Hezbollah Vows Revenge After Israel Murders Senior Commander

Just yesterday, I said that the most logical thing for the US to be doing right now is encouraging Israel to start a war with Hezbollah to distract from the child-killing in Gaza.

If Israel was involved in a more aggressive war with Hezbollah, a real army, you would have videos of soldiers fighting other soldiers instead of these endless videos of children with their limbs blown off.

It seems that this is most likely the plan.

Reuters:

Hezbollah fired the most rockets it has launched at Israel in a single day since cross-border hostilities broke out eight months ago, as part of its retaliation on Wednesday for an Israeli strike which killed a senior Hezbollah field commander.

The Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel have been trading fire since the eruption of the Gaza war in October, in steadily intensifying hostilities that have fuelled concern of a bigger confrontation between the heavily armed adversaries.

The Israeli strike in the south Lebanon village of Jouaiyya late on Tuesday killed three Hezbollah fighters alongside the senior field commander Taleb Abdallah, also known as Abu Taleb, Israel and three security sources in Lebanon said.

He was the most senior Hezbollah commander killed during eight months of hostilities, one of the sources said.

The Israeli military confirmed that it had killed him as well as the three other Hezbollah fighters in a strike on a command and control centre.

The sources in Lebanon said he was Hezbollah’s commander for the central region of the southern border strip.

Hezbollah said it carried out at least 17 operations against Israel on Wednesday, including eight in response to what it called the “assassination” by Israel in Jouaiyya.

In one, Hezbollah fighters fired guided missiles at an Israeli military factory. In another, the group said it had attacked Israeli military headquarters in Ein Zeitim and Ami’ad, and an Israeli military air surveillance station in Meron.

A security source said the group fired some 250 rockets at Israel throughout Wednesday, the most in a day in this conflict so far. More than 100 rockets were launched at once, one of the group’s biggest barrages since the hostilities began in October.

Speaking at a funeral procession for Abdallah in the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut, senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine said the group would increase the intensity, force and quantity of its operations against Israel in retaliation for his killing.

Gaza is totally destroyed. Hamas is not a threat. (They never actually were, but that is a long story.)

The best solution for the fact that Israel has no exit strategy in Gaza is to start this second war.

We have to give it to Bibi: though Jews are known for their lying, he’s been incredibly straightforward and honest about the fact he is planning to kill everyone in Gaza. But this has created a major PR problem, and while Israel seems confident that the US will always support them no matter what (this is true), things would be a lot easier for them if they were fighting some real soldiers instead of simply murdering children.