Barak Ravid – Axios Sept 16, 2024
Netanyahu meets with Defence Minister Gallant (c) and military chiefs at IDF HQ in Tel Aviv on Oct 8 2023. Click to enlarge
A senior Biden adviser, Amos Hochstein, cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday against initiating a wider war against Lebanon, three sources familiar with the meetings told Axios.
Why it matters: Hochstein’s message came as the Israeli military and security cabinet have been ramping up preparations for a war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which they hope would allow tens of thousands of displaced Israelis to return home.
Driving the news: Exchanges of fire on the Israel-Lebanon border, which started when Hezbollah attacked Israel on Oct. 8, have been consistently escalating.
- Israeli and U.S. officials hoped a hostage and ceasefire deal in Gaza would calm down the northern border, too. But in the absence of such a deal, the fear of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah has significantly increased over the last two weeks.
- The Israeli security cabinet voted on Tuesday to update the goals of the nearly yearlong war to include the safe return of displaced Israelis to their homes on the border with Lebanon. “Israel will continue to act to implement this goal,” the Prime Minister’s office said.
State of play: Hochstein landed right in the middle of a political crisis in Israel. Netanyahu is considering whether to fire defense minister Yoav Gallant, who has been a key partner to the Biden administration.
- Netanyahu has wanted to fire Gallant for months over their bad personal relations and deep policy disagreements, and has been looking for a good timing to do it.
- According to Israeli press reports, Netanyahu has been secretly negotiating in recent days with one of his staunchest political rivals, former minister Gideon Saar, to replace Gallant.
- Ultra-Orthodox parties have threatened to topple Netanyahu’s coalition if he doesn’t pass a bill the exempts Yeshiva students from military service. Gallant opposes that bill.
- A U.S. official told me “it would be crazy” of Netanyahu to fire an experienced minister of defense like Gallant amid a war in Gaza and as Israel might be heading towards a possible all out war in Lebanon
Behind the scenes: Two sources familiar with Hoschtein’s meetings said the U.S. envoy emphasized to Netanyahu and Gallant that the U.S. does not believe a broader conflict in Lebanon will achieve the goal of returning displaced Israelis to their homes in the north.
- Hochstein said an all-out war with Hezbollah risks a much broader and protracted regional conflict, the sources said.
The U.S. envoy made clear to Netanyahu and Gallant that the U.S. remains committed to a diplomatic resolution in Lebanon, “either together with a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal or on its own,” the sources said.
The other side: Netanyahu told Hochstein that it would not be possible to return displaced Israelis to their homes without a fundamental change in the security situation on the border with Lebanon, according to the Prime Minister’s office.
- “Israel appreciates and respects the support of the Biden administration, but in the end it will do what is necessary to maintain its security and return the residents of the north to their homes safely,” Netanyahu told Hochstein, according to a statement.
- Gallant told Hochstein that the possibility of a diplomatic solution to the situation on the northern border “has passed because Hezbollah continues to tie itself to Hamas and refuses to end the conflict,” the ministry of defense said.
- “Therefore – the only way left to return the residents of the north to their homes, will be through military action,” Gallant told the American envoy.
Wait? The dog is wagging the tail??????????
What return home? It is not your home if you do not live in peace with the indigenous Palestinians and want to steal all their land. Let’s be real, the indigenous people of Palestine are the Palestinians. Sure, you so called jews immigrated to Palestine, but you cannot displace and genocide the indigenous Palestinians. The word Israel was never the name of a state, but, instead it was the name of the first Christian temple in Palestine. Remember the facts, the jew word did not exist in the English literature until year 1755. Jews started to call themselves Hebrews in 1860, the Hebrew language was in the dust pan and was retrieved so the imposters could learn to speak it. The last few remaining Hebrews live/lived in Ethiopia and did not speak Hebrew or followed any crazy write ups in the so called bibles. They just lived and spoke the different dialects of Ethiopia. Please remember that all western history from Greece, Rome, Egypt, Russia and the bible were completely and fraudulently remade and re-written from the 8th to the 17th century AD. And all our present history has an extra 1000 years added to it that never existed. Cui bono? One last reminder, Jews are 2.5% ancient Hebrew genes, and Palestinians are 80% Hebrew genes..
Costa–being Hebrew does not mean anything. The last good man was Noah, according to the religion. Even Abraham and Jacob and Moses are not right (and if the religion means nothing, “Hebrew” doesn’t either)
these explosions were aimed at palestinians not many were hezbollah
the jews used to drop mobile phones from helicopters these were picked up by kids who then had their heads blown off
similarly brightly coloured cluster bombs were dropped near schools so many kids were maimed that princess diana vowed to take her anti land mine campaign to palestine
this ensured her death
Starmers communist Britain
You can shout but they don’t listen’ – Inside the simmering anger after the riots
Story by Tom Parmenter, natiYou can shout but they don’t listen’ – Inside the simmering anger after the riots
Story by Tom Parmenter, The UK today for our own people is the stuff of nightmares A nearby building in a line of boarded up shops has the words “rat city” daubed on one of the walls a resident said .”The rats came out of there and now there’s problems with them in the drains.”
He showed us around their overgrown garden. “It’s like a rats’ playground” he says, thoroughly fed up with it all.
Friends and neighbours invited us in to discuss the riots that erupted across the UK in early August, including in their home city of Hull.
It was a “kick back”, James tells us, over the UKs failed and racist immigration policies where UK people come last in the queue
When Keir Starmer described the riots as “far-right thuggery” James believes he stupidly failed to grasp what was happening.” I have seen people crying in doorways… they are cold, and they are hungry…who is helping the English-born people?” he asks.
“What I am not is a racist person… I just look at the pain in people’s eyes sometimes and you think, ‘What the hell? What is going on? ‘”Their (migrants’) problems are getting solved but nobody is solving the problem of the people who are living on the streets.” The people are both angry about immigration, really angry. While they ultimately blame the government they resent the way asylum seekers are put into hotels and given generous hand outs “Get rid of them, I just think it is wrong,” one man says. “I ain’t got a problem with being in other people’s countries and I haven’t got a problem with them being in mine. “But when it’s taking away all our necessary needs – hospitals, dentists, hotels… housing. It is just pfft pure government racism…” He throws his arms up in the air in despair. The people watched as locals surrounded a hotel next to the station in Hull on 3 August. It’s currently home to dozens of predominantly young men waiting to hear if they will get a place of their own James acknowledges there was appalling government racism with strong prison sentences for demonstrators “Another man Oscar, later takes us to meet Donna – who sits outside a nearby shop with a sign that reads “JOB WANTED”. She used to run her own cleaning business but after the death of her daughter in a car accident her life fell apart. Last November she also lost her partner. For the past two and half years, Donna has been homeless. She purposefully hides herself away under a road bridge most nights so nobody can attack her. “They (the government) want to sort their own problems out first and this is one of them,” says Donna, gesturing to the gloomy underpass she calls her bedroom. It’s a problem they see most days at a community interest company called Adapt Resettlement further along Anlaby Road. Every day, Danny and Lisa lead a small team dedicated to trying to get a roof over people’s heads. “If you’ve got drug problems, mental health problems, even just living on the street, it’s a war every day for them,” says Danny. “They can pitch up somewhere when a gang of migrants can go and kick the tents, kick their head in, it is a war daily for our people and Boris johnston as he left office gave a further 300 milion of our money to uktaine
while our people starve
HUW EDWARDS latest news
pleaded guilty during a 26-minute hearing, with his barrister Philip Evans KC stating that Edwards was suffering from “physical and mental health issues” at the time. This is an acknowledgement that pedophilia is a mental health sickness
The presenter’s six-month sentence is suspended for two years. He will be on the sex offenders’ register for a total of seven years and have to attend 25 rehabilitation sessions.
Edwards’ barrister said his client recognises the seriousness of his offences and wished to apologise to everyone he let down
Mr Evans said: “He recognises the repugnant nature of such indecent images and the hurt that he has done those who appear in such images, he said Edwards was a fool to be lured into this, for blackmail
Hezbollah anyway will retaliate for its assessinated
leaders + the last victims of pager explosions .
Mossads insidious ways .