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Hezbollah claims that its attack on Israel on the morning of August 25 was a “success.” Hezbollah released a statement insisting that “by God’s grace, the first stage has been fully completed with complete success. This stage involved targeting Israeli barracks and sites to facilitate the passage of attack drones towards their intended destination deep within the entity [Israel]. The drones passed, praise be to God, as planned. The number of Katyusha rockets fired so far has exceeded 320 rockets directed at the enemy’s positions.”
We all know better. None of the eleven military bases that Hezbollah claimed to have hit, including the headquarters of the intelligence Unit 8200 at Glilot, were damaged in the slightest. That’s because the IDF took to heart the wisdom of the passage in the Talmud, that says “if someone says he is coming to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” That’s what the IDF did, unleashing a terrific preemptive attack on Hezbollah’s weapons before 5 a.m. Instead of the 6,000 rockets Hezbollah had ready to go on their launchers, only about 200 were left intact after the IDF’s preemptive attack, and those few hundred — closer to 200 than to the 320 Hezbollah claimed to have launched — that were let loose on the Jewish state did little damage to Israel. Iron Dome again performed spectacularly in intercepting incoming rockets. The result was that while nearly 5,800 Hezbollah rockets and launchers were destroyed, in Israel only some houses in northern Israel were slightly damaged. As for casualties, one Israeli sailor was killed from shrapnel when an Iron Dome missile intercepted an incoming rocket.
More on how those wonder-workers at the IDF meticulously planned for what they finally did before dawn on August 25 can be found here: “Hezbollah still in shock, assessing damage from Israel’s pre-emptive strike – IDF Col.,” by Avi Ashkenazi, Jerusalem Post, August 27, 2024:
Colonel Anan Abbas, Head of Control at the Northern Command’s central operations room, revealed in an interview with Maariv on Tuesday that the recent operation against Hezbollah required months of meticulous preparation. “Hezbollah is trying to assess the extent of the damage they’ve sustained,” he said.
“We attacked thousands of launchers and crippled Hezbollah’s capabilities, and our operations [haven’t finished yet]. It appears Hezbollah is still in shock. They’re trying to comprehend the extent of the damage inflicted on them, and they’ll fully understand it in the coming days. Right now, they’re just beginning to grasp what happened and how it unfolded,” Abbas explained.
Earlier in the week, the IDF emphasized that while the operation was primarily tactical, it sent powerful signals to Hezbollah—messages that could potentially lead to broader strategic shifts.
“It seems Hezbollah was genuinely surprised,” noted Abbas. “Their shock comes from the sheer number of planes we deployed simultaneously, striking an overwhelming number of targets in a very short time. They’re also astonished by the precision of our strikes—how we managed to accurately hit so many objectives, neutralize their assets, and do so without harming civilians or causing collateral damage.”…
Even now, Hezbollah has still not grasped the full extent of the damage done to it by the IDF. It cannot quite believe that nearly 6,000 rockets were destroyed within an hour; that more than 100 planes managed to fly all at once over Lebanon, conduct their pinpoint-precision airstrikes, and return, without any damage to a single plane, back to Israel. After this colossal defeat, Hezbollah might want to reconsider its policy of send rockets into northern Israel, expecting only a tit-for-tat response, given this display of the IDF’s terrifying prowess and what it may do again. Nasrallah must be thinking, “it makes better sense for us to stop our own attacks, let 80,000 internally displaced Israelis return to their homes in the north, and 70,000 of our own people, who were displaced from southern Lebanon, return to their homes. For now, we can’t afford another massive Israeli attack that could come at any moment. And Israel only wants its people to be able to return home. So let’s give them what they want — trade quiet for quiet. For now, the IDF doesn’t leave us much choice.”
Iran is the entity that will have to reconsider the value of its surrogates. Israel’s success will push Iran to become a full-fledged nuclear power quickly. This debacle in Lebanon merely reinforces their view that destroying Israel will have to be accomplished with a bright flash and shockwave. Hezbollah will continue to threaten Israel because that is the major source of their income. The far more important question is how will the US administration and its deep state players re-evaluate the situation. The goal of forcing subservience upon Israel will require far more force and far more distance than the current circumstances. The US may now actively encourage the UN Security Coucil to intervene on the ground to force Israeli compliance.
On top of that a Harris regime will definitely use the UN to attempt to bring Israel to heal…and by heal what the left really means is, to an end.
The Biden regime, via the actual people controlling the Presidency (ie, not Joe Biden) have already attempted to use funding of Iran as a tool against Israel and so far have failed to stop Israel from defending itself.
Also, I think that maybe this time Israel has finally got the message that no one is coming to save them other than themselves. And they will need to rely on themselves a heck of a lot more come November if Democrats are able to steal yet another election!
My hope is Israel will not comply and put an end to the vicious islamists.
Of course the US limits Israel to doing this only at the last minute and only up to a point to mow the grass just as many Israeli officials embrace
“Hezbollah claims that its attack on Israel on the morning of August 25 was a “success.” Hezbollah released a statement insisting that “by God’s grace, the first stage has been fully completed with complete success.”
If they mean God’s grace was needed for them to fulfill his wishes, They were RIGHT! THEY HAVE BEEN GETTING THEIR BUTS KICKED SINCE! And if Biden would MYOB this fiasco would have ended long ago!
The problem is the tunnels.
Flood them with sea water and sewage.
Fill them with CO
I had the thought that playing piped music down the tunnels might be quite effective at demoralising the occupants. After all, music is supposed to be “haram” in Islam. And, oh, oops, the IDF didn’t know that one of the CDs was someone’s favourite cantor….
They were already filled with sewage
Natural gas and a apark seem appropriate
Arabs never learn.
They only “learn” anything when it’s severely beaten into them.
Why does the independent state of Israel depend on the good will of the US?
Appealing to the Jew Haters, aren’t you.
Not at all. Just a valid question. Why DO Israel, in view of the current treatment of them by our current admin, continue to even consider the “goodwill of he US”?
They made the perfect call, launching that preemptive strike a 0500 insead of waitig for them tto launch heir 2000 rockets at 0600. IDF once more stepping up to the plate and knocking i out of the park. LET the US criticise them….
Let dopey Joey, or Cackles, or the kinyun say what they will .THOSE folks are nt the ones gonna suffer and die.
Well he is appealing to you, isn’t he?
Biden and Harris, and Democrats, have done a bang up job of forcing Israel to finally open its eyes to the fact that the only people who can save them are themselves. It appears that Israel no longer listens to Democrats, and for good reason.
So in a perverse way, you very well may get your ideal outcome here of Israel no longer depending on the US for support.
The downside is that once again, Democrat America has shown its “old” allies that American support is no longer available (or desirable as there seem to be far to many negative conditions attached).
Because there was a time when the US had the sense to know that Islamic extremism needed keeping in check, and Israel is on the spot.
Same reason Great Britain and Germany do. Oh, and Ukraine.
“Trade quiet for quiet”! The Israeli version is people living in PEACE and enjoying a NORMAL, PRODUCTIVE life. The muslim version is secretly digging MORE TUNNELS, building MORE ROCKETS, and HIDING behind WOMEN and CHILDREN! The ONLY TRULY QUIET TERRORIST is a ROOM TEMPERATURE TERRORIST!!
Imagine what the USA could do to stop the terrorism – IF we fought to WIN!!
Decapitate Decapitate and Decapitate ….
Harris/Walz = Zyklon B for Israel.
Israel must be ready to nuke significant strategic and military assets in Iran if the Democrats win the election.