Posted on 09/04/2024 8:29:36 AM PDT by SJackson
Israel took to heart the wisdom of a passage in the Talmud.
Hezbollah claims that its attack on Israel on the morning of August 25 was a “success.” Hezbollah released a statement insisting that “by God’s grace, the first stage has been fully completed with complete success. This stage involved targeting Israeli barracks and sites to facilitate the passage of attack drones towards their intended destination deep within the entity [Israel]. The drones passed, praise be to God, as planned. The number of Katyusha rockets fired so far has exceeded 320 rockets directed at the enemy’s positions.”
We all know better. None of the eleven military bases that Hezbollah claimed to have hit, including the headquarters of the intelligence Unit 8200 at Glilot, were damaged in the slightest. That’s because the IDF took to heart the wisdom of the passage in the Talmud, that says “if someone says he is coming to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” That’s what the IDF did, unleashing a terrific preemptive attack on Hezbollah’s weapons before 5 a.m. Instead of the 6,000 rockets Hezbollah had ready to go on their launchers, only about 200 were left intact after the IDF’s preemptive attack, and those few hundred — closer to 200 than to the 320 Hezbollah claimed to have launched — that were let loose on the Jewish state did little damage to Israel. Iron Dome again performed spectacularly in intercepting incoming rockets. The result was that while nearly 5,800 Hezbollah rockets and launchers were destroyed, in Israel only some houses in northern Israel were slightly damaged. As for casualties, one Israeli sailor was killed from shrapnel when an Iron Dome missile intercepted an incoming rocket.
More on how those wonder-workers at the IDF meticulously planned for what they finally did before dawn on August 25 can be found here: “Hezbollah still in shock, assessing damage from Israel’s pre-emptive strike – IDF Col.,” by Avi Ashkenazi, Jerusalem Post, August 27, 2024:
Colonel Anan Abbas, Head of Control at the Northern Command’s central operations room, revealed in an interview with Maariv on Tuesday that the recent operation against Hezbollah required months of meticulous preparation. “Hezbollah is trying to assess the extent of the damage they’ve sustained,” he said.
“We attacked thousands of launchers and crippled Hezbollah’s capabilities, and our operations [haven’t finished yet]. It appears Hezbollah is still in shock. They’re trying to comprehend the extent of the damage inflicted on them, and they’ll fully understand it in the coming days. Right now, they’re just beginning to grasp what happened and how it unfolded,” Abbas explained.
Earlier in the week, the IDF emphasized that while the operation was primarily tactical, it sent powerful signals to Hezbollah—messages that could potentially lead to broader strategic shifts.
“It seems Hezbollah was genuinely surprised,” noted Abbas. “Their shock comes from the sheer number of planes we deployed simultaneously, striking an overwhelming number of targets in a very short time. They’re also astonished by the precision of our strikes—how we managed to accurately hit so many objectives, neutralize their assets, and do so without harming civilians or causing collateral damage.”…
Even now, Hezbollah has still not grasped the full extent of the damage done to it by the IDF. It cannot quite believe that nearly 6,000 rockets were destroyed within an hour; that more than 100 planes managed to fly all at once over Lebanon, conduct their pinpoint-precision airstrikes, and return, without any damage to a single plane, back to Israel. After this colossal defeat, Hezbollah might want to reconsider its policy of send rockets into northern Israel, expecting only a tit-for-tat response, given this display of the IDF’s terrifying prowess and what it may do again. Nasrallah must be thinking, “it makes better sense for us to stop our own attacks, let 80,000 internally displaced Israelis return to their homes in the north, and 70,000 of our own people, who were displaced from southern Lebanon, return to their homes. For now, we can’t afford another massive Israeli attack that could come at any moment. And Israel only wants its people to be able to return home. So let’s give them what they want — trade quiet for quiet. For now, the IDF doesn’t leave us much choice.”
All the battlefield command is dead, so there’s nobody to tell the average boot on the ground what’s up.
However. As long as there is one little muzzle that mutters Aloha Snackbar or death to Israel then the intifada goes on.
They deal with 911’s daily. We don’t. Radio host Mark Davis once said that if he were in charge and another 911 hit these shore 13 Arab capitols would turn to glass.
Are we prepared to do that?
Iran is a gigantic KEY to the mess. Not the only, but HUGE.
The Biden Admin. has been helping Iran flourish financially.
Insanity.
Never underestimate the value of reliable intelligence. Mossad agents within Hezbollah are the real unsung heroes. Suspect an agent visited one time or another those rocket sites and left a miniture homing device.
I agree with that sentiment. But I’d avoid attacking the members of the Abraham Accords. Those nations seem to be avoiding their fellow Muslims from attacking Israel for Iran. Even with the 2020 vote steal, Trump is the gift that keeps on giving.
There are huge differences between the Israeli/Jewish culture and the Arab/Moslem culture.
The Israeli/Jewish culture does not require it to be the only culture.
They are not seeking the elimination of all other cultures.
The Arab/Moslem culture does demand the elimination of all other cultures.
The political leaders of Arab/Moslem nations must put forth some effort to eliminate the other cultures in order to maintain their political control.
We, The United States, walk a fine line in this matter.
We recognize how wrong the Arab/Moslem intent for total domination is, but we must maintain relations with them mostly because of their oil.
This is another reason to elect President Trump.
He works for our energy independence while The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate seeks to merely gain wealth by taking bribes from the Arab/Moslem nations.
There are still plenty of missiles hidden in Lebanon. All it takes is a few Iran-trained militias.
Doing just what the rabbis say.
https://steinsaltz.org/daf/sanhedrin72/
Judaism does not subscribe to the idea that one should “turn the other cheek” when attacked. In fact, one important rule taught by the Talmud is ha-ba le-horgekha, hashkem le-horgo – if someone comes planning to kill you, you should hurry to kill him first.
I hope it wasn’t the passages about Jesus boiling in excrement or it being ok to have sex with goyim girls until they are 9 years old (but not after because then they are unclean animals).
Not just insanity, but treason, IMHO.
Ouch!
That Will leave a mark.
The success of the IDF preemptive attack on Hezbollah and Hamas killing the 6 hostages is what is behind the current protests against the Israeli government. Hamas knew they would get the support of the international media and far-left groups in Israel.
Nasrallah will double down.
“kill Japs, kill Japs and keep on killing Japs.” Admiral Halsey.
That is why Dems pretend that Biden produced more energy than we needed. But if US energy production does not stomp China's, we will be sorry. AI requires a huge increase.
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