(The Economic Collapse Blog)—“Escalation” will be a word that is used a lot in the coming days. Once Israel sends troops into Gaza, it is going to trigger a series of events that nobody is going to be able to control. But there is no turning back now. When Hamas decided to rape women, behead children and kidnap the elderly, they made any other course of action impossible. Israel must go into Gaza. And as I write this article, we are witnessing the largest mobilization of Israelis troops that we have seen since the Yom Kippur War…
Tens of thousands of Israeli troops are on the move as the country prepares for a possible ground operation in response to the surprise attack launched by Hamas early Saturday morning.
More than 300,000 troops have been called up, the largest mobilization on short notice in Israel’s history, according to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus. Those in the south are readying ahead of the forthcoming operation in Gaza and defending the border. Jeeps, tanks and other large military vehicles have been seen heading south as well
Along the northern border with Lebanon, the IDF has deployed tens of thousands of troops, including reservists and regular units, Conricus said. Tanks have also been spotted in the area.
Once Israeli troops enter Gaza, the Great Middle East War will have begun.
Even now, Israeli aircraft are “razing entire districts” inside Gaza in preparation for the coming invasion…
Israeli air strikes hammered Gaza on Tuesday, razing entire districts and filling morgues with dead Palestinians as Israel took revenge for the Hamas assaults that have triggered some of the worst blood-letting in 75 years of conflict.
Across the barrier wall enclosing the coastal enclave, Israeli soldiers collected the last of Israel’s dead four days after Hamas gunmen rampaged through towns, killing hundreds of people in the deadliest Palestinian militant attack in Israel’s history.
In the past, Israel has tried to hit Hamas really hard in order to deter future attacks. But now the mission is to utterly destroy Hamas.
At this point, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is characterizing this fight as a battle between the civilized world and barbarism…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced his intent to wage an unprecedented military offensive against Hamas in Gaza, a war that he has characterized as a civilizational clash.
“And just as the forces of civilization united to defeat ISIS, the forces of civilization must support Israel in defeating Hamas,” Netanyahu said on Monday. “In fighting Hamas, Israel is not only fighting for its own people. It is fighting for every country that stands against barbarism. Israel will win this war, and when Israel wins, the entire civilized world wins.”
There is no way that Israel can “win this war” without going into Gaza.
And that is precisely what is about to happen.
In fact, it is being reported that the Israeli government has already informed the Egyptian government that it is gearing up for “a months-long ground campaign in Gaza”…
Israel is readying for a months-long ground campaign in Gaza, an Egyptian official tells The Times of Israel, saying that this message has been passed along from Jerusalem to Cairo.
The Egyptian official says Israel has thus far dismissed Cairo’s efforts to mediate any sort of de-escalation, indicating that it wants to deal a knock-out blow to Hamas before entertaining the idea of a ceasefire.
So when Israel is systematically destroying Hamas, do you think that there is any chance that Hezbollah will just sit on the sidelines and watch it happen?
No way.
In fact, a Hamas official has stated that Hezbollah “will join the battle” if Gaza is invaded…
A senior Hamas official warned Israel on Tuesday that Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah “will join the battle if Gaza is subjected to a war of annihilation,” according to the Associated Press.
That is why the Israelis are sending so many military resources to the northern border.
They know that this will be a two front war…
On the third day of war between Hamas and Israel, residents of northern Israel were rushing to evacuate towns near the Lebanese border and buying essentials in preparation for a possible escalation.
As in much of the country, an eerie silence prevailed throughout the north, broken only by the rain showers periodically breaking over the area.
Driving up from central Israel, there was relatively little traffic on what is usually one of Israel’s busiest highways, Highway 6. On both sides of the road, tanks and military bulldozers on carriers headed to the southern and northern border.
But it won’t end there.
As I mentioned yesterday, Israel has reportedly warned Hezbollah that Damascus will be destroyed if Hezbollah tries to send troops into Israel…
Israel gives clear warning to Hezbollah:
If Hezbollah joins the war, the IDF will completely destroy Damascus and will directly target the Iran-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Moreover, US warships will support Israel in this war. This message was delivered by Israel via France.
So that would bring Syria into the war.
And I think that it is a very ominous sign that Israel and Syria are already exchanging artillery fire…
The IDF said it was responding to shells fired from Syria into Israel on Tuesday night.
Some of the shells most likely landed in open fields in Israel’s Golan Heights, the military added.
The IDF responded with artillery and mortar fire toward the source of the Syrian shelling.
If Israel ends up fighting Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria all at the same time, do you think that Iran will be able to stay out of the war?
The Iranians seem to fear direct military conflict, but it seems unlikely that they would refuse to fight if all of their allies in the region were getting pummeled by the Israelis. And leaders from the two nations have already been exchanging some very harsh words…
“A senior Israeli government source said Monday that Israel has indications that Iran pushed Hamas into carrying out its massive infiltration and deadly assault, and that Iran was also pushing Hezbollah to be ready for conflict with Israel,” the Times of Israel reported.
Khamenei predicted that Israeli military operations would backfire. “The calculation of the illegitimate regime and its supporters in this regard is also wrong,” he said. “The rulers and decision-makers of the Zionist regime and their supporters should know that these actions will bring a greater disaster upon them, and the Palestinian people, with a firmer determination, will slap their hideous faces harder in response to these crimes.”
Of course the moment that Iran launches missiles at Israel, the U.S. will enter the conflict. On Tuesday, Joe Biden made it very clear that the U.S. is standing with Israel in this fight…
President Joe Biden said the U.S. stands with Israel after Hamas’ brutal massacre in Israel, condemning the attack as “pure, unadulterated evil” and pledging to support Israel with military aid as war erupts in the Middle East.
“At this moment, we must be crystal clear: We stand with Israel,” Biden said Tuesday in remarks from the White House State Dining Room. “We will make sure Israel has what it needs to take care of its citizens, defend itself and respond to this attack. There’s no justification for terrorism. There’s no excuse.”
And Biden also confirmed that some of the hostages that are being held by Hamas are U.S. citizens…
Biden said Israel has a “right to respond and indeed has a duty to respond” four days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Hamas.
“There are moments in this life − I mean this literally − when pure unadulterated evil is unleashed in this world,” Biden said. “The people of Israel lived through one such moment this weekend.”
An estimated 100 to 150 people in Israel were kidnapped by Hamas militants and are being held captive in Gaza. That includes some Americans, Biden confirmed for the first time.
Hamas made a huge strategic mistake when it decided to take U.S. citizens hostage.
If they were smart, they would return those U.S. citizens immediately. But they aren’t going to do that. So now Joe Biden will have some decisions to make.
Will the U.S. also get involved in the conflict? One retired general seems to think so…
The US is likely to directly intervene with air and naval strikes if Israel’s existence is threatened, Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffrey said.
Speaking on Sunday on MSNBC’s “Weekends with Alex Witt,” the four-star US Army general described how such an escalation likely would only occur if Israel’s Middle Eastern neighbors became heavily involved.
“The other shoe we’re waiting to see if it drops is, will Hezbollah intervene out of Lebanon with their 100,000 some odd rockets? Will the West Bank ignite? And what will the Syrians and the Egyptians do?” McCaffrey said.
“I would suggest to you our support of Israel will be absolute, and if we see Syrian military intervention, active Iranian military intervention, we’ll go to war,” McCaffrey added.
For a long time, I have been warning that a great war would be coming to the Middle East.
But it has arrived a bit sooner than I thought.
Once Israeli troops move into Gaza, global events will start to move at a pace that will be absolutely breathtaking.
And at this moment it appears that the beginning of a ground operation could potentially be just hours away.
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Respect for Snyder’s extensive military experience (JUST KIDDING, as usual, he doesn’t know squat)! US Special Ops and Forward Observers are already forward positioned where Hezbollah might enter into Israel, as they have dealt with them in Syria! Syria has already launched rockets into Israel, Hezbollah has already tried to enter and been repulsed —- Damascus should be destroyed, Syrians are the vilest of the vilest, the lowest form of degenerate life on the planet! (Nondebatable! US should never have been in Syria, this was a massive failure point in pro–communist American policy!)
Meanwhile Syrians and Pakistanis of unknown origin continue to illegally pour across the US southern border —— again, major thanks to lowlife traitor maggot, MARK ESPER, for restructuring the the Pentagon and military into a communist organization when he was SecDef under Trump (implemented DEI: communist political minder systems which evidently I am the only citizen in North America who comprehends this —— mass psychosis or what?????)!?
This has all the earmarks of the CCP/China in the background —— do we really believe the extensive planning came from Iran . . . or China? End days????
Gee – – what happened to all the shocking revelations about the Biden crime family? Or even Ukraine? It’s all Israel, Israel, Israel now with another international gangbang orgy of death and destruction towards a basically imprisoned and defenseless Palestinian population. Does Israel have the whole world compromised? Who profits here?
1) Israel, Nutty Yahoo has always wanted to do a final “mowing of the lawn”, destroying Gaza at any price 2) War hawks everywhere. Ukraine and now Hamas Israel. An early Christmas present. 3) Just look at all the victims after the false flag 911. Millions and counting. Now Israel has its “911” and they are even better at killing than the Americans! 4) Another “justification” to bomb Iran with Iran always being the benefactor of “terrorism” while Israel practices it on the world stage and takes pride in it!
The definition maker of words control this world!
I pray Israel does not enter Gaza, I hope they siege g=Gaza for 6 months, bomb Gaza to rubble, kill every living thing there until they beg for mercy. Then increase the bombing.
Siege! No food, no water, no fuel and no medicine until nothing moves in Gaza for 1 months, then send in kill squads to hunt and kill anything left!
Israel, ask our experts in Special Forces about Fallujah!