Israeli-Hezbollah conflict

Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, delivers a chilling warning about Hezbollah's true military capabilities.

In this video, Ritter explains how Hezbollah's Operation Arbaeen, the initial retaliation against the Israeli occupation, is a limited attack and is just the tip of the iceberg, revealing only a fraction of its full potential.

Despite "Israel" and the United States being fully mobilized and prepared for a Hezbollah retaliation, the latter's least sophisticated tactics were enough to penetrate Israeli defenses, according to Ritter.

Ritter discusses the implications of this for both "Israel" and the US.

Let's find out why this development is bad news for "Israel" and the US, and how Hezbollah's undisclosed capabilities could shape the next phase.


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Hezbollah: Israeli nightmare of its own creation. Part 2 Part 1 (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31712)

Hezbollah’s ability to wage successful asymmetric warfare against an entity as militarily powerful as Israel is assured by three factors: its weapons, its tunnels and its discipline:

The militia is estimated to have accumulated over a million missiles and rockets, from Kornet and Almas anti-tank missiles to modified Katyushas, Zelzal-2 and Fateh-110 missiles (the latter capable of reaching any point inside Israel). The Israeli military has some of the most sophisticated air and missile defense systems in the world, meaning the key to Hezbollah’s missile threat is saturation – sending more projectiles Israel’s way than can be defended against simultaneously. Hezbollah has also shown the growing prowess of its surveillance and strike drones, with its Hudhud (lit. ‘Hoopoe’) UAV recently penetrating Israeli airspace unmolested and snapping top-secret military targets in northern Israel. The militia’s armed strength is rounded out by its C-802 anti-ship missiles and reportedly, Sayyad-2 SAMs, complicating the operation of Israeli warships, aircraft and drones in the vicinity of the Lebanese border.

Hamas’ vast tunnel network (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/8015) has proved a major headache for Israeli forces in Gaza, with the IDF likening it to an “spider’s web” into which fighters disappear underground and reappear suddenly in the rear areas of maneuvering Israeli forces. But some Israeli intelligence analysts, including former intel officer Tal Beeri, say Hezbollah’s tunnel network is “far more sophisticated,” consisting of a literal “land of the tunnels” consisting of hundreds of kilometers under the whole of south Lebanon. Combined with southern Lebanon’s hilly, greenery rich environment, any ground incursion into the region threatens to become a nightmare for attackers.

Hezbollah’s troops are characterized by allies and adversaries alike as “well-trained and disciplined,” with their training, experience and weaponry described as superior to that of the Lebanese Armed Forces. This, combined with the culture of martyrdom for soldiers of the Shia faith, has allowed Hezbollah to demonstrate a level of tactical prowess superior to virtually all Arab armies clashing with Israel during the 20th century. For example, during the month-long clash with the IDF in July-August 2006, 1,000-2,500 Hezbollah fighters armed with automatic rifles, anti-tank missiles and rocket artillery faced off against between 10,000-30,000 Israeli troops equipped with 100 tanks, 80 APCs, 40 guns and military aviation. After the dust settled, Israel’s sophisticated, high-tech forces lost over 120 troops killed, 1,240+ wounded, 20 tanks destroyed, four helicopters lost and one naval corvette damaged. Hezbollah, for its part, lost 250 fighters, with most of Lebanon’s casualties coming from the nearly 1,200 civilians killed and 4,400+ wounded in Israeli strikes on infrastructure in Beirut and other cities.

Part 1 (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31712)

Hezbollah: Israeli nightmare of its own creation. Part 1 Part 2 (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31713)

Months of escalating tensions between Hezbollah (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31639) and Israel reached a tipping point over the weekend, with the two stepping back from a full-scale war (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31662) after large-scale back-to-back strikes. Israeli officials have been warning for months about a “very intense operation” against the Lebanese militia, but observers warn that any large-scale confrontation could leave Israel more than a bloody nose. Here’s why:

Forged in 1982 out of smaller resistance groups that emerged spontaneously in the aftermath of Israel’s short-sighted 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Hezbollah is a moderate Shia Islamist political party and militia movement with about 12 percent of the seats in Lebanon’s parliament, and a 100,000 men-strong militia. Concentrated in southern Lebanon, Beirut and in the country’s northeast, Hezbollah’s rejection of Israel’s right to exist, and readiness to fight a campaign of asymmetric warfare with the Tel Aviv, has made it arguably the single greatest headache on the Jewish State’s border, with the two clashing well over half-a-dozen times since the 1980s.

Dubbed “the world’s most heavily armed non-state actor” by the globalist neocon Council on Foreign Relations, Hezbollah has some of the best-trained and battle-hardened fighters in the world, fighting Israel into a stalemate in the 2006 Lebanon War, and playing an indispensable role in the defeat of an array of foreign-sponsored jihadists in Syria from 2012 onward.

Part 2 (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31713)

Drone attacking israeli Jal al-Alam site .

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Targeting Talat al-Taihat and the Ramtha site .

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— / NEW: Hezbollah launched a large rocket barrage at the Israeli-occupied city of Safed near the Sea of Galilee; the Iron Dome failed to intercept all of the projectiles

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Hezbollah targets the Israeli army's Beria and Philon bases in northern occupied Palestine.