Israel is at war!

I started a thread on this topic yesterday, but no one there is making predictions. It is not axiomatically certain that Iran is pulling any strings here. It is ridiculous to assume that the government of the Lebanon has the ability to interfer with Hezbollah. They are able to deal with Hezbollah members individually outside of areas controlled by the Hezbollah militia, as was demonstrated by an arrest last week. But they can't be expected to effectively intervene in Hezbollah-controlled areas.

But Hezbollah is a much the client of Syria as it is of Iran, and more proximately supported by Syria. If one wants to look for linkages, the one with Syria ought to be more immediate and obvious. If one alleges that Iran gave Hezbollah a medium-range missile, i'd like to know how the hell they physically delivered it. Syria, long a client of the Soviet Union before 1991, undoubtedly has SCUDs or another form of medium-range missile, and as much expertise to modify it or mimic it as the Iraqis showed with their Al Samud missile. It is far more plausible that Syria provided a medium range missile to Hezbollah.

Just because Rex, one of the most wild-eyed, out of touch with reality members at this site is ranting about Iran is not good reason to attempt to drag them into this. There's enough of a problem there without involving military adventurism against Iran.

Ellinas wrote:

RexRed wrote:

Iran is next.

Are you implying that Israel will mess with Iran without the involvement of the USA? I can't imagine the Israelis facing the Iranian army instead of Palestinian kids with slingshots.

The Palestinians have had more than slingshots... I recall a few busses blown up. That is not quite a slingshot. The Palestinians have had nothing but war on their minds so they will get their war and when Palestinian hate is destroyed there will be peace for the remaining Palestinians.

I am not sure how this will play out exactly.

But nukes are involved and the Americans and Israelis don't like WMD...

Those rockets sent into Israel would have had nukes on them if Iran had been ready with them. This is serious stuff. The "leadership" in Iran's days are numbered.

We should take Irans nukes and blow them up over Russia...

Let the Russians and Putin see what their tax dollars have bought.

Mr Putin has his hands in Iranian oil tainted with the blood of Israelis. What good will oil do Mr putin when he has armed a crazy dictator for a neighbor?

Mr Putin needs to bow down to Allah at gun point a few times to smarten up.

RexRed wrote:

Ellinas wrote:

RexRed wrote:

Iran is next.

Are you implying that Israel will mess with Iran without the involvement of the USA? I can't imagine the Israelis facing the Iranian army instead of Palestinian kids with slingshots.

The Palestinians have had more than slingshots... I recall a few busses blown up. That is not quite a slingshot. The Palestinians have had nothing but war on their minds so they will get their war and when Palestinian hate is destroyed there will be peace for the remaining Palestinians.

I am not sure how this will play out exactly.

But nukes are involved and the Americans and Israelis don't like WMD...

Those rockets sent into Israel would have had nukes on them if Iran had been ready with them. This is serious stuff. The "leadership" in Iran's days are numbered.

We should take Irans nukes and blow them up over Russia...

Let the Russians and Putin see what their tax dollars have bought.

Mr Putin has his hands in Iranian oil tainted with the blood of Israelis. What good will oil do Mr putin when he has armed a crazy dictator for a neighbor?

Mr Putin needs to bow down to Allah at gun point a few times to smarten up.

And after all these, you'll wake up hopping from your bed.

To clear the situation and decide how I must behave, do you really believe what you say or you are usually kidding? I am asking you seriously.