Wake up, Americans!
As northern Israel burns, your government is throwing the Jewish state to the wolves
Yesterday, northern Israel was in flames. An enormous barrage of Hezbollah drones set fire to numerous areas in the Galilee. You can see the massive scale of the conflagration from video footage here, here and here.
This was a serious escalation of the war that Iran-backed Hezbollah has been waging upon northern Israel ever since the October 7 Hamas pogrom. Every day there have been attacks with rockets, drones and anti-tank missiles, causing tens of thousands of Israeli residents of these most northerly towns to be displaced from their homes for the past eight months — refugees in their own country.
There are around 150,000 Hezbollah missiles pointing at Israel from southern Lebanon, all embedded around and underneath apartment buildings, schools and hospitals — just like in Gaza. But these missiles are far more powerful and can reach the whole of Israel. If Hezbollah unleash their full might, the resulting carnage in Israel will make the attacks from Gaza pale by comparison.
This sustained Hezbollah onslaught shows that the war against Israel is not being waged merely by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. It’s a war of extermination against Israel by Iran and its proxies on no fewer than seven fronts. The attacks by Hezbollah and the threat of far worse from those forces are intolerable.
But if you’re reading this in Britain or America, the chances are you’ll have read virtually nothing about any of this. I can’t see any coverage of these terrible fires in any mainstream media outlets other than a solitary mention today by CNN.
The escalation means that Israel will have to deal with this once and for all. Israelis are bracing for an imminent major war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Until now, Israel’s defence forces have been responding to these attacks in limited fashion in order to avoid a major escalation, which could see thousands of Israeli civilians killed. But no country can live like this, and Israel has done so for eight months.
Yet if it now takes the gloves off in Lebanon, stand by for hysterical condemnation by the western media which has paid virtually no attention to the months of Hezbollah attacks — and consequently will viciously defame Israel once again as the aggressive warmonger, in yet another big lie designed to demonise, delegitimise and destroy it. While Israel fights for its life, the western media carries out the strategy designed to annihilate it by the enemies of humanity.
The carnage in northern Israel must also be laid at the door of the Biden administration. Shortly after the October 7 pogrom in southern Israel, following which Hezbollah started attacking the north, Israel was about to launch a pre-emptive strike on the Iranian backed “Party of God” to neutralise the fearsome threat from Lebanon — but the Biden administration forced it to abort that mission.
Since then, the US has persistently undermined Israel’s attempt to neutralise Hamas in Gaza. The perfidy of the Biden administration in its attempt to ensure that Hamas survives and Israel is left unable to defend itself against genocidal attack has now reached yet another crescendo.
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