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2019-08-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hezbollah plans ‘calculated’ response to Israel: Sources
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hezbollah is preparing a "calculated strike" against its enemy Israel after suspected Israeli drones crashed in Beirut but it aims to avoid a new war, two sources allied to Hezbollah told Rooters on Tuesday.

A reaction "is being arranged in a way which wouldn’t lead to a war" that Hezbollah does not want, one of the sources said.

"The direction now is for a calculated strike, but how matters develop, that’s another thing."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday Hezbollah leader Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
should "calm down" after Nasrallah said the Iranian-backed movement would respond to the crash of two drones in a Beirut suburb.

In a speech on Sunday, Nasrallah described the drones, including one that had went kaboom!, as the first Israeli attack in Leb since the two sides fought a month-long war in 2006.

"I say to the Israeli army on the border from tonight, stand guard. Wait for us one, two, three, four days," Nasrallah said.

Posted by Fred 2019-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10329 views ]  Top
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#1 Are they learning?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-08-28 10:47||   2019-08-28 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 The Hezbies need to do *something* to maintain their 'street cred'. Doing nothing makes them look like Israel's bitch, but if they go to far with their newly supplied missiles and such, they risk getting stomped hard and being back to square one - in addition to being dead. It's complicated.
Posted by SteveS 2019-08-28 13:21||   2019-08-28 13:21|| Front Page Top

#3 So it will be a number less than which can be counted on two hands and a foot?
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-08-28 15:32||   2019-08-28 15:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Calculated? Might take a while since they will have to guess at the answer to 1+1.
Posted by gorb 2019-08-28 20:04||   2019-08-28 20:04|| Front Page Top

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