Posted on 10/22/2023 4:35:05 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
[Israel's Minister of Economy Nir] Barkat, in an interview with the Daily Mail, warned that Israel would view an escalation in Hezbollah's actions as an attack by Iran.
"The plan of Iran is to attack Israel on all fronts. If we find they intend to target Israel, we will not just retaliate to those fronts, but we will go to the head of the snake, which is Iran," he said.
Barkat threatened "we are going to make sure they pay a heavy price if, God forbid, they open the northern front."
"Lebanon and Hezbollah are going to pay a heavy price, similar to what Hamas is going to pay. But that's not enough," he said. "The very clear message is that we are going to be going after the heads of Iran as well. When will we do that? When we decide."
Barkat continued: "Israel has a very clear message to our enemies. We are saying to them, look what's happening in Gaza—you are going to get the same treatment if you attack us. We are going to wipe you off the face of the Earth."...
Jonathan Conricus, a spokesperson for Israel's military, said Sunday that Hezbollah is "dragging Lebanon into a war that it will gain nothing from, but stands to lose a lot," according to Lebanese news site Naharnet.
He said that the Lebanese militant group is "playing a very, very dangerous game. They're escalating the situation. We see more and more attacks every day. Is the Lebanese state really willing to jeopardize what is left of Lebanese prosperity and Lebanese sovereignty for the sake of terrorists in Gaza?"...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
“ Iran is the oldest continuously established country in the world at 3,200 years. I think that’s about long enough.”
Maybe that should be “Palestine”.
So you think Iran is just sleeping and minding its own business and Israel is just an afterthought in this entire Gaza operation? Israel is sending a very clear message and warning. If Iran tells Hezobolla to stand down, they will.
When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don’t talk. -Tuco
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
Just a thought.
I had to read the headline twice…. Usually that kind of statement comes out of Iran.
They can sure do it
Not sure it’s politically smart
Lebanon is 35% Christian and 5% Druze
Are we killing a couple million them too while we’re on it?
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Israel has the military might to wipe out all of hezbollah and hamas. Why didn’t they in the past but all of sudden they are threatening genocide now? It is not like hamas has not done this before. The US bombed isis into oblivian. Why did we do that as opposed to letting the group stick around?
Strategic analysis is ugly since we live in an evil world but one can not simply discount potential root causes. How many times do we hear “follow the money”? By the way, the US does something similar with china and russia. Both are created into “huge” threats to justify the industrial military complex. The US constantly gets into unnecessary wars, gets soldiers killed yet achieves nothing except to fund the building of more weapons.
Sorry to see you are so uneducated as to not to be able to think about root causes.
“Why didn’t they in the past but all of sudden they are threatening genocide now?”
What race are the Israelis threatening to wipe out? When did Gazan become a race? Clear that up for me and I’ll deal with the rest of your drivel.
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Time for Israel to go Biblical here. Fire and brimstone, wrath of God, End of days for the mullahs.
People like you are simply to stupid to have a discussion with.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/genocide
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