Israel’s war with Hezbollah becomes more likely every day. More can be found here:
The 2006 conflict came to a halt because the UN Security Council passed a resolution – 1701 – which assured peace with the promise that Hezbollah would not be permitted to rebuild its arsenal on Israel’s border. Since people are very keen on UN resolutions, it mystifies me that they never bothered to enforce this one. Perhaps it is the case that the UN needn’t abide by all its resolutions….
By UNSC Resolution 1701, Hezbollah was supposed to pull its forces northward beyond the Litani River, and to stop firing rockets across the border at Israel. It did neither. And the UN proved unable to enforce its own resolution. That’s where things stand today: Hezbollah still has its forces right at the border with Israel, and it continues to launch rockets into northern Israel whenever it feels like it. Israel responds, enough to make sure Hezbollah understands there is a price to pay for its attacks, but not enough to overwhelm Hezbollah and to provoke a major war, of the kind the IDF is now engaged in with Hamas. That is the strategy for now. Israel does not want to fight a two-front war. But as soon as Hamas has been dismantled, the IDF will go after Hezbollah in a much deadlier fashion.
Few in Israel’s military establishment believe that war with Hezbollah can be avoided. Hezbollah refrained from joining the Gaza war in order to spare its 100,000 fighters from being bloodied, allowing Hamas to be pummeled by the IDF. And while it has with some regularity launched a few missiles at Israel’s northern towns, it has held back from any massive barrages, saving most of its 160,000 rockets and missiles for a future conflict with the Jewish state. It wants Hamas to inflict as much damage as it can on the IDF, so that Hezbollah, when it does go to war with the “Zionist entity,” will be facing an enemy that has been weakened.
The Bidenites have said nothing about what will happen on Israel’s northern border when the Gaza War is over. They can hardly be unaware that Hezbollah is ten times as powerful as Hamas, and that Iran only need give the word for Hassan Nasrallah to order his myrmidons to swarm into the towns of northern Israel while precision-guided missiles rain down on Israel as far south as Jerusalem. Those who support Israel ought to be raising holy hell in Washington about the war with Hezbollah that is certain to come. The Defense Appropriations bill, that includes about $15 billion in military aid for Israel, is still stuck in the House. Israel needs that aid right now.
The war with Hezbollah, which will be triggered by a barrage of its rockets into northern Israel, should change perceptions of Israel. Such an attack and the war that will inevitably follow when Israel launches its counterattack, will remind the world — which has become much less sympathetic to Israel as the number of civilian casualties in Gaza has risen during the last five months — that Israel is very much the underdog, with Iran-backed enemies on all sides, from Hamas in Gaza, to Hezbollah in Lebanon, to the Houthis in Yemen, to the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militias in Iraq, and to the Alawite-run military in Syria. That perception of Israel as hounded by a host of enemies, determined to destroy the Jewish state and to replace it with a twenty-third Arab one, needs to be re-planted firmly in the popular mind. It is, after all, the truth: Israel has always been and always will be, the underdog beset by many enemies. There are seven million Jews in Israel, compared to 400 million Arabs, and 1.5 billion Muslims. The territory of Israel is 8,630 square miles, while the Arab states together contain five million square miles, or 632 times the territory of Israel. The war with Hamas is important, and must not be allowed to end until Hamas has been totally destroyed. But the main event is the war that the Israelis know is coming, and that they are even now, while fighting Hamas, preparing for “the day after” the war in Gaza when the IDF has to turn its full attention to Hezbollah. One can only hope that the Bidenites will have a new-found sympathy for the Jewish state, still beset by enemies, and thus be prepared to back Jerusalem to the hilt, as they have not done during its current war with Hamas.
Wellington says
UN resolutions are even more worthless than Bud Light.
SC says
Israel might need the money but none of the senate and congress’ pork items nor the Ukraine need to get one cent. Time for you Israeli guys to start calling in favors on both sides, house and senate. That way you get your help and we get to dump the parasitic spending.
SC says
Oh! Forgot to say. Good luck with Hezbollah. The ones that come out in the open need to be Napalmed. The screams will deter the gutless wimps hiding on the sidelines. And screw the UN they are worthless and more corrupt than Illinois.
JimJFox says
Won’t work. Jihadis are assured of entry to Jannah, 72 virgins, everlasting erections, all the booze they want… oh, and pearly boys if that’s their ‘bent’.
Tony Rice says
It must be borne in mind Biden is guided and governed by OBAMA, a self confessed Muslim, FRIEND of IRAN, so Israel will not be 100 % supported by America. Obama probably Vice President in the waiting with K. Harris as President. When Biden was elected President, Obama asked for an office in the Whitehouse. So he ain’t far away, one way or another.