It is ABSOLUTELY crucial for the world to rally behind Israel, as it embodies the core values of Western ideology—freedom, peace, and the all the principles we hold dear. Some of my liberal friends criticize me for my love for this great nation, but they fail to recognize the profound impact Jewish people have had on the lives we now enjoy. I literally can not stress this enough.

One of my favorite people

The IDF named the slain soldiers as Maj. (res.) Nael Fwarsy, 43, a logistics company commander in the 300th “Baram” Regional Brigade’s 299th Battalion, from Maghar, and Sgt. Tomer Keren, 20, of the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion, from Haifa.

Fwarsy was killed and another soldier was lightly wounded after an explosive-laden drone launched by Hezbollah struck an area outside Ya’ara in the Western Galilee.

Keren was killed and eight other soldiers were wounded, including one seriously, after two anti-tank missiles launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon struck a position in the Ramim Ridge area on the border in the Galilee Panhandle.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-le...tank-missiles-and-drones-fired-at-north/

After Israel completes it's ground operation in Lebanon, I certainly hope that Israel will take enough land to have a proper Buffer Zone from Lebanon and their Terrorist Hezbollah.

100%, but many people here dont see that. I feel for the Palestinians but Hamas should be destroyed they are pure evil.

From: The Guardian September 19, 2024

Israel’s double-punch humiliation of Hezbollah is a dance on the edge of an abyss
Tactical daring keeps Netanyahu on the front foot but risks lurch into full-blown war

The detonation of walkie-talkies around Lebanon a day after scores of pagers used by Hezbollah officials blew up, is a one-two punch that drives home the extent of Israel’s penetration of its Shia foe’s defences across its northern border.

It represents utter humiliation for Hezbollah that its security can be so effortlessly breached twice, and be shown incapable of protecting its own people.

Israel is being lammied!


From: BBC September 19, 2024
UK foreign secretary calls for Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire -- now that ceasefire between Israel and Hamas been achieved....

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

"Tonight I'm calling for an immediate ceasefire from both sides," Lammy tells the Reuters news agency, after meeting his French, American and Italian counterparts for talks in Paris.

"We are all very, very clear that we want to see a negotiated political settlement so that Israelis can return to their homes in northern Israel and indeed Lebanese to return to their homes."

How can you fight such evil? unremitting dedication to the destruction of Israelespecially allies hand-cuffing Israel.... and United terrorists Secretary General

Israel has a plan the walkie talkies and pagers are the beginning of a big offensive on Hezbollah and the innocent people of Lebanon will suffer.

Alive! -- Nasrallah is alive! How'd they not get their hands on him

World reacts to UN vote calling on Israel to end Palestinian occupation
Al Jazeera and news agencies 19 September 2024

Extracts:
United Nations General Assembly UNGA resolution, backed by 124 countries -- small potatoes! -- makes it clear that occupation ‘cannot be allowed to continue any longer’

• Palestine’s ambassador to the UN

Palestine’s ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour called the vote a turning point “in our struggle for freedom and justice”

“It sends a clear message that Israel’s occupation must end as soon as possible and that the Palestinian people’s right to
self-determination must be realised” Mansour said

• Israel’s ambassador to the UN

Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon slammed the vote as “a shameful decision that backs the Palestinian Authority’s diplomatic terrorism”

• Palestinian Authority

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the resolution and urged countries across the world to take steps to pressure Israel to adhere to it

• Hamas terrorists

Hamas The Palestinian armed group said it “welcomes the adoption” adding that it reflected “the international community’s solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle”

• Israel

Oren Marmorstein, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on X that the resolution was “a distorted decision that is disconnected from reality, encourages terrorism and harms the chances for peace”

• United States

The US mission to the UN called the resolution “one-sided”, pointing to its failure to recognise that Hamas “a terrorist organization” still exerts power in Gaza and that Israel has a right to defend itself

• European Union

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement:?!Is EU for real?!

israel is very offensive
all of the north in israel is empty ! everyone in gush dan (tlv) for almost a year now ! (hezbollah been firing rockets since 8.10) so they want a want to end this and get people back home
the thing is that war might bring more enemies because hezbollah are vulnerable and iran won't let them fight alone because if they lose it's over and the ''ring of fire'' that kassam solimani has planned over a decade (it's
a plan to create proxies all over the borders of israel with huge arsenal of rockets and to create chaos and destruction in israel while iran is making the nuclear weapon and finish the job) will be over once hezbollah are out of the picture.

EU and UN leaders are hypocrites at least the USA openly backs Israel no matter what.
Hezbollah and Hamas are criminal terror outfits a threat to us all!
Hezbollah in particular big drugs and arms traffickers.

long dominated by countries hostile to Israel -- UN, ICC, ICJ, EU, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch ?!Are they for real?!

and the 'allies' Including Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and !Ukraine! abstained while 124 voted to demand Israel end Palestinian 'occupation' and some -- while the murderous terrorists keep raining terror on Democratic Israel

French President Macron condemned the bombings, expressing solidarity and sympathy with the people of Lebanon

newly elected British government very speedily dropped, the previous government's opposition to an international arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu despite pressure from Washington not to do so

The list goes on and on....

Israel’s attacks on Lebanon:
Lebanese group Hezbollah has confirmed its senior commander, Ibrahim Aqil was killed in an Israeli attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut.

It seems Israel is winning the battles but no sign of victory of this year long, terror war

I reckon, among others
1. Israel is not winning even the battles
2. It is Israel burning and bleeding, on all fronts
3. It is not the terrorists that is collapsing but Israel


Dime a dozen 'Top' terror leaders getting eliminated -- replaced yesterday! not even making a dent....
No let up of the murderous terrorists - Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and other terror outfits - still raining terror on Israel ONE year on

Assassinated Hezbollah and Hamas leaders
Reuters by By Jana Choukeir Editing by Michael Georgy and Andrew Heavens 21 September 2024

Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday 20 September 2024 the Israeli military and security sources in Lebanon said, escalating a year-long conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed group

Here is a list of some operations against Hezbollah and Hamas leaders and commanders, blamed on Israel

Hezbollah

• Ibrahim Aqil – 20 September 2024

Hezbollah's operations commander Ibrahim Aqil, who serves on the group's top military body,

Aqil, who has also used the aliases Tahsin and Abdelqader, is a member of Hezbollah's top military body, the Jihad Council

The United States accuses Aqil of a role in the Beirut truck bombings that struck the American embassy in April 1983 which killed 63 people and a U.S. Marine barracks six months later that killed 241 people

• Fuad Shukr – 30 July 2024

An Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital Beirut killed Hezbollah's top commander Fuad Shukr, identified by the Israeli military as the right-hand man of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

Shukr was one of Hezbollah's leading military figures since it was established by Iran's Revolutionary Guards more than four decades ago

The United States imposed sanctions on Shukr in 2015 and accused him of playing a central role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 U.S. military personnel

• Mohammed Nasser – 03 July 2024

Mohammed Nasser was killed in an Israeli airstrike
Israel claimed responsibility, saying Nasser headed a unit responsible for firing from southwestern Lebanon at Israel

Nasser, a senior commander in Hezbollah, was responsible for a section of Hezbollah's operations at the frontier, according to senior security sources in Lebanon

• Taleb Abdallah – 12 June 2024

Senior Hezbollah field commander Abdallah was killed in a strike claimed by Israel, which said it had hit a command and control centre in southern Lebanon

Security sources in Lebanon said Abdallah was Hezbollah's commander for the central region of the southern border strip and was of the same rank as Nasser

Abdallah's killing prompted the group to fire a massive barrage of rockets across the border at Israel.

Hamas

• Ismail Haniyeh – 31 July 2024

Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the early hours of July 31 in Iran, the Palestinian militant group said

Haniyeh was killed by a missile that hit him directly in a state guesthouse where he was staying. Israel has not claimed responsibility

• Mohammed Deif – 13 July 2024

Israel's military said Deif was killed after fighter jets struck in the area of Khan Younis in Gaza after an intelligence assessment
The elusive Deif had survived seven! Israel assassination attempts

Deif is believed to have been one of the masterminds of Hamas' 07 October 2023 attack on southern Israel, which triggered the Gaza war Hamas has not confirmed his death

• Saleh Al-Arouri – 02 January 2024

An Israeli drone strike on Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahiyeh killed Deputy Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri

Arouri was also the founder of Hamas military wing, the Qassam Brigades

Israel and the life of the Jewish population continue to be under siege from all kinds of Arab terror dangers as well as from odious,
self-serving hypocrisy, double standards and antisemitism

As Israel stands alone, Israel [and us] know that the only hope for the nation’s survival, the only Democracy in the Middle East, lays in the hands of the President of the United States -- as was Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR served as the "great arsenal of democracy" in World War II and saved Europe

Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu quoted same in his 25 July 2024 speech to US Congress
"give us the tools and we'll finish the job”

In his first televised speech since the unprecedented attacks, which took place over two days and killed at least 37 people, Nasrallah on Thursday called them a “big blow in terms of security and humanity” but said they have failed to bring the group to its knees.

He conceded the attacks were “unprecedented in the history of the resistance movement in Lebanon” as well as “in the history of our country” and “our enemy”.

But Nasrallah said Hezbollah would continue supporting Palestinians in Gaza “no matter what the consequences are, what the sacrifices are, what scenarios will unfold”.

He added that what happened did not impact the group’s command, control or infrastructure.
“I reassure you our infrastructure has not been touched,” he said.

“He is down, but he is defiant,” Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara added, referring to the Hezbollah leader. “[But] it’s a major blow to Hezbollah. There is no doubt about that. ”

“But at the same time, there was something that felt ambiguous when he spoke about keeping the accountability or the retaliation within a very small circle. I think he spoke about the investigation within the organisation, within Hezbollah.”

“We have an answer from him that he’s definitely going to come back but without saying when and how,” Analyst Sultan Barakat, a professor of public policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, told Al Jazeera, adding that the speech aimed to present a “partial win” for Hezbollah.

You mean -- How'd they not get his hands on them

Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli airstrike was top military official on US wanted list

https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-...-attack-8ec89de2b117b52e2c09b19155e35d13

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Israeli jets carried out a strike Friday targeting a senior Hezbollah military commander in Beirut's southern suburbs, the main stronghold of the Iran-backed group, killing and wounding several people and causing considerable damage, according to witnesses and media reports.

The targeted Hezbollah commander was identified as Ibrahim Aqil, who reportedly was killed in the strike. Hezbollah has not confirmed the assassination of Aqil, who heads the Radwan unit made up of the party's elite fighters.

On April 18, 2023, the U.S. State Department announced a $7 million reward for any information leading to the identification and arrest of Aqil, known as Tahsin and serving on Hezbollah's highest military body, the Jihad Council.

He was a principal member of the Islamic Jihad Organization that claimed the April 1983 bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, which killed 63 people, and the October 1983 U.S. Marine barracks, which killed 241 U.S. personnel.

He also was involved during the 1980s in the kidnapping and holding of U.S. and German hostages in Lebanon.

The Lebanese Health Ministry said eight people were killed and 59 others injured in the air strike, which led to the collapse of two residential buildings. Eight of the wounded were listed in critical condition.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/09/20/Lebanon-airstrikes/6021726819447/

In the EU only Germany and the Netherlands trully defend Israel, the UK as well.
Interesting however that populist rightwing parties in Europe do back Israel now, because they see the problems with too many Muslim immigrants.

Don't know -- these 'allies' all abstained in the recent controversial [ultra extreme] UN resolution demanding Israel withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank, the “one-sided” failure to recognise that Hamas “a terrorist organization” still exerts power in Gaza and that Israel has a right to defend itself, against terror

As regards the immigrants, I plead the Fifth.... exercising my right to remain silent and not incriminate myself!

The list of the Assassinated Hezbollah and Hamas leaders, missing!
1. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar
2. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

Hamas

• Mohammed Deif – 13 July 2024

"Hamas has not confirmed" Deif was killed as Israel's military said after Israeli fighter jets struck in the area of Khan Younis in Gaza after an intelligence assessment. The elusive Deif had survived seven! Israel assassination attempts

Sinwar and Nasrallah -- Dead men walking

No doubt. I too reckon if not for the US
1. Israel would be in dire straits destruction by Iran, their proxies and other terror outfits
2. Iran still mulling over their 'retaliation' since the "Israel has not claimed responsibility" Haniyeh, July assassination, in Tehran itself

Israel GPS 'spoofing'
ABC Australia by Basel Hindeleh and Matthew Doran in Jerusalem and Chérine Yazbeck in Beirut 22 September 2024

Extracts:
Booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies are not the only ways Israel has been hitting Hezbollah's communications

Since the start of the Gaza war, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been deploying a tactic known as GPS "spoofing" designed to fool enemy missiles and rockets that rely on the global positioning system technology to aim at their target

And while it may have helped deflect some aerial attacks, it has also been disorienting for everyday people — making modern map technology on smart devices unavailable and disrupting important civil infrastructure, commercial aircraft and even dating and food delivery apps

"Spoofing" in terms of GPS, is about making a device such as a mobile phone — or in war, a missile — think it's in a totally different location — and the GPS apps will tell you that you're actually a hundred kilometres away, from where you actually are....

• It's not blocking the GPS signal. It's confusing it

Professor Todd Humphreys from the University of Texas told the ABC Australia, initially Israel denied responsibility for the spoofing as it is considered a dangerous act but later acknowledged it was happening, calling it "GPS interruption"

Professor Humphreys says
Israel is shielding against any GPS-guided weapons fired in its direction

• Despite this, Hezbollah demonstrated its reach and ability to evade defensive systems when it sent in a video drone to film Haifa and when it launched its long-awaited response to the Israeli assassination of military commander Fuad Shukr in late August 2024

Many rocket launches were prevented by a pre-emptive Israeli attack or intercepted by Israel's iron dome defence system but the GPS spoofing may have also contributed to the minimal impact of the strikes

Jennifer Parker, an expert associate with the National Security College at the Australian National University, says

Israel taking out people who matter
The Australian 22 September 2024

This is calculated: Israel ‘looking to take out people who matter'

Israel’s airstrike on a building in southern Beirut didn’t just kill a top Hezbollah commander – it took out an entire class of senior leaders of the militant group’s most elite fighting force, as the two foes lurch closer to all-out war

Sinwar Paranoid
Times Now Explainers 19 September 2024

• Where is Yahya Sinwar?

Israel's hunt for Yahya Sinwar Hamas' Last man standing -- Israel's prime target: the secretive, shadowy Hamas leader

Decoded: How Sinwar leads Hamas from underground, having disappeared into Hamas tunnels

Imo, the Israeli Navy needs to put an embargo on Lebanon from receiving any weapons/supplies of War.

Hezbollah launches around 85 missiles from Lebanon deep into Israel

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/09/22/Lebanon-Hezbollah-rocket-launhes/4851727012341/

From: The Guardian September 22, 2024

Hezbollah ‘enters battle of reckoning’ with Israel as world powers urge restraint
Israel strikes targets in Lebanon as Hezbollah launches deepest rocket attacks since start of Gaza war

Both sides engage in significant escalation in conflict, prompting UN to say region is on ‘brink of imminent catastrophe’

The fighting between the IDF and Hezbollah militants is taking place in parallel to the unrelenting conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Hezbollah has said it has entered an “open-ended battle of reckoning” with Israel after launching a series of rocket attacks on the north of the country as world powers implored both sides to step back from the brink of all-out war.

In a significant escalation of the conflict, Israeli warplanes carried out their most intense bombardment in almost a year across southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah responded with its deepest rocket attacks into Israel since the start of the Gaza war.

The events prompted the UN secretary general, António Guterres, to warn of the risk “of transforming Lebanon [into] another Gaza”.

During a funeral for a top commander killed along with 44 other people in an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem, said on Sunday that an “open-ended battle of reckoning has started”. “Threats will not stop us,” he said. “We are ready to face all military possibilities.”

From: The Guardian September 22, 2024

As Israeli warplanes pounded border villages and more than 100,000 residents fled northwards, politicians in Beirut called for
de-escalation to avoid a war as authorities said four people had been killed and nine injured over the weekend.

But the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was also trenchant in his rhetoric.

“In the last few days, we have inflicted on Hezbollah a sequence of blows that it did not imagine. If Hezbollah did not understand the message, I promise you it will understand the message,” he said.

“No country can tolerate shooting at its residents, shooting at its cities, and we, the state of Israel, will not tolerate it either … We will do everything necessary to restore security.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said early on Sunday that hundreds of rockets had been fired into Israel from Lebanon, with some landing near the northern city of Haifa.

They said rockets had been fired “toward civilian areas”, pointing to a possible escalation after previous barrages had mainly been aimed at military targets.

Six people were reported to have been injured.