Fellow bloggers, do you ever feel like you are spinning your wheels……I do too….but I refuse to let my guard down and succumb to the feelings of inadequacy……I do the research so my readers do not and I try to keep them informed on how and where the next big bang will occur……..sorry had to get that off my chest…..now onwards and upwards!
I was asked the other day by a friend who knows that I keep up with the Middle East religiously…..do you think Israel is finished now? I mean they have a tenuous ceasefire and all is quiet, as quiet as it gets on their southern border…….what could they possibly need to do more?
My personal opinion is that Israel is not through with armed conflict….not just yet. They are finished with Gaza for they accomplished what they intended….to totally destroy the infrastructure……the tunnel crap was just that …..total crap!
If they are not finished but are finished with Gaza, for now…..where will they hit next?
Think Lebanon and Hezbollah.
I listen to a report from Israel’s channel 2………..
The report, for which the army gave Israel’s Channel 2 access to several of its positions along the border with Lebanon, featured an IDF brigade commander warning that such a conflict “will be a whole different story” from the Israel-Hamas conflict in which over 2,000 Gazans (half of them gunmen according to Israel) and 72 Israelis were killed. “We will have to use considerable force” to quickly prevail over the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, “to act more decisively, more drastically,” said Colonel Dan Goldfus, commander of the 769th Hiram Infantry Brigade.
The report said Hezbollah has an estimated 100,000 rockets — 10 times as many as were in the Hamas arsenal — and that its 5,000 long-range missiles, located in Beirut and other areas deep inside Lebanon, are capable of carrying large warheads (of up to 1 ton and more), with precision guidance systems, covering all of Israel.
Israel is catching grief from all over the world for the death and destruction in Gaza…..and they will go to southern Lebanon for, right now, they have little to lose. Hezbollah is as much a pain in Israel’s butt as Hamas…..I cannot imagine that they, Israel, will let those rockets and such go for too long.
BiBi will need something to sure up his supports so that he can keep his power trip…….his latest okay of the theft of Palestinian land for settlements is his way of pacifying the right wing extremists………any Gaza investigation will lessen some of his support…..he will need a new “enemy” that is about to destroy Israel…..and Hezbollah fits that bill perfectly.
Of course they are not finished! Israelis are famous, or infamous depending on your point of view, for brutality and destruction…..from Moses until today…….not much has changed with completion of their Gaza campaign.
Just wait for it………..