Berichten zufolge befürchten die USA, dass Netanyahu den Hisbollah-Konflikt nutzen könnte, um an der Macht zu bleiben

by clarkhunterparks

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  1. >Sources say U.S. intelligence analysis indicates IDF would struggle to succeed in fight against Iran-backed group while military spread thin while fighting in Gaza; Biden instructs officials to prevent war spread

  2. >“The number of casualties in Lebanon could be anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 and entail a massive evacuation of all of northern Israel,” Bilal Saab, a Lebanon expert at the Middle East Institute, a Washington think tank, told the paper.

    That would be an unmitigated disaster…

  3. I can promise you the Israeli public is well aware of this possibility. Netanyahu has an unprecedented lack of support in Israel, and is probably holding power for only as long as Ganz and other opposition members are united with him for the duration of the war.

    If he tries to pull stunts such as starting an unrequired conflict, I would imagine Ganz would walk or speak out, causing pretty much the entire Israeli public to demand an election. Bibi can’t just do whatever he wants.

    But it is unclear how required or unrequired large military action in Lebanon is. They have been firing on Israeli towns for months now unprovoked. Some 100K Israelis had to evacuate their homes because of it.

  4. I swear if this motherefucker will drag us into a regional war and basically obliterates the god dam country’s i will walk into is fucking war cabinet and slap the lies out of him

  5. Calling up WaPo was a dick move from the Biden admin (ETA: especially considering this intel report could be interpreted as encouraging Hezbollah), and a clear sign that administration support for Israel is weakening. I’ve been worried something like this would happen; Biden is looking at some scary polling numbers.

    As an American, I’m happy — insistent, in fact — that we leave the government of Israel to the Israelis.

  6. Stop funding Israel then?

    There’s no need to be giving money to them anyways… Their GDP is half a **trillion**.

    wiki:

    >Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid: until February 2022, the United States had provided Israel US$150 billion (non-inflation-adjusted) in bilateral assistance.

    Send the money to Ukraine instead… and fight fascists, not help **create** them.

  7. Benny Gantz is Bibi’s primary political opponent, and his current reluctant partner in the unity government. Gantz wants only “one thing” more than for the war to be over, so that Bibi can fall, and he can likely take his place. But that “one thing” is Israel’s security. His a patriot more than he is a politician.

    If Gantz supports whatever Israel does in Lebanon, it’s because it needs to be done. If he doesn’t, that’s telling. Right now, he appears to be giving Bibi his full support in handling Hezbollah.

  8. With all due (dis)respect to Bibi , Hezbollah aggression has nothing to do with Israel’s political affairs. Retaliation scale wouldn’t be much of a difference in other coalitions.

    Sooner or later the head of the snake , Nasrallah, needs to be beheaded. After 6/10 events, it’s bad, bad time for terror organisations to pick a fight with extremely pissed , political left and right as one, population.

  9. Can we tell Yigal Amir that we have one way of
    Him getting out of prison.

    It’s to stop what he started.

  10. If the US was so concerned they should stop their unconditional military support of Israel.

  12. This is a bizarre take. Netanyahu is one of the most war-averse prime ministers in Israel’s history. His appeasement policies and fear of initiating any meaningful military action against terrorists is one of the policy failures that lead to October 7th. Right now, three months after October 7th, hundreds of thousands Israelis are still displaced from the north, and Israeli towns and military bases are being bombarded daily by Hezbollah rockets and missiles, yet Bibi still refuses to engage in any meaningful military operation against Hezbollah, even in the face of growing internal pressure. Earlier reports indicated that he directly blocked several such military actions despite recommendations by other war cabinet members.

    If the US is concerned about a war breaking out, they should provide a reasonable alternative that would stop the ongoing daily attacks by Hezbollah. Israel naturally will not be able to continue to live with the existing situation on its northern border, and it has nothing to do with Bibi or even the Israeli right in general.

  15. Oh? Someone who has made autocratic changes to his country’s power structure in the past is likely to take more autocratic actions in the future? I’m shocked! Shocked I say! Well, no. Not actually.

  16. Yup. This is exactly the play of despots. Create a conflict, get everyone to think that only you can solve the conflict, profit.

  18. No shit. He’s a fascist authoritarian who will do anything he can do stay in power.

  19. Oh lets not pretend that this whole invasion of Gaza was not for Netanyahu to remain in power.

  20. Hezbollah = Iran.

    Hundreds of thousands of Iranian rockets and missiles, far more accurate and deadlier than Hamas’. Any low-level general would have wanted to neutralize such a threat asap and not wait for the enemy to start a war on their own terms. It seems logical, legitimate and even required.

  21. The one who decides if there is an escalation in Lebanon in Hezbollah.

    Just like the one who decided there would be a war in Gaza is Hamas.

    Gantz going off and saying Netanyahu is deliberately escalating with Hezbollah to stay in power would be incredibly risky. If he does it, Netanyahu falls, then there’s escalation anyway, especially if there are lots of civilian Israeli casualties from a full-scale Hezbollah rocket attack, he looks as bad as Netanyahu does.

    And lol at the administration that loves democracy so much, so long as the side it favors wins. If Gantz had been PM on October 7th, there’d be no talk from Washington about “concerns” of him doing this, that, or the other to remain in power.

    Netanyahu remains PM as long as the Israeli public tolerates it. Not a second longer. That toleration is lessening by the day. There’s nothing he can do to wiggle his way out of that.

  22. > Netanyahu to use Hezbollah conflict to remain in power

    Sorry; this may be superficial or knee-jerk, but my reaction can’t be anything other than **”Well, duhhh…..”**

  23. Getting real tired of these far right Israeli war hawks spending my healthcare money.

  25. Autocrats gonna autocrat. Nothing to see here.

  26. Maybe stop propping him up then? Internally, he is not popular, so why keep giving he so much backing, allowing him to show a position of strength internally.

    The sooner he loses his public facing image as a war time leader, the sooner he gets replaced.

    Bibi had a role in literally keeping Hamas funded, and that is openly known, yet somehow he is still in power. It’s just wild.

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