With little in the way of territorial gains in southern Lebanon the IDF has been fought to a standstill. So Netanyahu had few other options. The question is, how will Hard-line ZionistS react and will the IDF now redouble its offensive in Gaza?
The wars in Gaza and southern Lebanon are taking a toll on the Israeli Army and not just in deaths and injuries. Low morale, mental health problems and a growing number of suicides are all manifest. Together with what Yossi Melman, intelligence correspondent for Haaretz, describes as the “moral decay and disintegration of Israel’s social cohesion.”
It has received almost no media coverage but a massive blast has been reported at LS59, an Israeli military airbase that hosts reconnaissance drones and attack helicopters used in southern Lebanon
The Zionist hardliners won’t like this. After a year of fighting, and having advanced no more than a couple of miles into southern Lebanon, it will amount to an admission of defeat. While for Hezbollah, despite having lost thousands including much of its leadership, it will be a bitter victory
Hezbollah is stepping up its attacks in response to Israelis air strikes on Lebanon
IDF casualties mount after Hezbollah target gatherings of Israeli troops in the occupied territories with rocket salvos and drones
Around 33 percent of males ordered to enlist have failed to show up at recruitment offices in Israel in recent years
In the guise of combating “anti-Semitism”, new legislation is on the cards in the U.S., which is intended to silence critics of Israeli crimes in Gaza and Lebanon,
From the start Israel’s objective has been to ethnically cleanse Gaza. To achieve this the IDF has deliberately targeted the civil infrastructure upon which Palestinians depend
Israeli air strikes collapse an eight-story building in central Beirut. While elsewhere a hospital director and six health workers are killed and UN peacekeepers are injured
In a significant new development, Hezbollah missiles have struck Israel’s Hatzerim air base, located 150 kilometres from Israel’s border with Lebanon. Hosting most of Israel’s aerial reconnaissance and strike units the air base was struck with accuracy and precision. Meaning that nowhere in Israelis safe from Hezollah missiles
We are like children trapped in a mental prison forbidden to name the malady that ails us.