Conflicts of Interest: Will Israel Invade Lebanon?

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1. Israel will invade Lebanon. Where in the Middle East will Israel not invade? Israel dropped white phosphorus on populated areas and it's causing respiratory problems and damaging the environment.
   It's not good enough for Netanyahu that he is bombing the hell out of Gaza so he'll start bombing the hell out of Lebanon and expand the bombing to other places.

   1. The result, I dread, is that Hezbollah hits ammonia and chlorine plants in Israel. It is a possibility. On Judging Freedom, with Judge Napolitano, Max Blumenthal told him about a drone mission by Hezbollah, which went over critical areas in Israel, recording nine minutes of video. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-warns-hezbollah-of-potential-war-after-drone-video-release/ar-BB1ow4c7?ocid=BingNewsSerp

2. Another pointless question. Israel doesn't have any choice if it wants to survive. It has to bring the US into this otherwise it loses both the Gaza war and the Hezbollah war, nor will it achieve its and the neocons' aim of destroying Iran. The only way to bring the US is is to attack Hezbollah and demonstrate that it can't defeat Hezbollah by itself.

   The Israeli government is acting like a "suicide by cop" lunatic, going for broke because they can see no future unless they can convince the US to save them. Or at least Netanyahu is thinking that way because otherwise he goes to jail. People in his position have nothing to lose.

   And the other crazies in both the US and Israeli governments are simply ignorant, irrational psychopaths with no perception of reality. They really believe they can prevail.

   There's no other explanation, but very few people are capable of believing it. There is massive cognitive dissonance going on in most of the so-called "pundits" and virtually the entire US population.

   1. IDF vs Hezbollah fighters on the ground would not be good for Israel. Without the air support, the IDF has real problems going head to head.

3. Meanwhile, Martyanov dumps on Doug Bandow. LOL
   https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/06/in-related-news.html

   Reaganism is the same type of mental illness as is exceptionalism, so Doug Bandow continues to live in the illusionary world that if you somehow define "victory" you may get some sort of favorable result:

   "The allies should lay the groundwork for negotiations today, when Ukraine’s position is strongest. It is still possible to preserve that nation’s independence and sovereignty, while accepting military restrictions and territorial losses. How much would depend on talks. Washington and Brussels should discuss possible economic and security arrangements with Moscow. For example, Ukraine could be nonaligned militarily—with Russia assured that it would not face a hostile state allied with America on its border—but still free to form economic and political ties with Europe. If Russia makes peace, it could be free to reengage economically and politically with the West. The allies could offer the return of frozen funds and property to Moscow and individual Russians."

   What Bandow doesn't understand is that Putin's "offer" was peremptory and that the West far from having a strategy–it is an unknown thing in Washington–missed completely, as is ALWAYS the case in the US–in fact, I think they teach that in USMA at West Point and in War Colleges–the nature of the conflict. Few people who do grasp this nature, they usually do not go far in Washington. So, wishful thinking is not a strategy and for Bandow, if he still didn't understand the issue–Russia is at war with combined West and she will not stop now until Western hegemony is over.

4. Israel will not lose. Why?
   'cause
   It will entrain the USA. It owns US government.
   Failing that, Israel will use nukes.

   1. It will probably happen.

   2. Nuking South Lebanon also destroys northern Israel…!

      1. How far would the radioactive cloud be carried by winds?

      2. Just think of it as a large scale implementation of the Hannibal directive. Plus I am sure they have neutron bombs just for such "occasions".

5. WWI, WWII…WWIII?…

6. Choose Peace and be chosen, or be lost forever, again and again…

7. Like I said: Even some Israelis see an attack on Hezbollah as "mass suicide":
   Former Ombudsman Warns Netanyahu: ‘Israel’ Attack on Hezbollah Will Be Mass Suicide
   https://english.almanar.com.lb/2137258

8. Conflicts of Interest: Will Israel Invade Lebanon?

   Actually Hezbollah wants Israel to fall into trap and invade…!

   1. It is possible that Hezbollah had prepared for it for years. Hezbollah may have learned quite a bit from the 1982 bombing and invasion of Lebanon.

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