Paul Nuki – The Telegraph Aug 25, 2024
Not since Yom Kippur in 1973 has the Middle East been so close to all out war.
That conflict, also known as the Ramadan War, raged for 19 days between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. It claimed up to 20,000 lives, including some 2,500 Israeli soldiers. Many thousands more on both sides were maimed and injured.
It is a reminder of what is at stake today after the biggest exchange of fire on the Israel-Lebanon border.
Exactly what happened in the early hours of Sunday morning remains obscured by the fog of war and the desperate need for both sides to establish deterrence through strength – real and perceived.
Israel says it moved first and pre-emptively after detecting Iranian-backed Hezbollah was poised to launch a major strike in revenge for the assassination of Fuad Shukr, one of its most senior commanders, in Beirut on July 31.
Rear-Adml Daniel Hagari, Israel’s military spokesman, said 100 Israeli jets had hit 40 sites in southern Lebanon, destroying thousands of rocket launchers that were primed for use against Israel.
Hezbollah said Israel’s defences had failed and implied that it had successfully hit 11 Israeli sites including a “special military target” in central Israel in an attack involving more than 320 Katyusha rockets and a “large number” of drones.
“The enemy’s claims about the pre-emptive action it carried out, the targets it struck and its disruption of the resistance’s [Hezbollah] attack are empty,” said the group in a statement.
The attack was just the “first phase” of its retribution for Israel’s killing of Shukr, it added, suggesting that may follow.
Whether or not the latest exchange can be contained is likely to be determined by the actions and diplomacy of the US and Iran.
Both say they want to avoid a regional war and both have considerable influence over the two sides but do not control them.
Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, called his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant on Sunday morning to stress “the importance of avoiding regional escalation”.
In response, Israel said it was not looking for a wider war but added that its “defence establishment is determined to defend the citizens of Israel and will use all the means at its disposal to remove imminent threats”.
Likewise Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s new foreign minister, called for dialogue to resolve bilateral issues in a call with the EU’s top diplomat on Thursday.
“In our foreign policy, it is our responsibility to minimise the costs of the [US] aggression to the greatest extent possible,” he said, indicating a desire in Terahn to lower tensions in the region.
Another positive – although a faint one – was that the Gaza ceasefire and hostage talks were continuing in Cairo on Sunday.
Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader in Lebanon, was set to address the latest developments in a televised speech at 4pm UK time on Sunday – perhaps providing greater clarity on the group’s intentions.
The hope will be that Nasrallah, who is close to Iran, claims success in Hezbollah’s overnight actions and stands down his fighters, saying that honour has been restored.
Whether or not that would be enough for Israel, only time will tell.
Since the start of the war on Oct 7, Israel has had to evacuate 60,000 to 80,000 people from an area of some 650 square kilometres along the Lebanon border – about 3 per cent of its total land mass – because of Hezbollah’s rockets.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said on Sunday: “We are determined to do everything to protect our country, return the residents of the north safely to their homes and continue to uphold a simple rule: whoever hurts us – we hurt them.”
Iran has to do something….the big war should start as the illegitimate Harris-Biden Junta leaves Office…BRICS switching away fm the dollar in Oct. Gas prices going to $9/gal. Economy tanking…Zelensky’s regime crashing as well….the worst thing at this point would be the status quo….People should be deposing people like Starmer, Macron & Baerbock in the most brutal way possible…Germany watched the US/UK destroy their cheap gas pipeline & they had the same reaction as when a German is raped by an African or ME “migrant”; a shrug & a “we deserve it ” expression on their face…”oh please Mistress don’t whip any more ” says Cuck Germany to Liz Truss.
I don’t believe Israel would know where 100 rocket sites were situated. This is just more carpet-bombing. It fits the usual Zionist false claims of if we hit it then there was an enemy position there–like they do when they flatten schools and hospitals to kill the people sheltering there.
nutyahoo genocidal talmud evil leader it is not you country, you are an imposter and occupier of the Palestinian land. Live in peace if you want to live in Palestine otherwise move on to where you – nomad tribes originated from which are Turkey, Sogdians lands and a few others in the near vicinities.
nutyahoo stop attempting to get Iran involved in you genocidal war. Iranians are superb people, peaceful, hard working and they certainly do not take over other peoples lands and plunder all from other countries. Stop the indoctrination of your tribe with historical lies and deceptions. You will go down in history as the worse criminal in the history of mankind.
Nuttyahoo:
Trump’s bathhouse buddy.
That about sums up the truth.
Like all demonic beings from Hell, Israel hates what is good.
Everything and every one who the israelis attack are good and of God.
The jews are the synagogue of Satan.
They want to kill amalak, all those who are good and of God.
They are born psychopaths, who are cruel and inhuman demons without souls.
They have sadistic personality disorder and hate everything and every one who is good and of God.
They exist to bring Hell to this earth through endless wars.
That is how Hell was created, via endless wars in the first place.
You are following in the same footsteps as the originators of HEll, in turning this earth into a Hell. You must Stop all wars now and use the final and only sane soulution to the jewish problem: they are here to start endless wars in order to merge earth with the original Hell they created a long time ago on another earth, one they used for endelss wars that eventually became the first and original Hell of the fallen angels who are the gods and creators of the synagogue of satan=Israel the antichrist people. You are being put to the final test.
Do you really rationally believe that serving the devil, the enmies of God the jews is pleasing to God??? Are you insane??? Stop or you will destroy your own souls by serving the devils the jews.
Earth will merge with Hell if you continue.
You will see it coming in the sky during ww3, it is horrible, several times larger than earth. It will envelope eartch if there is a 3rd World war.
It is ice cold and burns with a fire that cannot be put out.
It is made of plasma and is the collective consciousness of all those who lost their souls and ended up in Hell.
You will feel the energy there which is life killing=souls killing energy and run and hide from it. But it will take all the evil ones who abandoned God and serve the devil=jews.
“..all-out war” sounds quite snappy, but it soon gets very boring and slow, trying to do some better manufacturing and supplying, and pretending it’s real
NUTENJAHU take your Chabad + other Talmudists
with you in hell , home of JHWH !
The north of Israel is unoccupied and will probably never again be. Israel seeks strikes in Lebanon but blah blah the incursion has already happened. Israel reaches where its hands get cut off. Not only the supremacists of the human race but the biggest Richard craniums as well.