David Martin, Margaret Brennan – CBS News June 14, 2024
A Burkan rocket launched by Hezbollah explodes next to an IDF post on the Israel/Lebanon border. Click to enlarge
A barrage of missiles this week exchanged between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon have made U.S. officials increasingly concerned that the escalation could spiral the war-torn region into a broader conflict between the U.S. ally and Iranian-backed militia.
Since Oct. 7, the Biden administration has been furiously working behind the scenes to lower the chances of a conflagration that could draw in the U.S. or put at further risk U.S. troops who are in the region in Syria, Iraq and Jordan. Amos Hochstein, a top diplomatic adviser to President Biden, is headed to Israel Monday to work on de-escalating the conflict, according to a U.S. official.
U.S. officials expressed concern about several scenarios. Some told CBS News they interpret the recent deeper strikes by Israel inside of Lebanese territory as preparing the battlefield for a sweeping assault by Israel Defense Forces. Hezbollah has responded by launching larger rocket attacks into Israel. These officials are increasingly concerned that Israel will start a war against Hezbollah in Lebanon that it cannot finish without American support.
Other U.S. officials tell CBS that their apprehension is focused on Hezbollah and described a scenario in which the volume of the rocket strikes into Israel could result in unintended consequences that trigger an event Israel feels compelled to respond to and which could then result in an unintended war.
Inside Israel, the Hezbollah threat has become a potent political issue because many Israelis who evacuated their homes in the north of the country remain displaced. Following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas in Israel and the launch of the war in Gaza, many residents of northern Israel and southern Lebanon left their homes out of concern that they were living in an area that could soon become a battlefield.
The increased tit-for-tat cross border exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah make it harder for the U.S. to ease tensions in the region, particularly if the Biden administration’s efforts to broker a hostage and cease-fire deal in Gaza founder. The administration views the cease-fire talks and the Israel-Hezbollah tensions as intertwined.
A senior Biden administration official told reporters in Italy Thursday, “The most important thing about the hostage release and cease-fire deal that’s on the table now is that if it’s achieved, it can have an impact in the north [of Israel], so that is an opportunity for us to be able to bring this conflict to a full close.”
The official also said that as a part of any cease-fire deal, there must be “specific arrangements in Lebanon on the border.”
“There has to be an agreement that allows Israelis to return to their homes in the north with security guarantees that it is not Oct. 6 of Hezbollah … sitting right on the blue line.”
The recent Israeli strike that targeted and killed commander Taleb Abdullah, one of the highest-ranking members of Hezbollah, has triggered reprisals. Public events mourning Abdullah are expected in the coming days.
Unlike the surprise attack by Hamas in October, a possible war with Hezbollah in Lebanon is something the Israeli military has been gaming out for years, according to U.S. officials.
Israeli troops in the northern command are training in brigade-sized units but are not yet in position to begin an assault, a U.S. official said.
Starting a war in Lebanon that they (Israel) cannot finish without US support is code for the Jews stampeding their American cattle into the Middle East again to destroy countries on behalf of Israel.
Bullshit! 80 yrs and these cruel, ethno-Supremacists STILL can’t support & defend themselves! “Right to exist” my ass! This is nothing but an international crime syndicate hide-out masquerading as a country..IF the US jumps in any further then everyone else in the ME should send everything they have at Tel Aviv, Haifa, Dimona…just light these bitches up…Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey are the only countries with balls…we’ll see..but I am sick of Israel…payback for the USS Liberty & 9-11 are coming.
Imposters and occupiers of Palestine get out, it is not your country you are ungrateful nomads who cause trouble everywhere you go. Just remember you are the evil tribes from Turkey, Sogdians countries. You are gypsies but unlike the ones from Hungary who are like reptiles without a heart and soul. One of these days Palestine will be free of the evil talmudic ones.
Oct 7 was a hoax, similar to Sandy Hook or 9/11. No Jews died/no Hamas parachutists/no ‘hostages’). No 35,000 dead Palestinians either. Welcome to 1984 news. People will believe anything they see on TV or on their pornophone. Hezbollah like Alqaeda/Isis/Hamas is a Mossad-KGB-CIA created fictitious muslim terror org, based on ‘the brotherhood’ from 1984–providing the smokescreen/pretext for the Commie State/Jews to advance their religious/geopolitical & demographic goals.
“Since Oct. 7, the Biden administration has been furiously working to lower the chances of a conflagration that could draw in the U.S. or put at further risk U.S. troops who are in the region in Syria, Iraq and Jordan.” HAHAHA yeah, sure. The only hing the Bribem administration has been working on has been following Shlomo’s orders for the destruction of the “United States”. And any and all “U.S. troops” in Syria, Iraq, and/or Jordan have no f*cking business being there and deserve whatever violent end comes their way.
“Amos Hochstein, a top diplomatic adviser to President Biden, is headed to Israel Monday to work on de-escalating the conflict” … Hochstein, eh? HAHAHA Only an imbecile with the cognitive ability of a rotting cabbage could believe a Jew is going to DE-escalate anything, as they are literally hellbent on DEgradation and DEstruction of bloody everything.
“Israelis who evacuated their homes in the north of the country remain displaced” … The only unfortunate thing with that is they weren’t incinerated before they could evacuate.
Israhell has been “preparing the battlefield for a sweeping assault by Israel Defense Forces” into Lebanon, eh? And then they will have to sweep up the body parts of the IDF and the shit trail the survivors left behind as they high-tailed it back to Israhell as Hezbollah would eat the IDF’s f*cking lunch once again.
“Unlike the surprise attack by Hamas in October” … Oh f*ck right off and die already. Only the dangerously stupid would believe that. Of course, the Jewnited States and Jew-K are chock-full of dangerously stupid dumb-f*cks, so…..
And here’s a real doozy: “U.S. officials increasingly concerned that the escalation could spiral the war-torn region into a broader conflict between the U.S. ally” … U.S. ally, huh? Israel?!? The 800 pound hook-nosed yarmulke-wearing rabid gorilla in the room that few outside of us here wants to recognize is anyone who isn’t literally mentally retarded should be able to clearly see that Israel is, and has been, the most sinister enemy of the cuntry. Forget about the USS Liberty and all the spying and subversion and blackmail and degradation and wholesale looting, it is stunningly obvious Jews and Israhell played the major part in 9/11, aided and abetted by some satanic traitors in the Jewnited States, of course. By all rights, Israhell should have been nuked into a smouldering glowing glass wasteland on September 12, 2001. But, no, quite the opposite happened, and we are f*cking doomed because of it.
when does nico get his own column?
lets hope US army gets involved to get
another second Beirut desaster !
dont forget : behind every suicide bomber
hides a jew !