by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
2024 has just started, and already we have seen major escalations in the Middle East and in Ukraine. Unfortunately, I believe that both of those conflicts will spiral out of control in 2024, and the U.S. military is simply not ready for such a scenario. This year, we will see things happen that once would have been unimaginable. But there is no turning back now. World War III has begun, and over the next 12 months things are going to get really crazy.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to kill the leaders of Hamas wherever they are found, and on Tuesday the IDF got a really big one.
Saleh Arouri had been hiding in a very heavily populated area of Beirut, and it was there that he was taken out by an Israeli drone strike…
An apparent Israeli strike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut killed Hamas’ No. 2 political leader Tuesday, marking a potentially significant escalation of Israel’s war against the militant group and heightening the risk of a wider Middle East conflict.
Saleh Arouri, who was the most senior Hamas figure killed since the war with Israel began, was also a founder of the group’s military wing. His death could provoke major retaliation by Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah militia.
Seeing more indications from a few reliable sources on social media that the explosion tonight in Dahiyeh, a #Hezbollah stronghold, may have been targeting a Palestinian HVT. Lots of #Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders frequent Beirut. pic.twitter.com/U2xNnYo8m7
— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) January 2, 2024
This was a very bold move.
It is being reported that the drone “hit an apartment in a building in a Shiite district of Beirut that is a Hezbollah stronghold”…
The strike hit an apartment in a building in a Shiite district of Beirut that is a Hezbollah stronghold, and Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has vowed to strike back against any Israeli targeting of Palestinian officials in Lebanon.
This is extremely embarrassing for Hezbollah, because this happened very close to Hezbollah’s headquarters right in the heart of Beirut.
So what will Hezbollah do now?
Will they strike back?
Following the attack, they released a very ominous statement that warned of “response and punishment”…
Hezbollah said in a statement that the targeting of Arouri “in the heart of the southern suburbs of Beirut” constituted “a serious attack on Lebanon, its people, its security, sovereignty and resistance.”
“We affirm that this crime will never pass without response and punishment,” it said.
I fully expect Hezbollah to respond very forcefully.
And Israel will respond even more forcefully to whatever Hezbollah does.
Hopefully things will settle down after a few days.
But even if that happens, there will be war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Netanyahu and other high ranking Israeli officials have clearly stated that Hezbollah must pull back beyond the Litani River.
Of course Hezbollah will never go willingly, and so the IDF will be used to push them back.
And once that happens missiles will start flying all over the place.
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