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Israel has secretly warned Syria that it may strike the country if Hizbullah attacks the Jewish state
In the event of an attack by Hizbullah from the north, Israeli military officials have made it clear that they will hold Syria responsible even if their attack is staged from Lebanese soil. In fact, they went so far as to say that they would strike back hard at Syria's infrastructure as they did against Lebanon in 2006.
Many believe that Israel learned a valuable lesson in their last fight with Hizbullah back in 2006. This is what The Economist had to say regarding a scenario that starts with a flare-up with Hamas that would likely lead to an attack by Hizbullah in the north. The scenario begins with Hamas rockets once again targeting Israeli border towns.
"Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, finds he can no longer resist pressure to end the rocket fire, a job that military men say can be achieved, if at all, only by a ground invasion. But ground warfare against Hamas's guerrilla fighters in the teeming confines of Gaza will certainly kill many Palestinian civilians. That will tempt Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah in Lebanon, to help his fellow Islamists by opening a second front from Lebanon. Since Hizbullah's own 'divine victory' against Israel in the summer of 2006, its arsenal of rockets is reported to have been more than replenished by its Syrian and Iranian mentors—and beefed up with sophisticated longer-range missiles.
Since that war, an international buffer force of almost 15,000 peacekeeping soldiers has been installed in southern Lebanon. But don't be soothed. They, in the private view of many of the providing governments, would become little more than hostages in the event of serious fighting. Hizbullah has kept most of its new rockets north of the Litani river, from where they can simply be fired into Israel over the peacekeepers' heads. At most, the peacekeepers would complicate another Israeli effort to defeat Hizbullah by launching another ground invasion of Lebanon.
Here is where this worst-case scenario turns truly nightmarish. Mr Olmert learnt in Lebanon that a guerrilla army, especially one as well trained and armed as Hizbullah's, is hard to destroy. So there is in Israel a school of thought that advocates counter-attacking not only against Hizbullah but also against Syria, Mr Nasrallah's helper and armourer. The government of a state, goes the argument, will find it a lot harder than a non-state actor like Hizbullah did in 2006 to shrug off the sort of damage Israel inflicted on Lebanon's infrastructure. Syria's armed forces, moreover, are conventional—the kind that Israel thinks it knows how to beat. Israel's mysterious air raid in Syria last September may have been designed to show that it is not afraid of taking the Syrians on." The Economist
You may have noticed that The Economist is a little bit on the liberal side in stating that Hizbullah's last war with Israel was a 'divine victory'. Hizbullah declaring victory in 2006 is like a prize fighter coming back to his corner after taking a tremendous beating and telling his manager that he thinks his face is really hurting his opponents hands. Israel may have lost a few more soldiers than expected, but by no means were they defeated. They just weren't quite as overwhelming as many around the world thought they would be against a guerrilla style army such as Hizbullah.
Nonetheless, The Economist does bring to light a strategy that Israel may adopt not only with Syria but with Iran as well.
From a Biblical perspective, the sands of the end times are beginning to run out and soon will come to a climactic end. Israel has reduced its time to when it must act against Iran to less than a year and may be joined by the United States in a preemptive move before it's all over.
As we edge closer to the inevitable, another prophetic front continues to take shape. Apparently, US military officials are very worried over China's continued military build up in these last days. Little do they know that it is in preparation for them to one-day rise up and wreak death and destruction across the known world (Revelation 9:16) with a standing army of 200 million. They are one of only two countries in the world who could actually field such a massive ground force (the other country-India).
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Terry Malone
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