The Real War in Israel Hasn’t Even Started

I wish I could say that I’m surprised by the content of this article.

It is clear that Israel is in a fight for her very existence of which the war in Gaza is just a part. She stands alone. No other power is going to send its troops to help her overwhelm a determined enemy even if its apocalyptic ideology really threatens us all. The Biden government, if it can be called that, does not even have the political will to maintain law and order in America’s cities or repel a massive invasion of illegal aliens.

This chilling and sinking realization must compel Israel to kill and crush the enemy without compunction and destroy its military as a fighting force. Left undone, life in Israel will not be worth living and the rest of us will be left wondering where and when the terrorists will strike at us. Any agreements with them are worth less than the paper upon which they are written.

The Iranian regime from whence a cascading fountain of unending lethal aggression flows must be removed from power if an enduring peace is ever to be established. This must be accomplished BEFORE the grisly ayatollahs get their blood-drenched hands on a nuclear weapon. Once done, this will derange all the calculations of every terrorist organization they finance and control as well as their calcified belief that they are in possession of a celestial warrant to terrorize, subjugate and kill the rest of us simply because we do not subscribe to the preposterous tenets of Islam with all of its ferocious hatreds as convincingly demonstrated on October 7th.

Matti Friedman: What If the Real War in Israel Hasn’t Even Started?

Take the current war with Hamas and multiply it by ten. That’s what war with Hezbollah would look like. And Israelis are not asking if it will begin, but when.

By Matti Friedman, January 28, 2024

SHLOMI, Israel — The undercurrents of Israeli life at this moment are darker than I’ve ever seen them: the daily photos of smiling young people, taken at some happy moment before their deaths in combat; glimpses of Israeli girls buried alive in Palestinian tunnels, a short drive from our border and utterly out of reach; a geriatric Israeli leadership uninspiring at best, deceitful at worst; devastation in Gaza; a wall of hate in the Middle East and in growing parts of the West.

But a central part of the dread in Israel is the possibility that the real war hasn’t even started.

Since October 7, most eyes have been on Israel’s south, but as the prophecy from the Book of Jeremiah reads, “the evil will come from the north.” The north means Lebanon, a beautiful, tragic shell of a country under the sway of Hezbollah, the “Party of God,” a fanatic Shia army funded and trained by Iran. This is the northern link of the Iranian encirclement of Israel, a strategy that often escapes Western news consumers accustomed to the fiction that the conflict here is “Israeli-Palestinian.”

When I spoke to one veteran military observer of the northern front, he used the term 10X—by which he meant that to imagine an all-out war with Hezbollah, take the current war with Hamas and multiply it by ten.

The Hezbollah strike force, known as Radwan, is bigger, better trained, and better equipped than the Hamas equivalent, the Nukhba, which was responsible for the carnage of October 7. If the Palestinians have fired 9,000 rockets since the beginning of the war, Hezbollah is thought to have an arsenal of 140,000—not including drones and mortars—with all of Israel in range. The army expects more than 4,000 launches a day, a scale Israeli civilians have never experienced. While this is going on, much of Lebanon will be laid waste by our air force and artillery. “If people truly understood what the war with Hezbollah will mean,” one officer told me this week, “everyone would be doing every possible thing in their power to find a diplomatic solution.”

Hezbollah has already lost more than 170 men in cross-border fighting since October 7, compared to 15 fatalities on the Israeli side. But what Hezbollah has already achieved, even without a full-scale war, becomes clear if you drive up to the border.

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Staff Sgt

3 months ago

“She stands alone.” Maybe but they do have something far greater than soldiers and weapons………………………they have a PROMISE from G_D, JESUS, and the HOLY SPIRIT, combined, they are the SUPER TRINITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and I am sure Angels will be deployed!!!!!!!! So Israel doesn’t stand alone!!!!!

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Sir Peter

3 months ago

What passes for government in Lebanon must be told that unless THEY destroy Hezbollah Israel will nuke them.

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Dannie

3 months ago

Reply to  Sir Peter

Thieves, thieves tramps and cheats.

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garry pollack

3 months ago

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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Dannie

3 months ago

Off topic: Most of the crimes that are committed the govt always blames it on the citizens. If they don’t tell you the race of the person, you know it wasn’t a whitey. 100000%.
That’s why immigrants are black, Pakistan or Middle eastern. And they wear disguises like fake big nose, whitee clothes, hat, dark sunnies, and mask. Complete disguise. All attacks are made on little children or young females. Govt ignoring the public. Thanks alot!!!

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mike

3 months ago

the war never ended. It’s been going on for 1400 years

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Viking

3 months ago

We as a Christian nation MUST stand behind Israel.

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mcrognale

3 months ago

Nukes will solved the problem once and for all. Make southern Lebanon a radioactive wasteland. Take out Tehran completely. Get it done once and for all.

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jerry

3 months ago

I think Iran has already launched a nuclear missile at Israel but the missile was shot down by the USS Carney and is at the bottom of the sea thank G-D. As soon as they are able to produce another it will be used.

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