in power is just going to nuke Tehran.
We shelled the Druze in the mountains of Lebanon in 1983 with the battleship New Jersey, all that did was get 264 Marines killed. Let the Israelis do the fighting and dying, we don’t need to. Bomb Hamas, and you can bet that Americans somewhere will end up paying the price.
Again, it is Israel’s fight, we should stay out of it. Those wanting to support Israel can go and join the fight themselves or wave Israeli flags over here.
I think it was Bismarck who said that the Balkans weren’t worth one German life, to paraphrase that, The Middle East isnt’ worth one more American life.
I know.
You ‘extrapolated’ and brought executions into the mix. A targeted tactical nuke strike has long been on the planning board if the time arises.
Egypt does not want them.
They saw what they did to Jordan.......................
OK, we disagree on at least this point: Americans are going to die — there and here — regardless of what we do. You don’t seem to get that. I’d prefer we have professional warfighters take out as many bad guys as they can before that comes to pass here. And it will.
Think we have about worn out this conversation.
Yep.
Aside from all that, people here seem to think Israel needs our help.
We sell them military equipment and have provided over $25 billion for free since the issues they had in 2014.
As you said, you want to fight, go fight.
Same for Ukraine.
Try reading to whom I posted to.
Did you even read the post?
I specifically said I was responding to another poster who brought it up…
Maybe take a look at the comment thread between euram and me? Covered a lot of points you may find of interest. While I respect your posts, think we have some difference of opinion here.
And as soon as all that gets spun up, the sleepers here in the US will start their missions. Life will get interesting. I’ve told my kids to start carrying everywhere they go.
Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)
My daughter does. CCW...................
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