Netanyahu is getting ready to invade Lebanon
Israeli military says it’s completed ‘another phase of the northern command’s readiness for war’
The Israeli military says it has completed another stage in preparing for a possible war on its northern front with Lebanon and Syria. It said that over the past few days, another phase of the northern command’s readiness for war was completed.
The phase was focused on “operational emergency storages for a broad mobilisation” of Israeli troops when required, the military said in a statement titled: “Readiness for the Transition from Defence to Offence.”
Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and Israel have been trading fire across the border since October 8, the day after Hamas’s October 7 attack and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in response.
In recent months, the intensity and frequency of cross-border attacks have increased, as have fears of a regional conflagration.
The ‘end of the beginning’ for Netanyahu
I’ve been arguing for a while that for US President Biden, this is the beginning of the end of this war. Six months later, too long, it needs to wind down. It’s the beginning of the end.
For Netanyahu, it’s still the end of the beginning. This is the stage where the destruction has taken place, the annihilation of much of Gaza and a lot of its population. Then there is the attack, which now Israel talks about, of turning the defensive into an offensive in Lebanon. So, for Netanyahu and his government, this is just the end of the beginning, and hence, we’re going to see a lot of movements back and forth.
For the time being, it’s clear that, for Netanyahu, there’s a gathering of the storm, even the perfect storm, over his government in terms of the attack on international aid, in terms of the Iranians vowing revenge, in terms of domestic pressure, in terms of huge American momentum towards pressure, in terms of world fatigue with Israel, in terms of resistance in Gaza.
Fully counting on dragging the USA into a war against Iran as well
Israeli military ‘can handle Iran’: Halevi
Israel’s Chief of General Staff Herzi Halevi says its military can handle any Iranian threat.
“We can act forcefully against Iran in places near and far. We are cooperating with the United States and with strategic partners in the region,” Halevi said in a televised statement.
Tensions between Israel and Iran escalated last week after Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on April 1. Earlier, we reported that Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, the Iranian army’s chief of staff, had said that Tehran would choose the time and manner of its response to the bombing.
