The United States has given Lebanon approximately $400 million over the past year to purchase arms, despite Israel’s objections. France has also sent a great deal of weaponry to Lebanon, including advanced anti-tank missiles.
And now Haarez reports France to send Lebanon 100 anti-tank missiles
A French official tells AFP news agency that France will transfer the arms to Lebanon by the end of February, without preconditions.
To my mind, when the next war starts, Israel will not rely on air power alone to stop the rockets. It will massively invade Lebanon to occupy the country as soon as possible and thus stop the rockets. These anti-tank missiles are an added concern.
Better still, the blood can be sprayed by using aircraft used to douse forest fires Let it rain pigs blood.
As Yamit says Business is business Arnold Harris, it would be a lot better to send three dozen UAVs with sliced pig’s blood in bags that can self-destruct on impact all across Lebanon, particularly near Hezbollah. Then the IDF can go in. HAriri is running scared trying to save the Christians, so he plays dhimmi very well.
Your points:
may be ineffective as Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and Lebanon know this is their last call. They simply cannot live upto any peace agreements. Iran has to be thus check-mated.
As Sabril says, taking Damascus on a first-strike surprise basis will get the message over to Hezbollah and Iran. The IAF can do so within three-five minutes from northern bases. A seaborne commando unit needs to be ready to move to the palace after that. Bashar Assad should then be immmediately placed on TV only with his undershirt and underwear and this transmitted to the Arab world. Psychology will work again as ‘shame’ has a powerful effect on the Arab world’s capabilities.
Business? The American Tax payer is paying the monetary bill and we Jews will pay it in our blood and treasure. That said you should have no objection if we supply everything we got with China and Cuba and even the Taliban if they would agree to buy. After all business is business.
When the U.S. gives Lebanon $400 million to buy arms, its really the U.S. taxpayers who are subsidizing the weapons manufacturers. It’s a business deal far more than it is a strategic security, geo-political issue. All that strategic stuff is just a smoke screen.
If there is another war, use hollow point bullets filled with pigs blood, then see how anxious the muslims would be to fight!!!
Quite right Yamit and Arnold. Another possibility is the interception and sinking of the delivery mechanism (ie: ships). If you think the flotilla incident brought everyone’s level of batshit craziness to a peak, think of what something like that would do.
The best objective, other than saving Jewish lives, is to get up the noses of those who are most concerned about Israel’s “intransigence”.
French and American military aid to Lebanon cannot be excused as payoff for the free flow of oil to the west. They have none. It is also obvious that Hizbullah can take over the country by force whenever they choose. One need not be a military expert to know that the Lebanese Army will not be a match to Syria either. Therefore a quick glance at Lebanon’s neighbors to see who might those weapons be used against and the Southern Lebanese neighbor, Israel fits the conclusion.
Therefore America and France knowing full well the high probability of another Lebanon Israeli conflict are arming or future military opponents so as to better kill Jews and Israelis.
I see no other rational explanation, especially since they are being given gratis.
In this regional and global chess match between Israel and the world especially the west, Israel needs to meet the challenge by checking their queen and threatening a checkmate of their king (oil)!
Israel must make it clear to all concerned that the first rockets and missiles fired at Israel will trigger automatically a tactical nuclear response. We should add for the benefit of Europe and America that such an attack will force Israel no choice but to deny the west of their oil lifeblood. He who understands, understands what I am saying. Would America then provide a nuclear umbrella to Lebanon and the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia? That could be their only defensive move.
Israel should make it clear that our civilian population will not be allowed to be put at risk or Israel blackmailed without we responding with the maximum of our capabilities to prevent such a condition.
The life of a single Jew is worth every Arab and every Frenchman.
Next time in Lebanon, if indeed there is to be a next time in Lebanon, the government of Israel should never again withdraw Zahal from any Lebanese territory south of the Litani river gorge. Moreover, it seems obvious that no Israeli armed forces should be withdrawn at all from any part of that country without the following taking place:
1) There must be a viable government in place in that country which can assume responsibility for the actions of all armed factions in the country, including as especially the Hezbollah gang so heavily armed by Iran. If the Lebanese government truly represents the entirety of that country, including those parts of it not controlled by Hezbollah, then that government must assume responsibility for all actions against a neighboring state initiated by any such armed gang. Barring that, Lebanon should be regarded as just another Somalia, characterized by multiple contendants for who shall control the armed power of the state.
2) Whichever armed faction controls Lebanon must agree to a permanent treaty of peace with Israel, re-establishing permanent peaceful relations, trade and other characteristics of countries at peace with each other.
3) Lebanon and its backers must assume financial obligation to pay for any damages to Israel caused by any armed gang quartered on its territory, in case of any attack against Israel initiated by one of these gangs.
Zahal has fought its way before into the very streets of Lebanon’s capital city. All of us know for a fact that there are strong Christian Lebanese factions still in place in part of Beirut and the lands north of there. If Israel is compelled to do that again, there must no caving into international pressure to retreat without creating a real peace. Then and only then, with those Christian forces see fit to ally themselves with Israel, and start taking back their country. As for whatever remains of the Sabras and Shatillas of that country, this time I would order Zahal to empty them out, put them aboard armored buses with bars on the windows and doors, transport them to the Syrian border, and expel them across that border, along with the UNO employees who have supposedly been responsible for keeping the peace in these Arab pest-holes for the past 62 years. .
If in Israel, the govenment had a responsibility in 1948-1949 for insisting on a single armed force for their new state, and in attacking other Jews, including the crew of the supply ship Altalena, in order to maintain that monopoly of national armed force, then so do does every Arab or Moslem state which uses their sovereignty as a fig-leaf to protect terrorist gangs.
If there is in fact a ha’Shem who stands guard over the Jewish nation, then I think he/she/it must have set up these blatherskite Arab regimes as open invitations for Israel to expand its national borders against them. Any of you want to argue with me on halachic grounds? Suit yourself. But I have made my case.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
I’m not a military man, but I think Israel needs to consider fighting the problem at its source, i.e. taking Damascus. It’s only 30 miles from the Golan Heights.