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| The looming war so gruesome it would make Gaza look like child's play: MARK DUBOWITZ's grave warning... | |
| 2024-06-26 | |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …about the imminent clash that might even wake Sleepy Joe Biden. Less than 72 hours before the first debate of the US presidential election, Joe Biden's White House is bumbling. On Sunday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Q. Brown made the extraordinary claim that America will not protect Israel in a war with Lebanon's Hezbollah terrorists. 'The U.S. won't likely be able to help Israel defend itself against a broader Hezbollah war as well as it helped Israel fight off an Iranian barrage of missiles and drones,' Brown told reporters. By Monday, U.S. officials were backtracking, reportedly issuing a rare warning through intermediaries to the Iranian-backed terror group. Two U.S. officials told Politico that Hezbollah cannot count on America to stop Israel from launching an attack on Lebanese soil. The officials said, the terrorists 'need to understand that Washington will help Israel defend itself' against any counter-aggression. Reasonable enough. After all, we don't negotiate with terrorists. But the bungling of officialdom is inexcusable. This is not the time for the White House to be sending mixed signals.
For seven months, Hezbollah terrorists have been raining thousands of rockets and missiles on communities in northern Israel forcing some 60,000 residents to evacuate. Meanwhile, new reports suggest Tehran's mullahs are shipping more weapons directly into Lebanon on flights from Iran to fuel their terror proxy. Hezbollah is now equipped with thousands of high-tech drones and mortars, and an arsenal of more than 200,000 additional rockets and missiles. That's ten times the munitions that Hezbollah had during its last major war with Israel in 2006. The Shia Muslim extremists also have an army of at least 20,000 men, though some experts say the true figure could be five times when reservists are included. In contrast, Hamas was thought to have fewer than 25,000 fighters at the start of its war with Israel. So make no mistake: The Middle East is now closer to all-out regional war than it was when Israel traded direct strikes with Iran in the months after Hamas's October 7 terror attacks. And if this primed Lebanon-border powder keg explodes, it will make the current conflict in Gaza seem like a walk in the park. War with Hezbollah would result in thousands of both Israeli and Lebanese casualties. Iran would likely intervene, firing its missiles and drones directly at Israel, as it did in April. The Islamic Republic would also have the power to unleash its other terror proxies from Iraq, Syria, Yemen and the West Bank against Israel. Despite its enviable 'Iron Dome' technology, Israel doesn't have sufficient air defenses to defend all of its borders simultaneously. And with so much activity in the skies, key energy, military and transportation sites would likely be prioritized over, say, civilian communities. Left undefended, Israelis throughout the country would be forced to spend months in shelters as their cities and towns were pounded daily. Much of Lebanon – its communities far more affluent and better-developed than Gaza's crumbling cities and town – would be utterly destroyed. The IDF would likely level neighborhoods, hunting Hezbollah's massive weapons caches and rooting out terrorist foot soldiers hidden among civilians. A clash has been a long time coming. Related: Charles Q. Brown 04/19/2024 Israel ‘badly miscalculated' Iranian response to Damascus strike – New York Times Charles Q. Brown 03/31/2024 Top US general said to lay out Washington's proposed alternative to Rafah offensive ‐ report Charles Q. Brown 03/30/2024 US approves transfer of over 2,000 bombs, 25 F-35s to Israel ‐ report | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #9 Iran is the enemy. Iran declared war on the USS in 1979. Occupy chah bahar. |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2024-06-26 08:28 |
| #8 Reduce southern Lebanon to radioactive waste. (a) Dangerous proximity. (b) Unnecessary: given the amounts of weapons Hezbollah squirrered, secondary explosions will be enough. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-26 07:52 |
| #7 Reduce southern Lebanon to radioactive waste. Given everyone else wants you to roll over and die, who cares what they think. Make them worry about what you will do next. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-06-26 07:10 |
| #6 |
| Posted by: Betty BoBo 2024-06-26 05:38 |
| #5 ^Herb? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-26 02:31 |
| #4 USA should have gone full Gaza on Iran years ago. Some ally! |
| Posted by: Vortigern Borgia1150 2024-06-26 02:29 |
| #3 The best thing to hit in Iran is their irrigation system. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-26 02:16 |
| #2 /\ Here, you may need this. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-06-26 02:14 |
| #1 Maybe, just maybe, Israel should ignore the UN on this one. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-26 02:11 |