Israeli-Hezbollah conflict

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Originally an Outgrowth of European Colonialism, Israel Now Threatens West’s Dominance, by John Miles for Sputnikglobe.com. 10.04.2024.

The defense of Israel has become a primary driver of Western policy in the Middle East even as some question the ramifications for US national security or American interests more broadly.

The emergence of the Zionist project owes much to the legacy of European imperialism, but Israel’s conduct now threatens to bring a dying Western hegemony crashing down.

The claim was made by commentators Robert Fantina and Niko House, who appeared on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program Thursday to respond to Israel’s intensifying attacks across its border with Lebanon.

Tel Aviv has launched a highly provocative military campaign against the neighboring country even as Western media has focused on Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israel Tuesday, which have resulted in no Israeli fatalities. Israel has undertaken a number of strikes from the air on Lebanon while also initiating a ground invasion across the country’s southern border.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the campaign in response to Hezbollah’s periodic rocket attacks into northern Israel, which have primarily been aimed at military targets. The group has claimed it will continue its attacks until Tel Aviv ends its military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 42,000.

But Israel has repeatedly struck civilian targets in and around the Lebanese capital of Beirut, claiming it is attempting to neutralize Hezbollah fighters. Some 37 people were reportedly killed in attacks on apartment high-rises and other residential buildings Thursday, a number typical of Tel Aviv’s recent strikes in the country. Lebanon’s health ministry claims 1,974 have died in Israeli attacks on the country since October 8 last year.

Recently it emerged that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had agreed to a ceasefire with Israel before he was killed by an Israeli strike last week. His death represents the latest Israeli killing of a series of leaders across the Arab world tasked with heading up peace talks with Tel Aviv.

“Netanyahu actually said the component that forced him to to disagree with the ceasefire was the component about the ceasefire in Gaza,” said House. “[Netanyahu] just gave the US and France – not to mention Lebanon, obviously – the middle finger after they had told everybody that it was all good, there is going to be a ceasefire. So I just find it bizarre that the US rewarded this blatant disregard for diplomacy by giving [Israel] $8.7 billion. That’s insane.”

Fantina compared the death of Nasrallah to Israel’s killing of Hamas lead negotiator Ismail Haniyeh in July.

“This was the person who was working with the various parties trying to bring about a ceasefire and Israel assassinated him,” Fantina noted. “Then Nasrallah was working from the Lebanon side for a ceasefire to end the carnage that Israel is committing against the people of Lebanon, and so, Israel killed him. So how are they serious about any kind of a ceasefire if they keep killing the negotiators? … Rather than discuss the issue, [Netanyahu] simply killed Nasrallah, setting any negotiations back.”

“Remember, Israel is the monster of the US's creation and it's one that it's lost control of,” he claimed. “Who knows what's going to happen next, but the possibility of Israel pulling the United States into a war in the Middle East grows every day, and it would be a disaster for everyone.”

The modern movement towards the creation of Israel began during the late 19th century, when Austro-Hungarian activist Theodor Herzl proposed the establishment of a Jewish state in the Levant on the model of historical European colonialism. Herzl conceived of the project in explicitly racial terms, attempting to sell European dignitaries on the concept of an “outpost of [Western] civilization against barbarism” in the Arab world.

The UK spearheaded Israel’s creation in land it had colonized in historic Palestine but the United States quickly became the country’s most powerful backer, with former President Harry Truman seeking to satisfy “hundreds of thousands” of constituents “anxious for the success of Zionism.” President Lyndon Johnson became a strong backer of Israeli interests after his predecessor John F. Kennedy had tried to prevent the country from developing a nuclear bomb; Johnson even hid Israeli responsibility for the death of 34 American servicemen from the public after the country fired on the USS Liberty in 1967.

Pro-Israel interests have since become highly influential in US foreign policy circles as the Zionist lobby aggressively wields its financial influence in political campaigns. The defense of Israel has become a primary driver of Western policy in the Middle East even as some question the ramifications for US national security and American interests more broadly.

“The thing that US government officials do not understand when… the US assassinates one or two or 50 of their leaders: it doesn't break the resistance,” said Fantina. “They regroup. For every resistance fighter that the US or Israel, or the US or any of its proxies kills, then 10 new resistance fighters join.”

“I do believe, honestly, that the United States did want a ceasefire agreement because they have interests in Lebanon,” said House. “[Israel] can't handle that war by themselves. So that means we're going to have to get involved and that is a very unpopular position here in the US.”

“Israel is putting us in a position where they're trying to force our hand,” he added, noting that the US is struggling amid its proxy war in Ukraine as Netanyahu raises the prospect of US support for Israel’s multi-front war. “They don't want a situation where they have to be forced to answer the question, can we even handle a war with Iran? We can't even hold onto the few countries that we were supposed to be holding onto recently.”

https://sputnikglobe.com/20241004/originally-an-outgrowth-of-european-colonialism-israel-now-threatens-wests-dominance-1120407159.html

The US objective is just to reign over the rubble in the Middle East. Simple as that.
If you understand that, then everything makes sense.

You can tell the hohols and the zhids are cut from the same cloth because to them perception is everything.

Niggas are perfectly fine with wasting elite troops in retarded pushes through the most obvious killzones imaginable just to get that perfect war winning kodak moment.

Under a parallel command structure, no single force commander is designated. The coalition leadership must develop a means for co-ordination among the participants to obtain unity of effort. This can be accomplished through the use of co-ordination centres:

Expert suggests parallel command structure in Hezbollah, by Andrey Rezchikov for VZGLYAD. 10.05.2024.

Orientalist Semenov: After the death of Nasrullah's successor, Hezbollah still holds the front.

Despite the death of its leadership, Hezbollah continues to conduct military operations and repel Israeli attacks; perhaps there is a parallel command structure in the organization, orientalist Kirill Semenov told the Vzglyad newspaper. On Saturday, Arab sources reported the death of the head of the Hezbollah executive council, Hashem Safi al-Din, who was one of the likely successors to the previously liquidated Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.

"The probable death of the head of the Hezbollah executive council, Hashem Safi al-Din, should have worsened the situation of the organization, which is unable to preserve its leaders. Apparently, the leaders of Hezbollah move quite freely and participate in meetings without observing security measures," says orientalist Kirill Semenov, an expert at the Russian International Affairs Council.

According to him, Hezbollah still has no problem holding the front and conducting military operations in southern Lebanon, however, "as it turns out, its leaders are completely unprotected." "And here the question arises, how significant is the loss of leadership for Hezbollah, if someone continues to lead operations, repel Israeli attacks, launch rockets at Haifa," the expert noted.

Semenov did not rule out the existence of a parallel command structure in Hezbollah that Israel cannot destroy. “That is, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminates those who are visible, which, of course, creates serious tension around the organization regarding the presence of possible Israeli agents,” the speaker added.

Safi al-Din, like other Hezbollah leaders, had close ties to Iran, making him a prominent figure in the group's operations. "The spiritual leader of Lebanese Hezbollah is Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. All leaders of the organization will in any case closely coordinate their actions with Tehran," Semenov emphasized.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant announced the day before that the operation in southern Lebanon would continue until Hezbollah's military facilities were completely destroyed, "but for now we can only talk about killing the leaders," Semenov notes.

The new Secretary General of the organization after the murder of Hassan Nasrallah may be 71-year-old Lebanese Shiite cleric and politician Naim Qasem, who was the deputy secretary general and is now acting as the head of the group instead of the previously liquidated Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. "In this case, Qasem becomes the only candidate for the post of Secretary General of Hezbollah," the orientalist believes.

On Saturday, Al Arabiya reported that Hashem Safi al-Din, the head of Hezbollah's executive council, was killed in an Israeli strike on a southern suburb of Beirut. According to the channel, the official was killed in Friday's IDF attack. Several officers from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed along with him. The strike is a significant loss for the group, given the status of the dead.

https://vz.ru/news/2024/10/5/1290859.html

Nothing if not predictable. Macron said he would stop France supplying Israel: so they had to be punished. This is what a Total petrol station looks like when hit, perhaps there was a Hesbollah vehicle filling up at the time