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Israel Braces Itself In Face Of Imminent Threat Of Hostilities.

By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  August 23rd, 2010 at 07:15 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

The chatter among the bad guys, Syria, Hizballah in Lebanon, Hamas and the Palestinians and the Islamic Jihad, is all about the high state of preparedness for war.

Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant and Ehud Barak

Israel moved quickly to solve command issues, with Ehud Barak’s nomination of OC Southern Command Major General Yoav Galant to serve as the country’s Chief of Staff in February, when Lt.General Gaby Ashkenazi steps down. A wise and timely move by the Israeli government.

Iran has its surrogates threatening war, as it continues its insane race for more and more weapons and its relentless pursuit of nuclear arms. Iran may be goading its puppets into attacking Israel to bleed the Israelis as much as they can, before Israel launches an assault aimed at crippling Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

When you stop and consider that Hizballah has some forty thousand rockets and missiles hidden just over the border and the length of time they’ve had to fortify strong points inside Lebanon, it makes the prospect of combat there worth serious consideration.

I don’t know how brave the Syrians are. They talk up a great game but they don’t seem particularly eager to go mano a mano with the Israelis. As I recall, the last time the two armies met, the Syrians got fed their lunch. What is more worrisome are the missile batteries that she has concentrated in the border area.

Hamas and the West Bank… there won’t be much change here… Israel will still have to go in and dig them out, only this time the Palestinians will bring out all their toys.
It’s a monumental undertaking that Israel has known was coming for years.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

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  • snowshooze

    By proxy.
    Problem solved, no more Mid-East conflicts, and everyone left will love Obama.
    Obama is endorsing a major mid-east war by showing weakness and indecision. Iran thumbs their nose at the world on a daily basis at present, and they will continue to push until we push back.
    I am amazed that Israel has not acted independently already, I am certain they can clearly see that Obama is too lame a leader to take ANY action whatever.
    With Iran’s recent developments of new homegrown cruise missiles, the other one capable of carrying multiple warheads, their fueling and imminent onset of nuclear power and access to plutonium, I predict a very nasty outcome.
    Israel cannot afford to wait much longer.
    Iran is not shy, and once being armed, they will put that force into action the moment they feel they are in position to make a decisive move.
    Others have pointed out that Iran will also supply the terror machine directly is such ways as providing material for ” Dirty bombs ” which could easily be smuggled into nearly any location they might choose, possibly over the Mexican border amongst other things.
    We are on the brink of disaster, and I have no faith in our President who is probably still on vacation of ever rolling up his sleeves and doing the hard work that is required of the leader of the free world.
    We are currently leaderless. Obama is a total washout. We can expect nothing from him at all.
    Gillerman is absolutely correct in his opinion that Iran has nothing but the worst of intentions, and that they must be stopped.
    Israel is surrounded by fairly well armed hostile nations, I actually expected Israel to strike Iran over the weekend and can only speculate that they feel they cannot defend against a combined retaliation from Libya, Iran, Syria and Palestine all at once. Possibly they are arming up a bit more, again I can only wonder why at this critical moment, they have not acted.
    If they are waiting on us, I fear they have no hope whatever.
    The chances of peace holding for the next administration to step in and address the issue no better that the odds of Obama stepping up to the plate—– slim to none.