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richardstevenhack's avatar

Gideon Levy is usually spot on - and the passage cited by Crooke is how I see it as well.

Hezbollah appears to be stepping up its involvement slightly, as it apparently has stated it will take action as a result of the deaths of three Hezbollah members, and they have apparently fired some rockets at Israeli encampments. I do agree that they view this as a possible trap, as do I.

The sequence is pretty clear:

1) Israel needs to deal with Hamas first, as they are the weakest enemy in the region;

2) then Israel has to deal with Hezbollah - and only with US direct assistance, even if not including boots on the ground;

3) Israel may or may not deal with Syria with or without US assistance - the neocons would like this as lateral escalation against Russia;

4) Israel starts a war with Iran to which the US will take over the bulk of the effort.

Without following these steps, Israel and the US neocons can not get a war with Iran going without Israel taking the brunt of the economic impact as a result of Hezbollah being able to deal serious damage to the Israeli economy.

The question arises as to whether Israel can succeed in dealing with Hamas without taking an equivalent economic hit, as noted in the article. We'll have to wait and see, I guess. I can't make that prediction.

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Loon's avatar

Can’t imagine the Muslims saying goodbye to Al-Aqsa.

Also the USA will certainly socially plummet deeper into its Death Culture Cave orchestrated by its corrupt leaders to its own impoverishment.

It’s amazing this crazy intolerance has gone on for so long without one peaceful lesson learned .

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