(The Economic Collapse Blog)—Now we are going to find out who was bluffing and who was not bluffing. Israeli troops have gone into Gaza, and we are being told that this is a war that could last for months. Of course it could easily last a lot longer than that. If the stated goal is to eliminate Hamas, that certainly won’t be easy. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling this a second war of independence, and he just told the world that “Never Again is now”…
Netanyahu said troops that he has met in the field are determined to make Hamas pay for its actions on October 7.
“They are determined to eradicate this evil from the world, for our existence and, I add — for all of humanity.”
Netanyahu continued: “We always said, ‘Never Again’. Never Again’ is now.”
So Israel was clearly not bluffing.
Now we shall see what Hezbollah does.
Hezbollah officials have warned multiple times that they will enter the war if Israel goes into Gaza. Was Hezbollah just bluffing?
So far, a limited number of rockets have been fired back and forth along Israel’s northern border since Netanyahu made his speech…
Several rocket volleys were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel on Sunday, and the Israel Defense Forces said it hit terror cells and sites belonging to the Hezbollah terror group, as skirmishes continued on the northern frontier and the army continues its war with Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip in the south.
According to the IDF, rockets were launched from Lebanon at the upper and western Galilee several times throughout the day, setting off sirens in towns including Kiryat Shmona, Nahariya, Shlomi, Tuba-Zangariyye, Rosh Pina, Ayelet Hashahar, and Hatzor Haglilit.
If this is all that Hezbollah does, the Israelis will greatly celebrate.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe that Hezbollah was just bluffing, and I think soon we will see some major moves from them.
I also don’t think that Iran was bluffing.
On Sunday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi publicly stated that the Israelis have “crossed the red lines” that Iran had established…
Israel has “crossed the red lines” in Gaza, which “may force everyone to take action,” Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said Sunday, while US national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned of an “elevated risk” of a spillover conflict in the Middle East.
Okay, so your “red lines” have been crossed.
What are you going to do about it? So far, the answer is not much.
But the Iranians are conducting “massive war games” right now…
IRAN has staged massive war games with 200 helicopters and missile launchers as tensions rage over Israel.
Tanks, aircraft and troops were deployed by the Islamic Republic for the exercise dubbed “Authority 1402”.
During these war games, the Iranians have been firing new versions of their domestically-made missiles…
Tehran’s military launched the drills – including using upgraded versions of their domestically-made missiles, Dawn and Diamond.
They also tested new bombs as well as attack helicopters.
The choppers launched missiles in the dark and destroyed the pretend enemy using night vision systems.
Of course these war games are not going to intimidate anyone.
If the Iranians intend to stop what is going on, they are going to have to take action.
For now, the Iranians are limiting themselves to conducting strikes on U.S. bases in the region through their proxies…
Attacks on US military outposts in Iraq and Syria have continued over the weekend. Al-Mayadeen news and other regional outlets have reported that there have been several attacks by Iran-backed militias on Saturday and Sunday. Russian media has also reported on the fresh attacks, calling recent Pentagon airstrikes on Syria an “unsuccessful bid to deter the militias.”
A statement by a coalition of Shia paramilitary groups said, “The Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted the American occupation base in Al-Tanf, Syria, with two drones, which directly hit their targets.” They carried out the attack from just across the Iraq border into Syria.
Reports say separately that the al-Shaddadi base in eastern Syria was also hit with two drones, and al-Omar base and oil field was struck. The latter was reportedly attacked a mere hours after the US airstrikes.
Al-Mayadeen had says ago cited a statement from the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades which said the group is willing to fight “a war of attrition against the enemy that will extend for years.”
The recent U.S. airstrikes were supposed to put an end to this.
Obviously that did not work. So what is Joe Biden’s next move?
Meanwhile,Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is making all sorts of noise.
At a pro-Palestinian rally on Saturday, he declared that Israel is “a war criminal”…
Türkiye will introduce Israel to the world as a war criminal, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.
Speaking at “Great Palestine Meeting,” a pro-Palestine rally in Istanbul, Erdogan said: “Israel, we will also declare you as a war criminal to the world, we are preparing for it, and we will introduce Israel to the world as a war criminal.”
Erdogan stressed that the Western world mobilized its politicians, and media to legitimize the massacre of the innocent people in Gaza, adding: “Israel is committing war crimes.”
And Erdogan also threatened Israel with potential military action…
In comments that have prompted Israeli outcry, and led the country to withdraw its diplomatic presence, president Erdogan suggested assaults on Gaza constituted a “massacre”.
In the same speech, he reportedly said that Turkey can “come at any night unexpectedly” to ecstatic reception from hundreds of thousands of attendees.
The footage, which is currently circulating on X, formerly known as Twitter, purportedly showed the pro-Palestine crowd responding with the chant: “Turkish military to Gaza.”
Would Turkey actually do such a thing?
Erdogan is completely nuts, but I can’t imagine that he would want to risk a direct conflict with Israel. If Turkey does attack Israel, would the U.S. strike Turkey? The U.S. and Turkey are both members of NATO, and so that would create quite an awkward situation.
My friends, we have truly entered unprecedented territory. A major war has erupted in the Middle East, and now we shall watch to see what all of the interested parties do next…
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I know that signing up to post comments is just a ruse to put people on a mailing list but I have to say this, until Libya and Russia join those others, there will be only the destruction of Israel’s enemy nearby neighbors.
Iran and Turkey will not invade until Russia and Libya joins them on the mountains of Israel by the Jordan river. It’s called the Ezekiel 38-39 war. I think Damascus will be destroyed before then.
I think what we are watching right now is Israel is finally taking the land that God commanded them to take.
Most people fail to realize that God gave the land from the Nile to the Euphrates to the children of Israel. It looks as if Israel is finally obeying God and as a result, Israel will take rest of that land, like they were supposed to back in Joshua’s time…
Israel is on a mission from God and will end up taking all of the land from the Nile to the Euphrates…
They are late but they finally got around to it and God is on their side because it was He that commanded them to take it in the first place when Israel crossed the Jordan River from their 40 year wandering in the desert…
Amen
Thank you for pointing this out.The globalist think they have a plan but it will never work the way they think.God is in control of the big picture that they think they are organizing.Evil will only abound so far.
It will all play out and there will be destruction and many will doubt.
The future has always belonged to God.The WEF and the so called global leaders will be squashed like the bugs they want us to eat.
Money and power make the elites feel safe in their evil small bubbles.
The folks that visited Epstein Island and helped develop the so called vaccine/Covid scam will see the truth of almighty God.
They have been tricked by the devil for a bag of silver but it won’t feed or redeem the Spirit.
Only the blood of Jesus can save.
I pray that they would see what they have done and repent for their disgusting actions.
I never understood why they allowed Turkey to join NATO. Erdogan is constantly at odds with the alliance.
I don’t believe that God left us an instruction booklet for the end times that required our figuring out how to use it, like some mysterious code breaker. There are several problems with this notion. For example, we can end up being self-fulfilling prophets. That is, we can make what we expect to happen become reality. Also, some will make critical life decisions based on questionable theories. Many of the apostles believed the end times would come in their lifetimes. Some cults believed the last days would be at millennial, the year 1000 or 2000. We may be in the end times of the Apocalyse. But who can know? And if we know, what can we do to change things? What we can do , is what we should always do: rely on God’s Providence, pray, and make the usual practical preparations for any occasion.
I don’t know where you got your information from but Peter knew that Jesus would not return until 2000 years later and Paul wrote and taught about it.
No one can say that the early Church didn’t know that Jesus would come in the 2nd day, meaning two thousand years later. How do we know? The fact is that letters have been found explaining the 2nd coming but they have been covered up, much like the skeletal remains of what’s left of the giants. There are forces that conspire to keep the truth hidden even though many books or letters have been written.
You are not alone, even the devil misunderstood what God said and ended up crucifying the Lord of Glory… Just like the Bible said he would.
The main reason the Bible is hard to understand is because you need to be born again, which at that time, the Holy Spirit will open your eyes to the Scriptures. No big mystery there, it’s supernatural…