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Israel will ‘destroy’ Lebanon if war spreads
The Telegraph via Yahoo ^ | October 15th, 2023 | Roland Oliphant

Posted on 10/15/2023 4:18:21 PM PDT by Mariner

Israeli jets have started bombing in Lebanon as the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) warned it would “destroy” the country if Hizbollah entered the war.

The air raids came as the United States and the UK expressed fears that Israel’s war with Hamas could “escalate” into a conflict involving “the wider Middle East”.

The Israeli strikes were carried out after anti-tank rockets fired by Hizbollah killed one person in northern Israel, in the most serious clashes outside of Gaza since the war began.

Tzachi Hanegbi, an Israeli national security adviser, warned the Iran-sponsored terrorist group not to start a war on a second front, threatening the “destruction of Lebanon” if it did.

Western nations have warned against any escalation in the conflict and have moved to try and prevent it spilling outwards, potentially drawing in Iran, with the US ordering a second aircraft carrier strike group to the region over the weekend.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Iran; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; iran; israel; isreal; lebanon; tzachihanegbi; waronterror
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Iran wants to use proxies because they are AFRAID of direct engagement with Israel.
1 posted on 10/15/2023 4:18:21 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Could one say the same thing about the Ukes being our proxies in their war with Russia?


2 posted on 10/15/2023 4:20:22 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Mariner

To the extent that Hizbollah has 150,000 missiles, it needs to be wiped clean.


3 posted on 10/15/2023 4:25:40 PM PDT by Paladin2
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US ordering a second aircraft carrier strike group to the region over the weekend.

With the Biden Administration in charge, who will the U.S. carriers be targeting?

4 posted on 10/15/2023 4:25:57 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Night Hides Not

It’s not like the Ukes invaded Russia.

Uke attacks on in country Rooskies not withstanding.


5 posted on 10/15/2023 4:27:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Night Hides Not

Could one say the same thing about the Ukes being our proxies in their war with Russia?


Absolutely not intentionally. Russia invaded its neighbor with plans to continue on with smaller NATO nations also on Putin’s list.


6 posted on 10/15/2023 4:29:30 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Mariner

I’m not seeing a downside here…


7 posted on 10/15/2023 4:30:40 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: tsowellfan; Paladin2

Thanks guys, I stand corrected.


8 posted on 10/15/2023 4:32:57 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Mariner

this is NOT tit for tat

this is you’ll never do that again for tat...


9 posted on 10/15/2023 4:35:35 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: tsowellfan

Biden’s war

4th Reich hitlerism

On Jews / Christians

Remarxing Russia

Israel too


10 posted on 10/15/2023 4:35:55 PM PDT by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: Mariner

I like the bologna and the trees but now much else. Used to be a cosmopolitan country.


11 posted on 10/15/2023 4:37:31 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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US ordering a second aircraft carrier strike group to the region over the weekend.
With the Biden Administration in charge, who will the U.S. carriers be targeting?>>> Biden/Obama/Val Jar ordered Hamas to attack. will somehow forget that tel-aviv is in isreal oops.


12 posted on 10/15/2023 4:39:13 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Mariner

Why destroy Lebanon? Destroy Iran.


13 posted on 10/15/2023 4:40:10 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: marktwain

With the Biden Administration in charge, who will the U.S. carriers be targeting?
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With Biden ‘in charge,’ what could possibly go wrong? It won’t be long before all hell will break loose.


14 posted on 10/15/2023 4:41:28 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: Mariner

The second US carrier strike group (Eisenhower) is not going to join the Ford strike group, but to relieve it; and the Ford strike group will return to its home port.


15 posted on 10/15/2023 4:43:40 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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From what’s been reported it won’t be painless for Israel either. Hezbollah has 10 times the military capability of Hamas. No where in Israel will be safe.


16 posted on 10/15/2023 4:45:43 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: tsowellfan

” Russia invaded its neighbor with plans to continue on with smaller NATO nations also on Putin’s list.”

How come Putin showed you his list when he didn’t show me the list?


17 posted on 10/15/2023 4:55:16 PM PDT by bosco24
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To: Mariner

Lebeanon was multicultural a short 60 years ago.


18 posted on 10/15/2023 4:56:23 PM PDT by inchworm (al )
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To: bosco24

wake Up from your slumber....

Vicky Nuland isn’t always wrong.


19 posted on 10/15/2023 5:02:28 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: inchworm

Yes. Lebanon was known as the Switzerland of the Middle East.


20 posted on 10/15/2023 5:03:06 PM PDT by marktwain
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