The top U.S. military officer warned on Sunday that any Israeli military offensive into Lebanon would risk an Iranian response in defense of the powerful Hezbollah militant group there, triggering a broader war that could put U.S. forces in the region in danger.
Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Iran "would be more inclined to support Hezbollah." He added that Tehran supports Hamas militants in Gaza, but would give greater backing to Hezbollah "particularly if they felt that Hezbollah was being significantly threatened."
Are you kidding? Hezballah IS Iran. They fund it, they arm them, they train them, they allow Hezballah to conduct training exercises in Iran.
Are you kidding me?
Brown spoke to reporters as he traveled to Botswana for a meeting of African defense ministers.
Israeli officials have threatened a military offensive in Lebanon if there is no negotiated end to push Hezbollah away from the border. Just days ago, Israel's military said it had "approved and validated" plans for an offensive in Lebanon, even as the U.S. works to prevent the months of cross-border attacks from spiraling into a full-blown war.
Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel
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Netanyahu said Sunday he hoped a diplomatic solution could be achieved but said he would solve the problem "in a different way" if needed. ″We can fight on several fronts and we are prepared to do that," he said.
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U.S. President Joe Biden's senior adviser, Amos Hochstein, met with officials in Lebanon and Israel last week in an effort to deescalate tensions. Hochstein told reporters in Beirut on Tuesday that it was a "very serious situation" and that a diplomatic solution to prevent a larger war was urgent.
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech last Wednesday that militant leaders from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and other countries have previously offered to send tens of thousands of fighters to help Hezbollah, but he said the group already has more than 100,000 fighters.
The leftwing position on this, as held by Biden and the rotten governments of Europe, is that Israel should simply absorb unending warfare against it, and unending deaths, because if they retaliate or, even worse, attempt to win a war that enemies are waging against it, this will cause "instability in the region."
Well the current status quo is intolerable, so we'll have to risk "instability."
And of course the WEF caucus has decided that Iran is our Partner in Peace (TM), for reasons too bizarre to even fathom. It could have just been Obama's deep-rooted antisemitism that is driving this realignment with the terror mullahs.
An even bigger reason for the pressure by leftwing governments in the US and Europe is, of course, that we have large Muslim populations, and those populations vote with the left.
So once again, Dearborn, Michigan gets to set US policy.