...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah 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 dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original 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...to destroy Hezbollah positions, ahead of a possible ground invasion, taking advantage of disarray in the terrorist organization.
ABC News reported Saturday night:
Small-scale operations or ''border movements'' into Lebanon to take out Hezbollah positions right on the border have begun or are about to, according to two U.S. officials.
Israel does not yet appear to have fully decided whether to launch a ground operation but is prepared for one, the officials said. If a ground operation happens, its scope will likely be limited, sources said. The key is fulfilling the promise to Israelis that the tens of thousands displaced from northern Israel will be able to go home. To do that, decapitating Hezbollah is not enough, the officials said.
The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported that Israel has been infiltrating Lebanon for a long time for intelligence operations:
Israel has used Lebanon's proximity to its advantage — Jerusalem is less than 150 miles from the Lebanese border — to insert undercover commandos deep into the country to conduct sensitive intelligence missions.
Most important, former U.S. and Israeli officials say that Israel's audacity to carry out such operations set it apart from traditional intelligence agencies with less of an appetite for risk and legal hurdles.
Hezbollah and other Iranian terrorist proxies have struggled to respond to Israel's attacks over the last two weeks, beginning with the pager attacks widely attributed to Israel, and culminating in the killing of Hezbollah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
on Friday night.
Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels fired a third ballistic missile at Israel on Saturday, which was downed. Other rockets and missiles were fired from Lebanon, and were either intercepted or landed without causing damage.
Shiite militias in Iraq, which are also controlled by Iran, fired a drone toward the southern Israeli port city of Eilat.
Israel's objective in a ground mission would be to push Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon, north of the Litani River, in accordance with United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
Security Council Resolution 1701 of 2006. U.S.