by Michael
What we just witnessed in the Middle East shocked the entire globe. Sadly, a lot more death and destruction is coming. Whether they are both willing to admit it or not, the truth is that Israel and Hezbollah are at war. It is just a limited war for now, but it is only a matter of time before it escalates into an “all-out war” that kills vast numbers of people on both sides. It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out how this ends. When there is an existential conflict that involves two parties which absolutely refuse to back down, only one party is ultimately going to survive. Unfortunately, most people have absolutely no idea what is coming.
It appears that we may have already reached a point of no return. After the attack that occurred on Tuesday, Hezbollah will be more determined to wipe out Israel than ever before…
At about 3:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, pagers started heating up and then exploding in the pockets and hands of those carrying them — particularly in a southern Beirut suburb and the Beqaa region of eastern Lebanon where Hezbollah has a strong presence, and in Damascus, where several Hezbollah members were wounded, Lebanese security officials and a Hezbollah official said. The Hezbollah official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
When I first heard about this, it sounded like something out of a science fiction movie.
Apparently the pagers that exploded had been recently purchased by Hezbollah…
The pagers that exploded had been newly acquired by Hezbollah after the group’s leader ordered members to stop using cell phones, warning they could be tracked by Israeli intelligence. A Hezbollah official told The Associated Press the pagers were a new brand the group had not used before.
So how in the world did Israel pull this off?
As I write this article, there are two main theories that are being floated…
It’s not currently clear exactly how the explosions happened. Two main theories are being bandied about by security experts. Some believe Israel, through its shadow Mossad intelligence agency, managed to send out a mass cyberattack that overheated the lithium ion batteries of the pagers.
Others believe Mossad was able to slip into Hezbollah’s supply chain, sneaking explosive material into the pagers as they were manufactured, which would later be triggered by a mass message to the devices.
It seems unlikely that simply overheating the lithium ion batteries of the pagers could have caused the immense devastation that we witnessed.
At least one news source is claiming that the Mossad was somehow able to implant explosive material inside the devices before they were delivered to Hezbollah…
Sky News Arabia quotes sources saying that today’s large-scale pager attack in Lebanon was possible because the Mossad spy agency got hold of Hezbollah’s communication devices before they were handed over to the terror group.
The Israeli spy agency placed a quantity of PETN, a highly explosive material, on the batteries of the devices, and detonated them by raising the temperature of the batteries from afar, the source says.
I think that all of us will be looking at our electronic devices differently from this point forward.
When they woke up on Tuesday, thousands of Hezbollah militants had no idea that they were about to be maimed by the pagers that they were carrying around…
Video footage from inside a Beirut supermarket appears to show the moment Israel sent out its deadly message.
A Hezbollah attacker was seen confusedly lifting his shirt up at a supermarket after getting a message on his pager, which lit up.
He stared at it for a second before it detonated, collapsing him in an instant as supermarket workers and fellow shoppers panicked and fled.
After the explosions occurred, local hospitals were soon overwhelmed by the injured and the dying…
Another video showed patients writhing on the floor in agony as medical staff try desperately to treat them.
White bandages can be seen wrapped around the limbs of people inside a hospital, with doctors’ white coats covered in blood as they try to get through the throng of people inside the medical institution.
Men, women and children can be heard howling in agony, while doctors and nurses try to shout over the noise to communicate with each other.
As I write this article, it is being reported that 11 people are dead and approximately 4,000 more have been wounded…
Lebanon’s health ministry updates the death toll in the pager explosions to 11.
Another 4,000 are wounded, including 400 in critical condition, according to ministry numbers cited by Arabic-language media.
After what we just witnessed, the conflict should be over.
If Hezbollah was smart, they would throw in the towel and pull their forces north of the Litani River.
But that isn’t going to happen.
Instead, the thirst for revenge will just be even stronger than it was before.
Of course Israel is not going to back down either.
There are approximately 100,000 Israelis that have not been able to return to their homes in northern Israel for months, and Hezbollah continues to strike targets in Israeli territory on a regular basis.
So it appears that the IDF will soon be conducting a major military operation in southern Lebanon…
Israel has for months warned that it could launch a military operation to drive Hezbollah away from its border.
Orna Mizrachi, a former Israeli national security official, said in a call with reporters that the pager attack could signal that Israel is about to change its Gaza war strategy, where it has been fighting Hamas for almost a year, and move its main front to the north to fight Hezbollah.
There are some experts that are suggesting that Israel may initiate such an operation before the U.S. presidential election in November.
If an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah erupts, it is going to make the Biden/Harris administration look really bad, and it will likely cost Kamala Harris thousands of Muslim votes in Michigan and other swing states.
Needless to say, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not want Kamala Harris to win the election.
But when all-out war erupts, Israel isn’t just going to be fighting Hezbollah.
For years, Iran has been arming groups throughout the region “for this very showdown”…
The Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq, and the terrorist organizations in Gaza, Judea and Samaria – for years Iran has been equipping its allies for this very showdown.
If all of Israel’s enemies unite, IDF forces will quickly find themselves outnumbered.
But of course Israel possesses technology that the other side does not.
When push comes to shove, both sides will try to absolutely crush one another, and that will be truly horrifying to watch.
When I write about “apocalyptic” wars, I am not exaggerating one bit.
It would be in everyone’s best interest for opposing sides to step back from the brink in the Middle East, in Ukraine, and elsewhere.
The wars that are in our future are going to involve weapons of unthinkable destructive power, and those wars are going to be far more horrible than most people would dare to imagine.