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| Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by CoronaVirusPro: 2:57am On Jan 08 |
A secret assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington has found that Israeli forces would find it “difficult to succeed” in a two-front war against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have engaged in tit-for-tat exchanges of fire with Hezbollah militants since the start of the war with Hamas in October. Initially limited in scale, Hezbollah's pounding of an Israeli intelligence base with missiles on Saturday in response to Israel assassinating a senior Hamas leader in Beirut several days earlier, has marked a significant escalation. While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to make a “fundamental change” to the security situation along the Lebanese border, American officials have privately warned him against opening a second front, the Washington Post reported. “If it were to do so, a new secret assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) found that it will be difficult for Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to succeed because its military assets and resources would be spread too thin given the conflict in Gaza,” citing two anonymous officials and a classified report by the DIA. Israel’s military is relatively small in peacetime, relying on reservists to swell its ranks in times of conflict. The IDF called up around 360,000 reservists when the war with Hamas began, although a senior Israeli official told Reuters last week that an undisclosed number would soon be released from duty. Amid this drawdown, Hezbollah has been open about its role in the conflict. The group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, claimed in November that his forces had tied up around a third of Israel’s troops along the Israel-Lebanon border, preventing them from being deployed to Gaza. He added that Hezbollah’s continued skirmishes with the IDF were causing “a state of anxiety, anticipation, panic, and fear among the enemy's political and military leadership.” Multiple US officials told the Washington Post that they fear Netanyahu may attack Hezbollah in order to save his political career. The Israeli leader faced widespread protests before the start of the war, and was criticized afterwards for failing to pre-empt Hamas’ October 7 assault, which left around 1,200 Israelis dead. “A full-scale conflict between Israel and Lebanon would surpass the bloodshed of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war on account of Hezbollah’s substantially larger arsenal of long-range and precision weaponry,” the paper stated, citing officials who also warned that the militant group could launch missile attacks on Israeli petrochemical plants and nuclear reactors. Washington also fears that such a conflict could draw in Iran – Hezbollah’s principal backer – and eventually the US, the paper’s sources said. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Jordan on Sunday, ahead of visits to Israel, the West Bank, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. “We have an intense focus on preventing this conflict from spreading,” he said, before meeting Jordanian King Abdullah II and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi. https://www.rt.com/news/590240-israel-lose-war-hezbollah/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/07/israel-us-intelligence-hezbollah-gaza-conflict/ |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by DonFreshmoney(m): 3:09am On Jan 08 |
World War 3 is coming... stay tuned |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by incandescentena: 4:36am On Jan 08 |
Hezbollah will never win Israel 3 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by alna: 5:26am On Jan 08 |
Even with the west by their side ? 1 Like |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Floky215: 6:34am On Jan 08 |
What hezbollah would get is a scorched earth carpet bombing...just like gaza, civilians would suffer but then again looking at it from another angle, it could be a bait for hezbollah to chew and get hooked...!! Their sympathisers would be happy now USA they so much love to hate has spokek and they relied on it and spreading the news everywhere...!! Just like the isis operation, they would draw the hezbollah in and go for a final kill...!! We all just hope Hezbollah make the the mistake and engage fully...!!  3 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Floky215: 6:35am On Jan 08 |
incandescentena: It's a bait.. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Dandal: 6:43am On Jan 08 |
incandescentena: Only if wishes were horses If the Israeli army can’t withstand underground urban warfare against a relatively poorly equipped resistance force made up of various factions inside Gaza, how can they defeat a well equipped and battle hardened forces like Hezbollah?? Not to mention the fact that in 2006 Hezbollah wotorized Israel in 2006 War. Even Israel's allies who are economical with the truth, called the 2006 war a "draw". So ask yourself, If a soccer match between Bayelsa United and Real Madrid ended in a draw, who among the two would you say has a bragging right? 4 Likes |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Iamanoited: 7:21am On Jan 08 |
HEZBOLLAH IS MORE UPSETTING THAN HAMAS. 1 Like |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Obiedun(m): 7:39am On Jan 08 |
Israel go destroy that country |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by misreal(m): 8:19am On Jan 08 |
Now they are praising hezbollah the same way they praised hamas. Very soon,we will hear of another genocide in Lebanon. This people wrongly assume that israel went to sleep after the war in 2006. I just dey laugh some ignorant people here 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Ricci22: 8:52am On Jan 08 |
Hezbollah can only cause Israel some damage but Lebanon will be destroyed and will never recover in the next 20yrs while Hezbollah will disappear from the Israeli northern border but the backlash is that Arab world will feel victimised by the United States and the West will feel complicit....... Reason Hezbollah would not fall for the trap.....even Iran has been pushed and yet would not fall for it... America and Israel are ruthless 4 Likes |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Blazebond(m): 10:58am On Jan 08 |
Israel cannot win any war against anybody,those people fighting there are European and American army special forces that those Zionists cowards hired to fight for them. Anybody that is comfortable with this genocide on the Palestinian people is a mad psychopath that needs his or her head examined.palestine will be free and Jewish extremist will all fail. 2 Likes |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by talk2hb1(m): 11:47am On Jan 08 |
Floky215:Are You Sure? Israel big uncle self Dey warn am not to try escalate issues beyond what is on ground now. We pray all this wahala settle down. 1 Like |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by freshsailor007: 11:20pm On Jan 08 |
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| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Difrent: 2:20am On Jan 09 |
misreal: Just the way you think Hezbollah went to sleep after 2006 1 Like |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Dandal: 3:22am On Jan 09 |
Difrent: Abeg help me ask am oo. He is clearly ignorant of the fact that Hezbollah forces have been engaged in warfare in Syria for the last decade, while the IDF was pre-occupied with posting dance videos on TikTok. Hezbollah battle-hardened experience and ever expanding arsenal of modern weapons can inflict a catastrophic defeat on Israel thereby posing an existential threat to the settler colony. It was this reality that prompted US to swiftly dispatch an aircraft carrier group to the Mediterranean - for the first time in history - to save Israel from a potential annihilation. 1 Like |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Difrent: 6:35am On Jan 09 |
Dandal: The Only thing that's restraining Hezbollah is the Lebanese economy which clearly can't withstand a war now.....and they don't want a repeat of its 2006 war with Israel that caused so much destruction and devastation that Hezbollah had to apologize to the Lebanese people. Even at this Hezbollah has made it clear if Israel brings the war to them they are ready to face and defeat Israel |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by misreal(m): 9:10am On Jan 09 |
Difrent:Oga no need to argue nonsense with you. From northern Gaza,to the central,to the south. Israel is still going. All these your unnecessary hatred will not do anything. |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by KGBKremlin: 11:25am On Jan 09 |
incandescentena: Common Hamas is dealing with Israel in gaza |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by KGBKremlin: 11:26am On Jan 09 |
Obiedun: Illiterate |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by KGBKremlin: 11:28am On Jan 09 |
Blazebond: God bless you |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Obiedun(m): 11:44am On Jan 09 |
KGBKremlin:You actually don't know the meaning of illiterate. Otondo |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Masterviolence(m): 4:20pm On Jan 09 |
alna:Yes. If you doubt this, take a look at Ukraine. |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by KGBKremlin: 12:38pm On Jan 11 |
Obiedun: Nyameri animal. |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by Obiedun(m): 1:03pm On Jan 11 |
KGBKremlin:You lie . |
| Re: Israel Would Not Win War With Hezbollah – US Officials by MiddleDimension: 4:44pm On Jan 11 |
Dandal: You watch those videos too? |
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