There are five key reasons as to why Israel needs southern Lebanon.
- The first is that it helps to expand Israel’s land area.
- The second is the need for a so-called “buffer zone”, which means pushing back Hezbollah north some 40 kms from its borders, to a new Israeli-defined border – the Litani river-
- The third is the Litani River – a valuable water source.
- The fourth reason is gas. As seen from the map, the Qana and Karish gas fields overlap the maritime borders of both Lebanon and Israel. Israel wants to steal these resources for itself. As it usually does. Hezbollah has stopped them for the past 2 decades.
- The fifth is to eliminate any support from Hezbollah for the Palestinians – thus, Israel has to destroy Hezbollah.
It can only do all of these if it manages to destroy Hezbollah. We know, now, that it is another pipe dream of the Rothschild’s.
But, the intention and planning is never hidden by the Zionists, as they love to boast about what nasty things they plan to do to this or that country. Thus, we find that there is a group in Israel that have publicized their intentions. The Movement for Settlement in Southern Lebanon has a map with “the new Hebrew names for the settlements of Southern Lebanon,” based on the current names of the Lebanese towns and villages. The Israeli movement seeks to promote the conquest, ethnic cleansing, and settlement of southern Lebanon by Israeli Jews, just as Israel has been doing in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The map was published amid the Israeli army’s massive bombing campaign in southern Lebanon that has killed over 500 people in just three days and displaced tens of thousands more that have fled north toward Beirut.
In the movement’s worldview, “the Israeli settlement of southern Lebanon will begin with a war with Hezbollah – which they view not as a last resort barring a diplomatic solution, but as the only reasonable path forward.” The movement claims a Biblical justification for the conquest of Lebanon in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 3, verse 25. As Moses appeals to God to allow him to enter the Promised Land, he asks, “Let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan – that fine hill country and Lebanon.”
Uri Tzafon (“Awaken North”), an Israeli group demanding the conquest and Jewish settlement of Lebanon, sent into southern Lebanon in June carrying eviction notices to the region’s residents. “The announcements make clear to the residents that they are in the Land of Israel, which belongs to the Jewish people, and that they are required to evacuate immediately,” the group said in a statement. Uri Tzafon echoes a principle that is becoming more prominent among Israelis, including soldiers serving in Gaza. In November 2023, as the bombing and invasion of Gaza was well underway, Captain Amichai Friedman, the rabbi of the Nahal brigade’s military base, stated that Israel’s intention to not only take Gaza but Lebanon as well. “This land is ours. All of it. Including Gaza. Including Lebanon. The entire Promised Land,” he told a group of soldiers.
Israel continues to pummel Lebanon, proving itself to be the only country in the world that can literally bomb and invade all of its neighbors at will without serious international consequences.
The Constant Provocations & Israel’s Aim
As Israel finds victory in Gaza and the West Bank becoming a distant dream, it finds itself relying more on Washington for help and back-up. Remember that the Gaza conflict suited the geopolitical aims of the Rockefeller family. For Israel, it created the opportunity to clear Gaza of those ‘pesky Palestinians”. Israel is not used to long wars. This conflict is turning into a war of attrition – a war that both Israel and the US cannot sustain, on a military level. Both the US and the EU are fast becoming de-militarized. Soon, the only option might be to “go nuclear”.
The elephant in the room at this point in time is the BRICS summit in Kazan on the 22nd of October – in less than 3 weeks’ time. The aim of the US is to create problems for Putin at the summit- by turning it into a failure. The fastest way to accomplish that in so short a time is to “blow up” the Middle East. The “softest” target is Hezbollah. If it were to be militarily squeezed, then Iran may be compelled to enter the conflict. The problem is that Iran is not falling into this US/Israeli trap, despite the numerous provocations.
The Israeli conflict has again begun escalating to what looks like a major war in Lebanon. But what’s been understated is the true reason for why Israel is suddenly so desperate to expand the war to Lebanon. There are several reasons, of course, with varying importance; and while each play a part, let’s look at the most significant.
1. Firstly, Israel’s economy is in danger of crumbling partly owing to the fact that the productivity of the entire north has been disrupted by ongoing repercussions of the Hezbollah fight. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of settlers have fled, farms have been abandoned, etc. This much Netanyahu has openly stated—that the north must be ‘secured’ in order to bring people back, otherwise it can turn into an abandoned wasteland as Israeli’s don’t quite have the same taste for living amidst open hostilities as the nearby Arabs whom they’ve subjected to such conditions for years.
We’ll call this reason the most overt and ostensibly ‘official’ one, for the sake of political optics. But there are deeper ones.
2. Another major reason that few have gleaned or spoken of is a broader strategic one. Israel has not only likely deduced its time is running out due to the wane of the US Empire which is its chief supporter and provider, but more specifically, Israel may be taking advantage of a short window of unprecedented American weakness and total lack of leadership.
As most know, there is pretty literally no one in the ‘driver’s seat’ of the executive branch at the moment. The entire US government is being run managerially by deep state operatives, members of the cabinet, etc. After Joe Biden was openly couped months ago, he has effectively been placed in a kind of holding cell, where he appears to have been instructed to keep quiet, keep out of the spotlight, and basically run out the clock under threat of consequences. The country is now being entirely run by a slew of minions like Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken, etc.
Israel’s Goals
The occupation state’s violent rampage against Lebanon over the last 3 weeks sought to achieve several goals:
First, to widely disrupt Hezbollah’s command and control system by striking its communication networks and targeting central and pivotal leaders.
Second, to pressure Hezbollah to disengage from the Gaza front, which has strategic consequences in the short and long term.
Third, Tel Aviv is trying to alter the security paradigm on its border with Lebanon and implement more advantageous conditions that give Israel an upper hand in its 11- month battle with the Lebanese resistance. The Israelis are desperately seeking new, favorable rules of engagement with their northern adversary – an ambition sought since Israel was militarily ousted from Lebanon in 2000 and then again in 2006.
Fourth, the Israelis are working to prepare the ground for a future hot war that will enable it to attack the resistance at a critical political moment that serves its interests. Lastly, Tel Aviv’s recent attacks are meant to send other regional actors a hard message, in particular the Axis Resistance Axis, by demonstrating that they can effectively target and degrade their ‘masterminds.’
Fifth, with the weather due to change within a few weeks, curtailing – or even halting – air operations, Israel was faced with having to choose between two alternative courses: Military action within weeks, or to wait until next spring to exert more pressure on Hezbollah to shift its stance.
Planning the Assassination
The Mossad and Unit 8200 have masterminded many successful operations in the past, some of which have a long-term component within them. One must acknowledge that booby-trapping the pagers was possibly one of the most sophisticated espionage operations orchestrated by the Israeli Mossad; no less than the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Having stated the above, however, one might be surprised in concluding that as far-reaching as this covert action was for the Israeli spies, in all likelihood, this was a failure. The targeting of the pagers was intended to disrupt the communication channels for Resistance operatives, as well as the civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and Civil Defense
Over the last year or two, Hezbollah had become increasingly concerned that the cell phones used by its members were giving away their locations and allowing the Israelis to target them with airstrikes or missiles, so its leadership finally decided to shift most of its communications network to the use of old-fashioned pagers, which only receive signals rather than also emitting them.
The Israelis had cleverly anticipated that possibility, and several years ago they had established a front-company based in Hungary that produced pagers and other electronic devices under license from a Taiwanese manufacturer. Its initial products were entirely legitimate but Mossad was prepared for any sabotage opportunities that might eventually come along. So when Hezbollah placed the orders with the Hungarian company, BAC Components, the company provided them. These Motorola pagers were then rebuilt with explosives placed in them. Hezbollah had ordered some 4-5,000 units. Now, these pagers were allocated to the civil side of Hezbollah.
The Assassination
Then, at 3:30pm on Tuesday, September 17th all the pagers beeped for an incoming message, prompting their owners to pick them up, and exploded a few seconds later. The result was thousands of such simultaneous pager explosions across Lebanon and elsewhere, with reports of some 3,000 casualties, hundreds of whom were maimed or severely injured, together with about a dozen deaths. The following day, walkie-talkies that had been similarly booby-trapped also detonated as did as some solar panels, and although those numbers were much lower, another couple of dozen deaths were reported, probably because those larger devices concealed heavier explosive charges. All of this produced widespread terror across Lebanon, with everyone suddenly fearful of electronic devices. The US was actively involved in this as well. In fact, practically every move that the IOF makes against Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Gaza is given the green light by the US, and many times we find that the US “mentors” Israel in its aggressive actions. Flying just off Beirut were two US AWACs with their transponders off. The moment the Hezbollah office was bombed, then these two AWACS put on their transponders and flew off!
When Hezbollah responded to the killing of Fuad Shukr, it hit the headquarters of Unit 8200. The buildings were badly hit, resulting in the death of its chief, along with another 100 plus casualties. As usual, Israeli hides the facts. This is meant to be an unprecedented show of precision and planning the likes of which the world has never seen before. Israel admitted the pager attack itself took 15 years to plan, setting up shell companies within shell companies, and even having those companies actually produce and ship real products for several years in order to first build up a reputation of authenticity for them, so they would be entrusted when the time came to distribute the lethal devices.
And what did they get for 15 years’ worth of work and planning? All I saw were hospitals soaked in the blood of civilian casualties and collateral.
Revenge Trumps Reason
Having studied the mindset of the Zionists for decades, whenever a defeat is imposed on its institutions and people, especially if done publicly, humiliation plays a major part in reason leaving a person. For a family as arrogant as the Rothschild’s, this attack on headquarters of Unit 8200 is a classic case. In an act of revenge, the Mossad exploded these pagers used by the Hezbollah civil society.
Over the years, Hezbollah had become quite proud of its security, and the leadership freely admitted that this was the worst breach they had ever suffered, resulting in very serious losses. Then, just a couple of days later, an Israeli airstrike destroyed a Beirut building, killing a high-ranking Hezbollah military leader and a number of his colleagues as they were meeting together, perhaps to plan a retaliatory strike against Israel. It’s obvious that Hezbollah has suffered a very bloody nose, and a major setback in its ongoing military conflict against Israel.
So Hezbollah has merely licked its wounds and is surely now putting in place a replacement communications network, presumably based upon a large shipment of carefully vetted pagers received from Iran or China or Russia. Israel thus lost the element of surprise, with little to show for it except wounding a large number of Hezbollah members. Thus, the exploding pagers merely produced a tactical victory instead of a potentially strategic one. In short, Hezbollah’s communications at the civil level took a major hit, but this will not unduly impact upon its military forces. For years, the Movement has operated on the basis that units could continue with combat, even in the event of a complete rupture of optic communications, or the loss of a HQ. Before the 2006 war, Hezbollah ended all cellphone and landline communications in favor of their own dedicated messaging optic cable system and hand- couriers for the dedicated military cadres.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah’s military effectiveness hardly seems to have been crippled. Early Sunday morning, its forces fired off bombarding areas far south of those they had previously targeted. The very tight Israeli censorship makes it difficult to estimate damage, but it sounds like Israel’s Iron Dome defenses failed to stop many of the projectiles, which inflicted numerous casualties and started large fires, while Hezbollah could probably keep these attacks at this level every day for the next several years, completely saturating and overwhelming Israel’s defenses. Thus, pager explosions or not, Hezbollah’s huge arsenal could easily level most of Israel’s cities while the Israelis still seem reluctant to tangle with its very formidable ground forces. I think that the longer term strategic consequences of that exploding pager operation may be very negative for Israel.
Although America’s fiercely pro-Israel mainstream media would never treat it as such, the sudden simultaneous detonation of those thousands of pagers all across Lebanon and some nearby areas obviously amounted to a gigantic terrorist attack, and was certainly seen as such by nearly the entire world. Indeed, some Lebanese have described it as their own 9/11.
Hezbollah is one of Lebanon’s largest political organizations, and many of those pagers had apparently been distributed to its affiliated civilian members, who were obviously not legitimate targets of deadly attacks, especially in a country not at war. Israelis have further compounded their long record of flagrant war-crimes. Moreover, nothing like this had ever previously been attempted, and Israel’s Mossad operation may have dangerous consequences for the entire world. Now that this line has been crossed and everyone has witnessed the huge potential impact of this sort of deadly attack, others may decide to do the same given that the technology involved is easily available to every major country as well as many non-state actors. Apparently the high-explosive compound employed was very difficult to detect by scanning or any other means, so what would stop explosive-filled laptops or other large electronic devices from being used to bring down civilian planes in flight?
The societies of America and the West are very soft targets, unused to the regular attacks that Israel has inflicted upon its Middle Eastern neighbors, so the deployment of booby-trapped electronic devices would have a hugely negative impact upon the western way of life. The possible damage to the market reputation of Taiwan’s consumer electronics industry and that of other manufacturers aligned with the West may also be quite substantial. The best example is Motorola, which sued Israel 2 weeks ago for $! Billion in damages to its reputation. With Mossad having so easily taken deadly advantage of the security gaps of the contract manufacturers in those supply chains, what rational country in the Middle East would not factor that risk into its future orders? Huawei and other Chinese companies provide the full range of such products, with their quality at least as good and their prices generally much lower, while their devices would be almost totally immune to such sabotage. Over the last year, Israeli representatives have expressed ferocious public hostility towards almost all of the nations of the world, denouncing them for joining together in the series of near-unanimous UN votes condemning the ongoing genocidal rampage in Gaza. Many of these countries and organizations may begin to wonder if they might eventually be targeted in political retaliation, and therefore chose to be safe rather than sorry by switching their purchases of consumer electronics to Chinese vendors. The outcome is going to be negative for Western companies such as Motorola, Apple, etc.
Two days later, Israeli fighter jets bombed two residential buildings in Beirut’s southern suburb, killing 54 people, including women and children, and assassinating several commanders of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Forces, including the head of the forces, while expanding its air strikes to target what the Israelis claimed were Hezbollah’s “military capabilities.”
Hezbollah Responds
The Lebanese Resistance movement does not deny that the strikes on the southern suburb were painful for both Hezbollah and its supporters. But they make clear that the Israeli attacks did not affect either their military structure or operation capabilities. The evidence of this came swiftly, with a targeting the Ramat David Military Airbase – the main base for occupation air force strikes on Lebanon and Syria – and the Rafael military industries complex, southeast and north of Haifa, respectively.
These massive retaliations were intended to mainly confirm to the occupation forces that Hezbollah has no plans to retreat from its own stated goals of pressuring Tel Aviv to end its assault on Gaza – and that it will not allow the Israelis to separate and compartmentalize the Gaza front from the Lebanon one, as the US has sought to do throughout ceasefire negotiations.
Thus far, it is hard to argue that Tel Aviv has succeeded in its goal of disrupting Hezbollah’s command and control. Massive Israeli killing sprees throughout Lebanon will not impact a resistance movement that has fought guerrilla battles since its inception and has grown tremendously in sophistication – both tactically, strategically, and in terms of qualitative missile technology.
Instead, Hezbollah continues to firmly maintain its position on Israel ending its military assault on Gaza and has quickly rearranged its internal affairs to retaliate against the occupation state – even launching a new phase of the conflict, which it calls the “as open ended battle of reconciliation “.
The announcement of the new phase was authorized by the Sunday morning strikes when the Lebanese resistance targeted the Ramat David Military Airbase southeast of Haifa and the Rafael military industries complex north of the city with Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 as part of its initial retaliation. Both of these sites were badly damaged.
Messages of Hezbollah’s Retaliation
Through its initial retaliation and declaration of the new battle phase, Hezbollah is sending the following messages:
First, the resistance’s command-and-control system was not damaged or exposed to failure.
Second, Hezbollah responded to Israel’s massive expansion of strikes by immediately deepening its retaliatory strikes to over 50 kilometers inside the occupation state. This is part of the resistance’s deterrence formula imposed on Tel Aviv: an “expansion for expansion.”
Third, Hezbollah will meet Israeli gradualism with gradualism to shuffle the military cards constantly and push the enemy to change many of its calculations.
Fourth, it will not just launch minimal retaliations to disrupt the enemy’s goals, but will meet it with forceful and demoralizing strikes as well.
Accordingly, Israel’s carpet bombing in southern Lebanon , its massive Dahiyeh attack, and its state terrorism on Tuesday and Wednesday have ushered in a new phase of confrontation, in which Israel’s every initiative will be met with a counter. Perhaps the scene at the onset of the “open-ended battle of reckoning” phase – waves of rocket fire in and around the occupation state’s prized port city of Haifa – is a prime example.
Because of the sheer number of attacks and responses happening on a daily basis, we felt that a chronology of events will suffice to clarify the sequence of events.
The Israeli occupation assassinated in the past weeks two of Hezbollah’s top military commanders, Shukr and Ibrahim Aqil, in addition to the chief of its missile unit on Tuesday, Ibrahim Kobeissi, along with other leaders and fighters.
Chronology:
Sept 17/18 the pager bombs went off
Sept 19 Israeli warplanes launched heavy and indiscriminate attacks across the south of Lebanon on Thursday the 19 September, as Hezbollah turned up the heat against Israel’s northern settlements and military sites.
Hezbollah carried out 17 operations against Israel on 19 September.
Marking its 17th and final operation on Thursday, Hezbollah announced “targeting the Metula site with a salvo of Falaq rockets” that evening, which came in response “to the enemy’s attacks” on civilians and southern villages, Hezbollah said in a statement via its media page. The attack on the base caused extensive damage. Hebrew Channel 14 correspondent Boaz Golan said six to eight Burkan missiles were fired at the Metula settlement despite Hezbollah’s statement listing them as Falaq. It caused “massive destruction, fires and direct damage to buildings … I have not seen anything like this since the beginning of the war,” said the head of Metula settlement’s regional council, David Azoulay. “The Israeli government is not doing anything to remove the threat,” the settler-official
Hezbollah carried out over a dozen other attacks, including a suicide drone operation against a newly established army headquarters near Yaara, and several artillery and rocket attacks on military bases, including the headquarters of the 810th Hermon Brigade in the Ma’ale Golani barracks.
Israeli airstrikes targeted Lebanon throughout most of 19 September. Israel has redeployed its forces from Gaza to the northern front and has increased threats of an expanded military operation against south Lebanon.
“This idiot, the commander of the northern region in the enemy’s army, suggested establishing a security belt,” Nasrallah said during his speech. “We hope that they will enter our lands, we welcome this … because … we will have a historic opportunity that … will have major effects on this battle -A security belt will turn into a trap … into a major ambush … into hell for the Israeli army :, and “After today [the day of the pager simultaneous explosions], there can be no talk about settlement and solutions – In just one minute, the enemy succeeded in delivering its harshest blows to the body of the Islamic Resistance … Furthermore through yesterday’s operation, the enemy confirmed that it doesn’t want to abide by the rules of engagement. Have the doors to a war then been opened: a war without any limits, ceilings, or borders”?
For the last year, both Israel and Hezbollah have avoided major escalation by observing unwritten rules of engagement or ‘equations’ between the parties, such as not targeting civilians. That is now over.
Nasrallah warned: “The enemy declares as its official goal to return the settlers to the North. We accept the challenge: You will not be able to return to the North. In fact, we will displace more Israelis from their homes. We hope Israel enters Lebanon, we are waiting for their tanks day and night: We say, ‘welcome!’”.
There is some point to this remark. From the outset, Hezbollah was configured militarily more for all-out war with Israel, than the limited tit-for-tat, calibrated war – which never played best to Hezbollah’s strengths.
Sept 22 Hezbollah launched on Sunday 22 September its response to the Israeli terror attacks carried against Lebanon over the week, striking targets deep inside Israel.
“In an initial response to the brutal massacre committed by the Israeli enemy in various Lebanese regions on Tuesday and Wednesday (the Pager and wireless devices massacre), we bombed the military industries complexes of the Rafael Company, which specializes in electronic means and equipment, located in the Zevulun area north of Haifa, with dozens of Fadi 1, Fadi 2, and Katyusha missiles, at 6:30 am on this Sunday morning, September 22, 2024,” Hezbollah said early Sunday. The initial response came shortly after Hezbollah announced two operations targeting the southeast of Haifa, which houses air force squadrons and fighter jets. Ramat David airbase is the only airbase in the north and is used for Israeli aerial operations against Lebanon. It is also considered one of the largest.
“In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, the Islamic Resistance targeted the Ramat David base and airport for the second time on Sunday, with dozens of Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 missiles, in response to the repeated Israeli attacks that targeted various Lebanese regions and led to the fall of many civilian martyrs,” Hezbollah said in its second statement. The airbase is one of the targets featured in one of Hezbollah’s Hudhud (Hoopoe released in July) in that episode, the identity of the base’s commander was revealed.
The first rocket attack on the Ramat David base was launched at around 1:00 in the morning on 22 September. Sirens sounded in over 70 northern settlements during the onset of the first operation. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers made their way to shelters. Impact was made as deep as the Afula area, sparking fires and causing a power outage. Hezbollah’s rockets also made it as far as Nazareth during the first and second attacks on Ramat David airbase, causing a large blaze. The Fadi-1 and Fadi-1 heavy rockets were “used for the first time” since the start of the war. The sources said they were launched from one of the Imad revealed by Hezbollah last month. Casualties were reported after the first and second attacks on Ramat David.
Several sites in the Haifa area continued to burn on Sunday morning following the three Hezbollah operations. The targets struck by Hezbollah are the deepest hits by the resistance group since the 2006 war. As is customary, military censorship has been imposed over the event.
Sept 23 Monday since Monday the 23rd, “Israel” launched an ongoing aggression across Lebanon, particularly areas in South Lebanon and the Bekaa region in the northeast, killing at least 558 people and wounding over 1,800 others.
Other than assassinations, Israel’s bombing campaign destroys infrastructure and kills civilians. Most of Hezbollah-like Hamas-is underground, with most of its capabilities untouched. However, Hezbollah immediately assigned new members to take over the responsibilities of the assassinated leaders. Nasrallah has consistently emphasized that whenever a leader is assassinated, a successor is swiftly appointed to take over and fulfill their responsibilities, asserting that Hezbollah is a robust and well-established organization that will remain unshaken, even in the face of the loss of high-ranking commanders. Meanwhile, he confirmed earlier this year that the Resistance group has 100,000 well-trained fighters.
This is the most formidable enemy Israel has ever faced on the battlefield, not because of numbers and tech but in terms of resilience. Extreme resilience and unwavering dedication. Hezbollah has demonstrated its ability to continue operations, launching hundreds of rockets deeper into occupied Palestine every day.
Mossad Headquarters Destroyed
Sept 25 Wed –The Resistance targeted early Wednesday the 25th – more than 100km away from the Lebanese borders and for the first time ever with a Qadr ballistic missile- The Mossad command center in Tel Aviv’s suburbs, which is responsible for the assassination of the group’s leaders and the pagers’ terrorist attack. Reports suggest that the Mossad buildings were damaged badly, with casualties- as usual, Israel hides its losses.
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah announced Wednesday that its fighters launched rockets targeting a bomb material factory in Zikhron, occupied southern Haifa, using a barrage of Fadi-3 rockets.
For the second time on Wednesday, Hezbollah struck the settlement of Kiryat Motzkin with volleys of Fadi -1 rockets. Concurrently, Hezbollah’s air defense units engaged two hostile fighter jets near the Lebanese towns of Houla and Mays al-Jabal to force them out of Lebanese airspace.
The Lebanese Resistance has expanded its strikes toward Israeli occupation military bases in northern occupied Palestine, landing precise and direct hits despite an unprecedented Israeli assault on various regions in the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah fighters also attacked the Ramiah military site, targeting intelligence-gathering equipment installed on it. Using the “appropriate weapons,” Hezbollah fighters were able to destroy the hardware.
Later the Resistance fired large-caliber artillery shells at the Biranit barracks, dealing direct hits to the frontline site.
Hezbollah had inflicted significant losses on the Israeli occupation through the expansion of its operations, with Israeli media saying “Israel” has lost an estimated $1.07 billion over the past two days alone.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported that “Israel’s” strikes on Lebanon on Monday cost the entity some ($173 million). Officials have underlined that if the airstrikes campaign on Lebanon protracts beyond 10 days, it would require the approval of an additional budget breach.
Bombing Radwan Force Leaders
Sept 26 Thur – the Israeli military’s access to the resistance’s leadership is clearly the result of years or even decades of intelligence efforts. It must be acknowledged that what happened in Dahiyeh – or Beirut’s southern suburb – last Friday showcased Tel Aviv’s ability to identify and target the location of a meeting of Radwan Forces leaders, the vaunted Hezbollah Special Forces that Israelis have obsessed over for years. The execution of the assassination operation, compounded by Israeli “leaks” that a “reliable intelligence source” provided them with target intel, gives the impression that Israeli operatives were able to create a security breach close to Radwan’s inner circle.
In reality, it is impossible to verify Israel’s claims for several reasons, primarily because Tel Aviv is waging a media war of disinformation and employing psychological warfare to target both the resistance and Israel’s own domestic constituents.For certain, no additional information was provided by Hezbollah about the Dahiyeh attack – whether a breach of security occurred in its ranks or something else. The resistance group is known for keeping tight control over information derived from internal investigations and has rarely deviated from that strategy. If Hezbollah manages to gather new information from its investigations into Israel’s pager terror attack or from the Dahiyeh bombing, it will surely use it only internally to build on its flaws and minimize vulnerabilities.
For all Israel’s “remarkable” prowess, they’ve managed to quickly sweep under the rug the fact that after a year of combat, they have not even been able to take out Hamas, which is slowly repopulating into Gaza—but we’re meant to believe they have entirely destroyed Hezbollah in a mere day or two of active strikes?
The story continues in Part 2 – – –
