The IDF is preparing southern Lebanon for an invasion. Once the invasion begins, we will not stop until all areas south of Litani River are cleared, giving them a very short window to comply

In this regard, two additional brigades are being mobilized alongside the existing forces, indicating our intent for a swift and decisive operation.



I add:
Hezbollah made a fatal mistake. Nasrallah misjudged the resolve of Israel and its citizens.

Veteran Lebanese journalist Ali Hamadeh published an article on Monday in the “Al-Nahar” newspaper, reflecting on all of Nasrallah’s miscalculations:

1. The initial assessment was that Israel would not engage in a prolonged war in Gaza, but it has, and it continues to fight.
2. Another expectation was that the world would turn against Israel and impose a blockade due to the 'massacre' in Gaza, but Israel completed the operation and continues its actions.
3. Nasrallah believed that Hezbollah's missiles would enforce a mutual deterrence equation that would prevent escalation against the organization. However, Israel has killed more than 500 fighters, including high-ranking members.
4. Israel forced Iranian advisors to flee Lebanon and Syria, destroyed the Iranian consulate in central Damascus, and struck Hezbollah's stronghold in Dahiya.
5. Israel will continue because its war option is not political but existential, which is why 62% of Israelis support a comprehensive war against Hezbollah.
6. Hezbollah, pushed by Iran, made a grave — and possibly fatal — mistake by failing to read the situation correctly. As a result, it now finds itself in a battle for survival rather than supporting Hamas.


This post was edited by Many_Names on Sep 25 2024 07:03am

Lets hope you are right and Hezbollah did not have insurances made by their allies Like Iran and other supporting armies that could add up ...Because it could be Israel's mistake's that end up to be more costly. Israel going always have another enemy in the region to escalate with..

It does look like an israeli assault into south Lebanon is imminent. I would imagine that the israeli air force will dominate and render hezz's manpads ineffective initially but hezbollahs potential retaliatory strike via missles (they have scuds now) could be catastrophic for israel.

I also feel that syria/iraq/yemen will start lobbing alot more at israel if things kick off. This is a very dangerous position to be in but the one thing going for israel is that this wont be a forever war with the intention of "nation-building" afterwards, this will be israel just destroying actual military targets/personnel and leaving.

I genuinely hope that the idf can regain some of its lost prowess by fighting hezbollah because imo, they havent been effective in gaza at all. Stay safe bro!

To clarify, I didn’t say an Israeli invasion is imminent, but that preparations are underway, with two brigades being drafted for a swift and decisive action.

Hezbollah’s rockets have caused limited damage, with only a small percentage reaching civilian areas, while most are intercepted or fall in open spaces. Syria poses minimal threat, and countries like Yemen and Iraq are not significant dangers either. The IDF regained its strength by decimating Hezbollah’s leadership, and over 900 Radwan fighters have been killed and more than 2000 are injured.
We are safe—thank you.

2 narratives lately have made me chuckle:

1. hezz fired missiles into israel in the hopes it would ease tensions by showing off their new toys (instead it caused israel to basically declare war against them, OOPS!)

2. the IDF isnt effective in gaza (meanwhile the deathtoll is in every discussion and the country is basically rubble, hard to be more effective unless they committed an african genocide)

Israel is getting real ambitious with the land-grabbing, the occupation army will figure out very soon that fighting an actual military is much different than blowing up women and kids from hundreds of miles away

Can we agree the pager attack was an act of terrorism even if it was targeting terrorists?

That makes it not terrorism by definition

So no

even tho they've been firing rockets for months?

There was a non trivial amount of civilian injuries afaik



My understanding is that the Lebanese civilians aren't able to get rid of hezbollahs presence in the country

This post was edited by duffman316 on Sep 25 2024 03:24pm