Israel: It's us or them. We choose them

Israeli activity of late has been unusual and frenetic.

This blog is, quite frankly, stunned at their openness about operations. Also the threat/promise that nations harboring Hezbollah will suffer becuase of it. Just the other day the FM said that Nasrallah will go down in history as the man who destroyed Lebanon.

Remember, Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese government.

The existential conflict looms and the Israelis just aren't going to care about houses, schools, mosques, hospitals.

The Lebanese have been warned. 

We've already speculated that the IDF has mapped out every last Hezbollah rocket location in southern Israel and is prepared to unleash an aerial barrage the likes of which we have not seen since the Desert Storm air war.

Supposition: Israel knows it cannot stop Iran from going nuclear, so it will destroy Hezbollah first.

Usually IDF op codenames have a biblical feel, Ten Plagues*, Cast Lead, etc etc. OK, Thunderbolt at Entebbe. For the coming Lebanon War we suggest Operation Curtis Lemay.

*You'll never top that.

Israel to Hezbollah: Let's Rock

As we suspected, the Israelis were ready to rock:

Israel was ready to launch a massive retaliation against Hezbollah’s precision missile system in Lebanon, and only opted against carrying out that plan because no Israeli soldiers were hurt in a Sunday cross-border attack by the terror group, according to a report Monday evening...According to the report, air force jets were flying over the Mediterranean Sea armed with dozens of tons of explosives in preparation for a counter-strike. The source was quoted as saying the warplanes were ready to bomb many targets linked to Hezbollah’s missile production, and were waiting for a green light from Jerusalem.

If the Israelis knew the names and social media habits of the IRGC men operating in Lebanon, what do you suppose they know about Hezbollah's rocket arsenal? 

Raise your hand if you think IDF artillery has already registered Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. 

We're talking about people that walked out of an Iranian nuclear facility with tons of documents. Think the Israelis know exactly which pressure points to hit now?

After all, the Jew is clever.

Hezbollah Draws Redline

The Times of Israel Reports:

During a television interview with Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, the terror chief repeated a previous threat to fire rockets at Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona and at a huge ammonia storage tank in Haifa.

Hezbollah will not keep to any “red lines” in a future war with Israel, Nasrallah cautioned.

Israel has said much the same thing. As noted here before Israel has basically told Lebanon and the Lebanese people that in a future conflict they will be unconcerned with civilian casualties.

What's promised by both sides goes far beyond what I wrote about in Israel Strikes.

I started Israel Strikes in 2011. Seven years later both sides have surpassed my own apocalyptic vision.

This is one of the reasons why no sequel is in the works.

I had planned a war with Egypt but the circumstances have changed and the country has switched back to military dictatorship.

Also the Israel Strikes still fit into the geopolitics of the region even with the Syrian civil war which had not yet escalated into the nihilistic bloodbath we see today.

We've been overtaken by events as they say.

This is a great time for Israel Strikes and Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea, no?