1y ago

Israel ready for ‘all-out war’ in Lebanon

www.aljazeera.com

The Israeli military says its Northern Command has approved operational plans for war with Lebanon.

Israel is ready for an “all-out war” in Lebanon and has plans approved for an offensive targeting Hezbollah, officials have said.

Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in border fighting since shortly after the start of the war on Gaza, following the October 7 attacks on Israel. The confrontation is increasingly expanding, with both sides saying they are ready to go to war.

More than 400 people have been killed in Lebanon, including journalists and paramedics, over the past eight months, with 25 deaths in Israel. At least 90,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon, and more than 60,000 have been forced from their homes in northern Israel.

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That's because Netanyahu needs a forever war to keep his dictatorship. That's always what this has been about.
- Forever wars only work against enemies that can't really do anything back.
  Israel is about to enter the 'find out' stage.
  
  They will end up finding out that the US will absolutely have their back despite the genocide of Palestinians so that the US can keep their middle east ally. You know, like that one asshole who always starts fights because their big friends help out when they start getting their ass kicked.
  
  I'm curious what you mean. Hasn't Hezbollah been targeting Israel for decades? There's already been the South Lebanon Conflict and the 2008 Lebanon War.
  What will they find out that they didn't already know?
  
  Who exactly are they going to fight that's going to make them find out? The only powers in the region that are threat to them are Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. None of which they're going to fight.
- That’s always what this has been about.
  I would add Zionist settler colonialism in the mix
- You are definitely correct. I don’t understand why these border countries and messing with a clearly deranged man. He’s just looking for an excuse.
- Yes? And?
- This seems inconsistent with previous overwhelming thought that Israel wants to kill Palestine completely. Killing that many people that fast (in a course of just a few months) would not let it last for too long in the end.
  Also, is there evidence of Israel being a dictatorship? Is there an opposition that is being threatened or killed or something?
  
  Sure, just ask Netanyahu's former best friend:
  https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-798324
Israel continues to get worse and worse.
- If someone could just figure out a way to point them at Russia, rather than picking fights with everyone else.
  
  Well, russia be shipping muslims to Belarus like there is no tomorrow. Maybe tell Benny there is a lot of muslims in Belarus and they are coming from russia?
- Israel gets worse and worse....defending themselves.
  
  From the people they're colonizing. That doesn't count as defending themselves. I can't say self-defense when I kill you after you try to punch me because I shot you multiple times.
  
  The down votes are from the Jews who get offended easily and are first to say you are antisemitic. Sometimes a "/s" is not enough.
next up, invade random countries... don't mind me I'm just going through Hitler's to-do list.
- Doing a Blitzkreg to win some Lebensraum and no I don't understand why this would be problematic.
  
  The Südetenland is already waiting to be liberated and fulfill their genetic destiny!
  
  These propaganda memes are getting more and more bizarre. This is the "Promised Land" meme that from I can tell originated from a faked photo of a patch on an Israeli soldier a few weeks ago.
  Israel simply doesn't have the capability to take that amount of territory, much less hold it. And see that blue on the Sinai peninsula? Israel actually controlled that in the past. They returned it to Egypt when they made peace in the 70s.
  This is the silliest anti-Israel meme yet. Try harder next time.
- The Nazi ideology is alive and rules in Tel Aviv. They just changed who the supreme race is.
- Doesn’t Lebanon shoot rockets at Israel? Like pretty frequently?
  
  Yeah, while Israel has been invading and violating Lebanon's airspace for much longer than they've been shooting rockets.
  
  You can't really think of Lebanon as a country at this time. It's a territory where several groups hold various amounts of power. Hzbollah is one of those groups. The "government", or what passes for it is another.
They're doing the whole Nazi Germany playbook now
A two front war is never a good idea
- A two front war is never a good idea
  Not too sure tho, how bombing and starving civilians including children on a strip of land for 8-9 months qualifies as war, now that I think about it.
  
  Fake news refuses to use the proper term...
  
  They should never have done it in the first place, but seeing how it takes them so long to kill mostly unarmed civilians doesn't exactly qualify them to attack another region, but whatever gets bibi to play the victim and the strong man at the same time and keeps his right wing friends happy, i guess.
- No, now they're going to actually go to war instead of bombing defenseless children. The other front would be Egypt if Sisi hadn't sold his soul to Uncle Sam.
Can we please stop giving this insane bloodthirsty man and his sidekicks weapons and intelligence support?
Actual headline: America is ready for an all out war with Lebanon
- US has been trying to prevent an Israeli-Hezbollah war. Even al Jazeera says this in the third sentence in the linked article.
  
  nonsense. Israel does everything with American weapons. US wants more war, otherwise they would not be giving Israel so many weapons.
  
  I'm sure al Jazeera would have said the US has been trying to prevent an Israeli-Palestine war before the conflict happened. We can see what happened with that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Syria%E2%80%93Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_coalition
If the US joins Israel, that pulls in Russia, Iran, Syria, Iraq, and since Russia and NK just did their deal. Likely NK as well.
AIPAC has bought off enough of both sides of the aisle, that our politicians will say we join.
This ain't the same WW3 shit we've been hearing about since the 50s. This shit can pop off at any moment.
Israel isn't acting rationally and Biden has repeatedly said he will support them under any possible circumstances. So what the fuck is going to happen?
Getting the bighead from all the big US funds they have to play with
- Totally worth not having health care so we can support Israel starting wars around the Middle East.
  -_-
Seriously, what tf are they thinking?
- Israel is thinking they can start any war they want because the U.S. will make sure they win. Netanyahu has repeatedly shown that the U.S. will do whatever he demands.
Israel: History repeats itself, it has been a quite 100 years, time for another of those great wars, World War, I think ot was called.
- The war to end all wars, they called it
Israel isn't going to stop are they?
- Why should they stop? They have the full U.S. M.I.C. to back them in whatever bullshit they want to do. If they can commit genocide with U.S. backing, then of course they can start wars with neighbors too.
  We need to end our bizarre, expensive one-sided relationship with Israel. We get absolutely nothing out of it except headaches.
Oh great. That will help with everything.
Right now it's just some tough talk from both sides. It's possible for this to amount to something more than the normal levels of exchanging fire that's been going on since October 7, but it's doubtful.
Seems more likely Nasrallah just has to make some token effort to support Hamas to appease the rank and file. So he threatened Israel three days ago. Israel makes threats back now. Just another day in the Middle East.
- Right now it’s just some tough talk from both sides
  How do you know that? The Zionist settler colonialist side has been doing Genocide for the past 8-9 months, this is not as you say
  Just another day in the Middle East.
  And like Hitler, Netanyahu is unable to stop. And unlike Hitler he is not fighting and loosing battles. When Hitler started loosing in the front, part of his entourage tried to talk him out of it, without success. This is why, there was even an attempt to kill him from inside the Nazi party.
  Netanyahu on the other hand, is not loosing battles since he is just bombing and starving people, while being supported in all possible ways by the US and most of the west. Why should he stop now? The Zionist plan of eliminating or displacing all Palestinians is working fine so far.
  Netanyahu is so pumped up he could easily invade Lebanon. Also Israel has attacked Lebanon twice and got defeated twice in a humiliating way. Last time was in 2006, meaning not that long ago. This is why Netanyahu has such a beef with Hezbollah. I'm afraid that Netanyahu has been given so much support and leverage from the West, he's about to start an actual war with Lebanon.
  
  Another day, another thing for you to rage over, right? Gotta maintain that outrage or you might think about how horrible Hamas is.
- Israel has never stopped killing people in Lebanon.
Israel will no stop untill every non-Jew is dead.
https://youtu.be/Q1Iw2fm58FY?si=ULyzTxsByUWbv-cU
https://youtu.be/a4t_4S1h4Zg?si=0rgDPudXeeImNL18
https://youtu.be/kAfIYtpcBxo?si=vL_EVezwQpyrnHP3
https://youtu.be/ymCaO45Zxo0?si=Kg_4CtSwiQfHHu16
Unreal level of pandering rage bait.
No shit they have plans for all out war with Lebanon. America has plans for all our war with Canada.
- America has plans for all our war with Canada.
  maybe the White House burning down again would be a little humbling, who knows

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