...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers..., where its forces are staging a simulated military exercise.
What’s the difference between simulated and real in this context?
Masked fighters jump through flaming hoops, fire from the backs of cycle of violences, and blow up Israeli flags posted in the hills above and a wall simulating the one at the border between Lebanon and Israel.Scary.
Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine says in a speech that the exercise is meant to "confirm our complete readiness to confront any aggression" by Israel.The exercise comes ahead of "Liberation Day," the Lebanese annual celebration of the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon on May 25, 2000, and in the wake of a recent escalation of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
. Paleostinian terror group Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,, which rules Gaza, has long had ties with Hezbollah, and both groups are backed by Iran.
They really, really want to make a pincer, crushing Israel between Lebanon and Gaza. Only it’s them, you see, which is more than a bit of a handicap.
The recent heightened tensions also come months after Israel and Lebanon signed a landmark US-brokered maritime border agreement, which many analysts predicted would lower the risk of a future military confrontation between the two countries.The Israeli military declines to comment on the Hezbollah exercise.
Several watchers had turned slightly blue, they were laughing so hard. Oxygen has been fetched, so there should be something soon.