Judea Snarls–Israel Should Consider a Ground Invasion of Lebanon

Hezbollah is just as dedicated to Israel’s destruction and to October 7-style atrocities as Hamas, but more lethal. Its increasing missile and drone attacks, and Lebanon’s passivity, justify broad retaliation by Israel in self-defense

ed note–as always, L&G, lots to ‘unpack’ in this one.

Firsto, let us start with a lil’ ‘bio info’ on the deranged Hebraic warlord who authored the piece below–

‘David Daoud is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) focusing on Hezbollah, Israel, and Lebanon issues. He also holds a JD with a concentration on international law and the laws of armed conflict.’

Now, for those ‘not in the know’, the FDD–‘Foundation for the Defense of Democracies’–is a nest of Israeli spies similar to those other ‘thinktanks’ set up just prior to/after Israel’s terrorist attacks on 9/11 with the task of seducing the American public into supporting Israel’s planned-for destruction of Iraq and the rest of the Middle East.

The FDD, for whom our Hebraic warlord works, is cut from the same cloth, and whose ‘contributing members’ intersect with those other aforementioned ‘thinktanks’ cooked up for Iraq’s destruction.

The FDD is primarily focused on the destruction of Iran and uses the word ‘democracy’ as the necessary breath mint in hiding the stench of war and destruction that is its primary objective.

Now, the astute and up-to-date reader on all things related to Judaic intrigue and of Judea’s eternal war against Gentiledom will of course react by asking the obligatory question–

‘BFD, another Jew beating the drums for war against a nation that he/she–as a follower of Torah Judah-ism–is institutionally/constitutionally driven to destroy…’

A perfectly valid response unimpeachable in its essence.

What makes this case different is the outlet on which it appears–

HAARETZ…

–a ‘leftie’ source, chock-full of ‘Good Jews’ of the ‘progressive’ persuasion who operate under the pretenses of being anti-war, anti-Judaic chauvinism and of having been ‘cured’ of the baked-into-the-DNA hatred of Gentiles that is as much intrinsic to Judah-ism as rows of bone-crushing/flesh-tearing sharp teeth are intrinsic to crocodiles.

The point being ladies and Gentile-men, that dealing with those of the Hebraic pedigree is always the equivalent of walking through a minefield and hoping you get to the other side without losing either a limb or your life, because irrespective of what side of the political spectrum they claim to hail–left/right, religious/secular–the one thing that unites them all–besides their innate hatred of all things Gentile– is that catchy little rhyme which we here at this humble little informational endeavor coined many years ago, which is that–

FISH SWIM, BIRDS FLY, AND JEWS LIE

Now, as to the piece itself, what every Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to know is that this is the ‘prepping’ of what it is that the organized forces of anti-Gentilism are planning, which in essence can be described as ‘Gaza Genocide, Pt II’, but this time, in Lebanon, to be followed up by ‘repeat performances’ in–

Syria…

Egypt…

Jordan…

Iraq, Pt II…

and then, ‘la enchilada grandissima’–

Iran.

Any why, ladies and Gentile-men?

Because this is what the followers of Torah Judah-ism have been planning for the last 3,000+ years, to wit–

‘Every place whereupon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea, shall be your border…’ –Book of Deuteronomy

David Daoud for Haaretz

No one is saying so out loud, but Israel and Lebanon have been at war since October 8, with Hezbollah once again dragging an unwilling Beirut into Iran’s long battle against the Jewish state.

In July 2006, Hezbollah – without Beirut’s approval – attacked Israel unprovoked and sparked the destructive Second Lebanon War. When the war ended, the UN Security Council responded by adopting Resolution 1701 which called for the banning of militias from the Israeli-Lebanese border region and end the lawlessness that gave Hezbollah free rein.

But Lebanon refuses to implement its terms. Hezbollah’s unilateral and unauthorized entry into the Gaza-Israel war has highlighted the need to rectify Beirut’s dereliction – leaving Israel as the likeliest party to do so, and with a legal right to enforce its terms.

The main responsibility of Resolution 1701’s rests on Lebanon. But it’s been shirking its responsibilities ever since it was passed, instead adopting an idiosyncratic interpretation of it that excludes Hezbollah from its ambit, effectively eviscerating 1701’s spirit and its demands that Lebanon disarm all militias, exercise full and exclusive control over all its territory, and establish between the Blue Line the provisional border and the Litani River ‘an area free of armed personnel, assets and weapons other than those of the Government of Lebanon and of UNIFIL’ — the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, peacekeepers authorized to prevent conflict across the Israeli-Lebanese border.

We see the Hezbollah aggression in the firing rockets and missiles at civilian homes and army units in northern Israel. The fighting has intensified in recently, leading to a growing death and injury toll on both sides.

These attacks have killed eight soldiers and four civilians, and wounded dozens more. Hezbollah has also facilitated rocket attacks and incursions by the Lebanese franchises of its Resistance Axis allies Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from south Lebanon. On Thursday the Israeli army intercepted a drone attack near the northern city of Haifa.

It is increasingly hard to dismiss these attacks as ‘mere frontier incidents’ or border skirmishes.

Cumulatively, they have come to resemble an ‘armed attack’ justifying broad Israeli retaliation. In Lebanon reportedly over 120 Hezbollah members have been killed along with 17 civilians.

Tensions are especially high this week after Iran accused Israel of assassinating a top commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Sayyed Razi Mousavi. The head of the IRGC has vowed to avenge his death with the ‘eradication of the Zionist regime.’

The fighting has highlighted the need to rectify Beirut’s dereliction – leaving Israel as the likeliest party to do so, and with a legal right to enforce its terms. This could mean Israel will have no choice but to try to push Hezbollah back beyond the Litani River.

With Lebanon unwilling and unable to act, Israel must contend alone with the perpetually growing threat on its northern border from Hezbollah – as dedicated as Hamas to Israel’s ultimate destruction and committing October 7-style atrocities, but with far better capabilities.

Lebanese non-performance stems in equal parts from intransigence and inability. Since 2006, Hezbollah has been too preoccupied — with a domestic crisis in Lebanon, involvement in Syria’s civil war since 2011, and now navigating Lebanon’s ongoing economic collapse – to initiate war with Israel, dampening any Lebanese sense of urgency to act against the group.

Lebanon’s passivity also stems from its makeup. The country is built and governed around ‘confessionalist’ – or sectarian – system. This system is effectively feudalistic, devolving each sect’s allotment of the share of power upon sub-sectarian representatives or parties.

Beirut only makes decisions by the consensus of these sub-sectarian groups, which are obliged to count Hezbollah as a critical political and social element because it retains massive popular support.

In a country of just over four million citizens, the group won 356,112 of votes in Lebanon’s May 2022 legislative elections – the best gauge available, despite its imprecision – making it parliament’s largest by 150,000 votes, though not by seats.

Beirut therefore can’t ignore Hezbollah, which has guaranteed this by using its vast arsenal against political opponents, and would need the group’s unlikely consent to disarm it. Lebanon would otherwise be inviting civil war – a dynamic making 1701’s central operative clauses unworkable, and any diplomatic efforts to induce Beirut to implement them futile.

For Lebanon, the immense cost of doing so will always appear to outweigh any benefits. UNIFIL can’t rectify the situation, despite its original mandate being repeatedly upgraded to allow full freedom of movement and authority to conduct unhindered and unannounced patrols in south Lebanon.

Since February 2011, Hezbollah has been threatening and training to ‘liberate the Galilee’ – ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’s’ operational blueprint, imparted – along with preparation and training – to the Shiite organization’s Palestinian partners.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah hinted to his organization’s intention to commit their own series of October 7-style massacres against Israelis last month, to ‘to ‘win[..] incrementally,’ until the ‘battle [to destroy Israel…] reach[es] the phase of victory by fatal blow’ – echoing Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas politburo member.

An Israeli ground invasion at least pushing Hezbollah north of the Litani River would neutralize this threat. It would also allow Israel to degrade the broader threat posed by Hezbollah’s 40,000+ fighting force and diverse arsenal – an array of 150,000+ projectiles of various ranges, degrees of precision, and striking power, coupled with a domestic production capability.

It would further deprive the broader ‘Resistance Axis’ of its arguably most critical front – decades in the making and increasingly interlinked with Iranian-controlled Syria – for attacking Israel now or in a future ‘big regional war.’ Finally, it would also irreparably dent Iran’s regional expansionism and send a forceful message of deterrence to Tehran.

But such an Israeli undertaking would be highly costly and destructive for Israel. Reaching the Litani would require an invasion far deeper than the Second Lebanon War’s minor incursions past the Blue Line. Hezbollah will also increase tenfold the daily number of rockets fired at Israel as compared to the 2006 conflict.

This price, coupled with American pressure against Israeli escalation against Hezbollah, are temporarily staying Israel’s hand as Jerusalem indulges American and French efforts to peacefully obtain Hezbollah’s relocation north of the Litani River.

If those efforts prove fruitless – as they likely will – Israel would have the right to launch a ground invasion in self-defense, moving beyond its ongoing tit-for-tat exchanges with Hezbollah, without committing a crime of aggression.

On November 3, Nasrallah himself declared Hezbollah’s full ‘entry of the [Gaza-Israel] battle on October 8…when the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon began it operations.’

Nasrallah reemphasized this the following week, stressing Hezbollah’s escalating attacks had caused Israeli ‘soldier and civilian casualties,’ and that ‘this [northern] front will remain a[n open] pressure point.’

Nasrallah has fallen silent since then, but Hezbollah’s guns have not.

But as he said, ‘the battlefield will speak…not our words.’ Since Hezbollah fired its first unprovoked shots in October, it has claimed daily responsibility for launching over 1,000 projectiles into Israel.

Some 60,000 Israeli residents of the north who live within five kilometers of the Lebanon border have been evacuated from their homes since October 7. A group of them sent a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden saying the White House should give ‘its full support to the government of Israel to act with the necessary force’ to protect Israel’s north.

Certainly, the accumulated chain of Hezbollah recent attacks on Israel exceeds – in intensity, scope, and casualties – Hezbollah’s July 12, 2006 incursion which triggered Israeli self-defense and sparked the Second Lebanon War.

Nasrallah has even recognized, considering the intensity of Hezbollah’s attacks, that Israel’s preoccupation with Gaza alone was sparing Hezbollah the full brunt of Israeli military retaliation.

The international community recognized the need to end Hezbollah’s threat to Israel almost two decades ago.

But time is increasingly proving that silencing Hezbollah’s guns, and ending its broader threat, will only be possible through direct Israeli military action broader than the IDF’s current limited counterstrikes.

As ongoing diplomatic efforts and international mechanisms inevitably falter against Lebanon’s impotence and intransigence and Hezbollah’s lawlessness, Israel’s justification to push Hezbollah beyond the Litani River and create a buffer zone down to the Blue Line increasingly appears to be the option proportional to the threat – if not the only option available.