Thursday, December 31, 2020

Crunch Time

Hezbolah is boasting of its loyalty to Iran and ability to hit Israel and determination to hit American targets. Explain to me again why that would not invite an American-backed Israeli campaign to shred Hezbollah?

On the anniversary of Soleimani's death, Hezbollah boasts of its increase in precision weapons capable of hitting Israel:

The Lebanese terrorist group Hizbollah has doubled its arsenal of precision-guided missiles in the past year, its leader has claimed, despite Israel’s efforts to stop it acquiring more weapons.

Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s leader, said he had the capability to strike anywhere in Israel and occupied Palestinian territories using the missiles, which the Iran-backed group has threatened to use against targets such as oil refineries, air force bases and the Israeli military’s headquarters in Tel Aviv.  

In a televised interview, Nasrallah said that Hizbollah would retaliate to any attacks on its strongholds in Lebanon, while the group is also seeking to avenge the killing of two of its members in an Israeli air strike in Syria in August.

He also repeated a vow to take revenge for the killing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander, Qassim Soleimani, by an American drone strike in Iraq on January 3 last year.

But don't you dare say Hezbollah is a pawn of Iran! 

Does Israel go in to occupy the rocket-launching sites shortly after the new year to avoid immediate Biden retaliation? I've been expecting this for some time, but Israel knows that Biden will not be friendly to Israel and may be hostile the way Obama was.

I mean, as long as Hezbollah is telegraphing its intent to hit Israel and America, why wouldn't Trump green light and bolster an Israeli military mission to tear up Iran's vassal force Hezbollah before Biden can marshal full punishment of Israel for getting in the way of Glorious Iran Reset 2.0?

Wouldn't America's armada in the region, which includes a cruise missile sub, a carrier, and a light carrier, plus aircraft--and Israel's nuclear-capable submarine--be a warning to Iran to sit and take it or experience worse than the loss of their Hezbollah proxy?