US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Prime Minister Natayahu attend an Israeli war cabinet meeting on Monday
Barak Ravid – Axios Oct 17, 2023
The White House has been discussing the possibility of using military force if Hezbollah joins the war in Gaza and attacks Israel with its huge arsenal of rockets, three U.S. officials and one Israeli official with knowledge of the situation tell Axios.
Why it matters: Lebanon-based Hezbollah joining the war would dramatically escalate the Middle East’s worst conflict in decades — raising the likelihood of mass civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon and possibly drawing in the U.S.
- The Israeli military — now focused mostly on Gaza — would have a significantly more difficult time fighting on two fronts simultaneously while missiles rain down on its bases and Israel’s population centers.
State of play: Since the Gaza war began Oct. 7, tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have been increasing, with daily skirmishes between the parties along the Israel-Lebanon border.
- Iran-backed Hezbollah has fired rockets and anti-tank missiles at Israeli outposts and forces on the border in recent days, while Israeli airstrikes have hit Hezbollah positions. Several Hezbollah operatives and several IDF soldiers have been killed.
- At the same time, both sides have managed to keep the exchange of fire on a relatively low level, avoiding all-out fighting.
- Hezbollah so far has refrained from sending its operatives for a ground assault or from firing its long-range, accurate missiles at Israeli targets.
Driving the news: Since the Gaza war began, the Biden administration has sent public and private messages to Hezbollah and Iran through third parties, warning them not to intervene in the war.
- One of the U.S. officials said the response the Biden administration received from Iran and Hezbollah through intermediaries was that while they don’t want an escalation, they might have to intervene if Israel continues its military operation in Gaza.
- The Biden administration followed these messages by sending two aircraft carriers and several other war ships to the eastern Mediterranean, and put more forces on alert for a possible deployment to the region.
- Biden’s trip to Israel this week is designed partly to show U.S. support for Israel — and reflect the administration’s concern about Hezbollah opening a second front in the Gaza war.
Two U.S. officials said Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Arab leaders in the region, with whom he’d met in recent days, that the U.S. “is not fooling around” by sending so many military assets to the region in support of Israel.
- The scenario of using U.S. military force if Hezbollah were to join the war has come up in several White House meetings in recent days, the officials said. They added that any decision to use force would be made according to the scope of a Hezbollah attack and Israel’s ability to respond.
- The two U.S. officials stressed the administration is doing all it can to keep Hezbollah out of the war — but also is preparing for the opposite scenario.
- The White House declined to comment.
Behind the scenes: In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, President Biden expressed concern about the war expanding along the Israeli-Lebanese border, U.S. and Israeli officials said.
- The officials said Biden asked Netanyahu to keep the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) operations in Lebanon as restraint as possible and warned of a possible miscalculation that could lead to a serious escalation with Hezbollah.
What they’re saying: “President Biden — with his public messages, with his private messages to Iran and Hezbollah and with the practical steps he took — made it clear to our enemies that if they think of joining the attack against Israel there will be American involvement and Israel will not be on its own,” Israeli national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said at a news conference Tuesday.
Between the lines: One of the legal justifications for the U.S. using force in case of a Hezbollah attack would be to protect tens of thousands of American citizens who live in Israel, said Jonathan Lord of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
- “Under commonly held understandings of Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the president can enter U.S. forces into hostilities to protect Americans abroad,” Lord said.
- He added that if Biden were to make that decision, he’d need to notify Congress within 48 hours under the War Powers Resolution of 1973. That would give Biden 60 days to act before Congress’ approval to use military force would be required.
They choose to follow the law when they want and break it when they want.
Interesting! Protecting their citizens. That’s the same rational Russia used for entering Ukraine.
Looking at that photo at the top one can’t help but wonder where are a couple of right-thinking actual human beings with flame-throwers and machine guns when you really need them to help remove that smear of demonic shit-stains on the fabric of humanity?
CIA-Mossad = Hezbollah
Remember, the retarded white Christian West fought & won a war (WWII) for these Jewish ghouls & Semitic scum to rule the world.
Biden and Bibi- 2 pees in a pod.
Photo caption:
“Bibi and Blinken on their way to the bathhouse”🤣
Eichmann (NX)–YES, WE KNOW, BECAUSE YOU TELL US 200 times a year (caps error) because it is a falsehood and you are a satanist , thinking bad is good and not knowing which is which in the first place
WHAT IS STEAMING ?
I often listen to Black radionot intentionally but next door has it on so loud the street hears it
and i so object to Black gang leaders talking about their beleifs
The Co op Wilco Tricer and is just 3 big business who are closing London shops
due to ” steaming ” this is when 10 or 20 black youth go into a shop
use distraction tactics and run out with as much stock as they can carry
this is rife across the capital and to be told black gang leaders have had talks with government ministers about stopping the migrant gangs coming in to avoid a massive turf war with them
makes the mind boggle.
They talk about huge coming riots unles the government stops importing in more criminal gangs
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1795772/co-op-crime-shoplifting-looting-incidents
6 Chinese warships moving to med. sea., being Russia’s Kinzal on standby and the bilateral security agreement between Iran and the Chinese has poured cold ice on bloodthirsty Zionist warmongers. These tugs only could back off when faced with challenging forces that could give them bloody noses.
they lock down the planet except for Belarus with bogus plandemic. the humanitarian concern is only an excuse.” chosen to be in hell” never act with decency to ward goyim.
Pity poor Ukraine, they are being forgotten:
https://ibb.co/R9hvwzh
do you remember the Maui HOLOCAUST?
do you remember the Afghanistan collapse and pullout?
In a few weeks the hospital bombing WILL BE FORGOTTEN for the new outrage
they are no americans living in israhell . they are
jews with double passport , what was invented
by jews to corrupt the states like their gendershit,
communism, globalism, capitalism, feminism etc .
@Hamish
You need to solve a problem quite close to home. It sounds you are under siege. I suggest diplomacy in the first instance then tit for tat noise. Say loud at 3am for example. You might need a bit of both, but you have to decide whether the quality of your life could get worse than constantly being subject to noise pollution. “To be or not to be that is the question”.
There is something of defensive worth: “white noise”. Look into that. Basically is it a way of producing a constant background noise that masks the other sounds. After a while the “white noise” generator establishes itself as your baseline with which to go about your day to day life. YouTube give white noises videos. They can of course be channelled through speakers.
Meanwhile once in the secret cabinet meeting in the Knesset, Prime Minster Natanyahu opens the meeting saying:
Prime Minister: “Let us say our ‘Amens’ to Rabbi Meir Kahane reciting the sacred verses of success and prosperity from the Talmud which have enabled us to rise so high above all the goyim, and to take all that has been promised to us by God as his chosen people”.
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Sanhedrin verse 59a – Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “ Abodah Zara verse 26b – Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “ Schabouth Hag. verse 6d – Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Hilkkoth Akum X1 – Do not save Goyim in danger of death.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Hilkkoth Akum X1 – Show no mercy to the Goyim.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Choschen Hamm chapter 388, verse15 – If it can be proven that someone has given
the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia verse 17 – A Jew should and must
make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Baba Necia chapter 114, verse 6 – The Jews are human beings, but the nations of
the world are not human beings but beasts.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Simeon Haddarsen, folio 56-D – When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Nidrasch Talpioth, page. 225-L – Jehovah created the non-Jew in human
form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Aboda Sarah 37a – A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5 – If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is not responsible.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388 – It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348 – All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”
Rabbi: “Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5 – How to interpret the word ‘robbery.’ A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is not forbidden to do all this to a goy.”
Cabinet: “Amen!”