Israeli Troop Buildup along Lebanon Border: War of Bluff?

More Jewish troops in occupied Palestine are apparently moving to the border with Lebanon in preparation for "what comes next", according to the terrorist settler defense minister Yoav Gallant of the American colony of Israel.  More soldiers will "very soon go into action…so the forces in the north are reinforced".

The Jewish country’s militia chief, Herzi Halevi, had already warned that the risk of war on the northern border had become “much higher”, echoing an earlier deadline set by Israel for the escalating conflict with Hezbollah to be resolved by diplomacy. US envoy Amos Hochstein has been trying to reach a resolution that would involve Hezbollah's retreat north of the Litani river in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territories it occupies in the south. 

Do these declarations aim to scare off Hezbollah and force it to choose the diplomatic path? Or do they really reflect a determination by the Jewish colony to wage an all-out war against Lebanon with the objective of eliminating the so-called Hezbollah threat it has itself carefully nurtured over the decades to maintain a climate of instability and a source of pretexts to interfere and steal land?

Neither the Iranian militia Hezbollah is likely to retreat north of the Litani, as this would signal an end to its fake "resistance", nor does the American Jewish colony of Israel seem willing to end its silly occupation of tiny spots inside Lebanon with which it maintains instability by providing Hezbollah with the justification of its so-called "resistance".  Neither side seems willing to end the charade that has been going on since the late 1960s and which has led to the disintegration of the Lebanese state. Perhaps the West in collusion with Syria, Iran and Israel wants to solve the burdensome Palestinian question over the ashes of Lebanon? 

For several decades, the West granted Syria a free hand to occupy and sow discord in Lebanon and undermine the Lebanese state using Palestinian and Iranian militias. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the brutal Syrian occupation and its repeated indiscriminate shelling of Lebanese cities were deemed a "factor of stability" by the US. When the barely emerging Hezbollah blew up and killed 241 US Marines in Beirut in October 1983, Ronald Reagan packed up his remaining men and ran away instead of staying and fighting the still small and weak Hezbollah, and in so doing handed Lebanon over to Syria on a silver platter. Similarly, Israel withdrew from the Lebanese south in 2000 but delivered the area to its archenemy Hezbollah instead of coordinating with, and handing it to, the legitimate Lebanese armed forces and the UNIFIL contingent. If the US and Israel really wanted to pacify the Lebanese south, they had plenty of opportunities to do so. But they consistently chose to maintain Lebanon as a war arena for every regional Jewish, Sunni and Shiite theocracies to settle scores among themselves.

The US-backed Jewish militia in occupied Palestine and the Iranian-backed Shiite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon have been exchanging fire since the savagery against Gaza broke out on October 8. Now that both sides have warmed up, the stage is set for a major blowup that might involve major destruction and civilian deaths in both Israel and Lebanon. If the Israelis choose a land incursion into south Lebanon, the Lebanese should prepare themselves to permanently lose the entire sector south of the Litani which includes the major city of Tyre. For all the Arab-Israeli wars of the past 6 decades, Lebanon has been the only one not to see any part of its territory annexed by Israel. But this time, Israel's savagery hubris might lead it to creating a new "fact on the ground" by stealing the Lebanese south and settling it with more foreign Jews. A permanent displacement of the mostly Shiite population out of the Lebanese south would not be such a bad thing for Israel after all.

Worries of a regional war are growing by the day. Beyond Gaza, Jewish violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has increased dramatically in recent months with both the Jewish militia and the illegal Jewish terrorist settlers raiding refugee camps and killing and arresting thousands of Palestinian civilians on a daily basis. The US seems interested in another adventure in the Middle East, and takes no action to prevent being dragged into the conflict by its own land-stealing Jewish colony in Palestine. After the drone attack against the US military base on the Syrian-Jordanian border that killed three American soldiers and injured dozens, Biden is enjoying the process of choosing a target for revenge. 

The Jewish army's chief, Herzi Halevi, warned that the risk of war along the Lebanese border had increased.  “I don’t know when the war in the north is, I can tell you that the likelihood of it happening in the coming months is much higher than it was in the past,” Mr Halevi said.

Hard as it says it is trying to prevent an outbreak of war on regional fronts surrounding its Jewish colony, it looks as though the US is eagerly preparing to become directly involved. While conveniently opposing any ceasefire in the Jewish-led genocide of Gaza's Palestinian population, Biden claims to be under domestic pressure to respond forcefully to the drone attack on the Tower 22 American base inside Jordan next to the Syrian border. With the US presidential elections in view, Biden cannot afford to appear weak. He already has lost significant support among his own Democrat base for his callousness and impotence at calling for a ceasefire and ending the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza and West Bank Palestinians. And as is usually the case with the Americans, they always choose war as an exit strategy: Imagine the unity that Biden will muster in his deeply divided country if he goes to war. Defeating Trump in November might require such a move regardless of the consequences.