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Israel – Invading Lebanon To Prolong And Expand Its Supremacists War
Is it a trap?
That is the question the Zionists should ask themselves. To me the answer seems to be 'Yes!'
The Zionist entity is invading Lebanon – again. All earlier such invasions have ended in failure. Zionist troops had to retreat under fire. The current invasion is unlikely to see a better fate.
The Izzies, and their U.S. sponsors, are delirious over their perceived success in killing a number of Hizbullah officials including its leader, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah.
Don't they understand that Hizbullah has explicitly been built in ways that allow it to sustain such losses? All the murdered officials have already been replaced. If these new ones get killed their replacements are ready.
Before last week the war between the resistance was restricted to an (unequal) exchange of missiles. Israel fired many more than the resistance but not to more effect. The nature of that slow walking war of attrition will now change.
An Israeli ground invasion is exactly what Hizbullah has prepared for. It has readied its ambush sites. Its weapons and the people need to launch them are down in their well prepared bunkers.
The invading forces will be subjected to all kind of surprises. The ground troops are expected to proceed only after heavy preparatory bombing. But the mountainous grounds will allow the defenders to survive the bombing and to attack when and where they are least suspected. I do expect heavy military casualties but mostly on the attacker's side.
This war will likely go on for several months. It could easily extend into a years long and much larger conflict.
The Biden administrations is in full support of the invasion. It may even have urged Netanyahoo to proceed with it:
Senior White House figures privately told Israel that the U.S. would support its decision to ramp up military pressure against Hezbollah — even as the Biden administration publicly urged the Israeli government in recent weeks to curtail its strikes, according to American and Israeli officials.
Presidential adviser Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East, told top Israeli officials in recent weeks that the U.S. agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s broad strategy to shift Israel’s military focus to the north against Hezbollah in order to convince the group to engage in diplomatic talks to end the conflict, the officials told POLITICO.
The Pentagon though is not convinced that this operation will be a success. It fears that, at some point, the U.S. forces will be sent in to rescue the Izzies from a severe defeat.
The Netanyahoo government will try its best to expand the war into Syria or, even further, into an all out war on Iran. It will need the full military support from the U.S. to do so. Its political maneuvering towards the U.S. will thus be done with the intent to further drag it into the war.
Without the full support of the U.S. Israel will fail to become the regional superpower it is striving to be.
With full U.S. support their might be a chance, a small one though, for Israel to win this round.
When the European crusaders tried to colonialize the Levant they built some 37 large castles to hold to their gains. Some 150 years later the crusaders had left. The castles though still exist. They are a reminder that those lands are not easy to take and – moreover – to keep.
A “trap” is an interesting, indeed essential, topic indeed considering the subject. But, first of all, let us ask what exactly constitutes a “conspiracy”? Was Oct 7 a conspiracy, if so, how so precisely? Were the Israeli pager attacks against Hezbollah a conspiracy. I’d argue they fit most classical definitions of conspiracy you can come up with. So there’s this wider matter of particular conspiracies, what constitutes one, and ultimately how far they reach, specially, chronologically, epistemically, etc.
Trump, for his part, has been both subliminally and indeed directly referring to conspiracies for years, before, during, and now after his presidency. But I don’t honestly recall him ever saying something along the lines of: “If I get relected, you, the American people—who it is clear have so little trust in government officials of both parties—will become the beneficiaries of a New Department dedicated to studying in great depth conspiracies perpetrated with your monies but without your knowledge, not a few of which have surely been and continue to be perpetrated against you by the same old elites in both parties.”
And indeed persons within his own party, for example certain senators would be loath to hear such a speech, as literally disarmingly insane! Not because it’s predicated on too many untruths, but because it brings the gross hypocrisy with which the US, and all ‘Great Powers,’ act upon the world stage to light, and the problem lies precisely in highlighting this hypocrisy, not because it isn’t obvious to (silent) majorities in the West already, but because it sanctions (i.e. promotes) a deep reading of all major (and many seemingly non major) events through the prism of the MSM qua conspiracies in themselves.
In other words, there’s a continuity of conspiracy from true causes of events to actual recounting of events in the MSM (which pretends disinterested accuracy), wherein elementary questions are all too frequently not asked either in the immediate reporting following the occurrence of the event, nor moreso (because with much less justification) in the follow up articles relating to a specific event days, months, years after. In other words, the MSM, in conjunction with an Internetic atmosphere that both stimulates conspiracy thinking but simultaneously addles the mind with cognitive-sensorial distractions, constantly subliminally undermines common sense (perhaps selectively but nevertheless all too frequently) where it is most needed.
For example, the phenomenon of Oct 7 has, to be sure, invited much conspiratorial speculation on various Internet fora, almost all without any substance to back it up. Yet, on the other hand, it doesn’t appear that the “enemies” of Israel, aka “Axis of Resistance,” themselves have called into question the essential facts of Oct 7 (in measured contradistinction to Egypt or certain internal critics of the present Israeli regime). To wit, that Hamas didn’t fall into a trap, nor did Israel leave the door ajar as it were, in order to “teach” the thief (or, perhaps “thieving race,” as Netanyahu might say) a lesson. Quite the contrary, the “Axis of Resistance,” including such sophisticated actors as Iran, seem to continue to insist that they might not have directly known about Oct 7 beforehand, but that according to their assessments, it was a genuine act of resistance and that there was no indication it was a preemptive trap by Israel at all. However these aforesaid actors have themselves apparently and genuinely fallen quite recently into the most astounding traps and incontrovertible conspiracies set up by Israel subsequent and arguably consequent to Oct 7. The most specifically astounding and classically (but also) surreally conspiratorial, being the mass detonation of pagers and walkie talkies in Lebanon, followed by the decapitation of Hezbollah in supposedly their deepest and most guarded lairs. Do these specific aforesaid events, which obviously stand as an overt challenge to the itself cliched and incoherent denial of conspiracies in the MSM as a common, even determinative, act of state power, not beg the question of How was it possible for Israel, clearly a master of the conspiratorial craft both at the micro and macro scale (often two sides of the same coin), to not anticipate an Oct 7 event with reasonable efficacy?
This is not to say that Israel did indeed actively or passively facilitate the Oct 7 Hamas attack against itself (although Netanyahu did seem shockingly little concerned with the welfare of the Israeli hostages) and all that that implies: So yes, Hamas was suddenly able to appear out of the blue with motorbikes, trucks, and bulldozers and charge at the security fence without any effective resistance or hardly any casualties. So yes, Hamas militants were able to aerially glide at a slow pace into Israeli territory and unleash mass destruction on a most unfortunately congregated multitude of young disarmed, possibly intoxicated, Israeli men and women who basically stood like sitting ducks less than a mile from the security fence. So yes, all this happened sans the Israeli government being actively or passively culpable because it had sufficient epistemic cognizance so that failure to act could reasonably be discerned as logically inexplicable outside of the aforesaid types of conspiracies.
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On the one hand, Israel’s clearly exceedingly well and long-planned conspiracies against Hamas and especially Hezbollah leave one aghast and immediately asking And yet the government that could do this couldn’t even remotely effectively predict Oct 7? On the other, it is not only the Israeli government itself that denies such morally “unthinkable” conspiracies, nor just the latter seconded reflexively by the Western MSM, but rather it is seemingly it, naturally the US and Western allies, and Western MSM, joined by the Israeli victims/survivors of Oct 7 (both civilian and military), and even more notably, by the “Axis of Resistance,” which either claims, naturally to a point, that it did not fall into an Israeli trap (although Israeli has behaved terribly unjustly and disproportionately), or that it had nothing to do with Oct 7 (Hezbollah and Iran), but had not the slightest doubt it was a genuine act of resistance that did not fall prey to precognizant Israeli subterfuge.
All of which is very striking, that even as the “Axis of Resistance” founders and sinks in Gaza, in Lebanon, even in Iran comparatively speaking, there’s no temptation to exclaim out of genuine conviction or Machiavellian desire to sow doubt: Oct 7 is not what it seems! It was a great betrayal. Israel betrayed itself, and through that the entire world! Yet would that not imply that Hamas betrayed Gaza equally so through its insurmountable naive incompetence or for reasons darker still…As dark as the ocean’s deepest depths. In short, might it be that Oct 7 is an unpronounceable abyss that joins all the antagonistic forces in its tentacles and pulls them deeper into doom?
Posted by: Ludovic | Oct 1 2024 17:18 utc | 184
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