Israel’s stunning success in taking out the entire leadership of Hezbollah has laid the foundation for a ground incursion that will eliminate the terrorists’ ability to threaten northern Israel, where somewhere around 100,000 people have had to flee their homes to avoid Hezbollah rockets. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Israeli special forces have been carrying out small, targeted raids into southern Lebanon, gathering intelligence and probing ahead of an expected broader ground incursion, people familiar with the matter said.
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The Biden administration expects an imminent Israeli invasion of Lebanon, U.S. officials said.
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An Israeli official said that, if there were to be a broader ground operation, it would feature “localized, limited raids against Hezbollah targets along the border with the objective of destroying the capabilities of the Radwan Forces,” the militant group’s special-operations unit. Israeli forces assess that the group is making preparations for an attack, as Hamas did before Oct. 7, including positioning clothes, weapons and other materials along the border.
Hezbollah would carry out an October 7-style massacre if it could, but Israel isn’t going to let that happen. I don’t really understand the relationship between Hezbollah and the Lebanese government and army. Thus:
Israel warned the Lebanese army, in a message delivered by Arab countries, that it would soon launch a ground operation and that it should pull its forces back, Arab mediators said. The Lebanese army on Monday ordered troops to leave the border area due to a potential Israeli ground operation, according to a senior army official who said that troops from eight army surveillance posts are being repositioned.
Israel has nearly completed its destruction of Hamas, and Hezbollah is reeling after its entire top command has been neatly wiped out. Now Israel is poised to eliminate the threat from its northern border under which it has lived for years.
So, what is the Biden administration’s role in these events? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have remained true to their policy of being utterly irrelevant, when they are not actually destructive, on all foreign policy issues. Biden’s greatest fear, apparently, is that Israel might actually achieve victory in its battle to the death with Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies:
President Biden starkly instructed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to abandon reported plans for an imminent invasion of southern Lebanon to clear out Hezbollah-held areas days after the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah.
“Israel may now be launching a limited operation into Lebanon. Are you aware of that? Are you comfortable with their plan?” a journalist asked Biden at the White House.
“I’m more aware than you might know, and I’m comfortable with them stopping,” the president replied.
“We should have a cease-fire now,” he added.
There is a pattern here: whenever the Jews are winning, liberal Democrats want a cease fire to give the terrorists time to regroup and live to fight again another day. Happily, no one cares what they think.
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