WhatsappJust over a day after Hezbollah fired an Iranian made Falaq-1 missile into a soccer field in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Northern Golan, killing 12 children, Israel’s security cabinet voted to give Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the power to decide when and how to respond to Hezbollah’s massacre.
The attack came as a shock with the Prime Minister still in the USA - forcing him to fly back early. Most people believe that this attack crossed enough red lines to push the region over into total war. Already, Turkey’s Erdogan and Iran’s Ayatollah have threatened all out war with Israel, the Jewish State “goes too far.”
Despite the threats, politicians on both the right and left in Israel have begun to sound the war drumes.
“For the deaths of little children, [Hezbollah chief Hassan] Nasrallah should pay with his head,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich tweeted,” asserting that it was “time for action” and that “Lebanon as a whole has to pay the price.”
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said that “since October 8th I have said that we are in a state of war in the north and the enemy needs to be defeated,” but Israeli decision-makers “avoided acknowledging that we are in a battle against Hezbollah for 10 months.” He called for “war in the north now!”
Culture and Sport Minister Miki Zohar demanded that Israel “stop procrastinating and deal a fatal blow to Hezbollah,” arguing that “the more we postpone the campaign, the more painful will be the prices we pay.”
Opposition MKs also came out strongly in favor of retaliation against Hezbollah. New Hope MK Michel Buskila demanded that Jerusalem “tear Beirut apart” and Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman declared that Nasrallah must “pay the price” for his actions.
Hezbollah is taking the threats seriously and has moved out from some areas in Southern Lebanon with the expectation that Israel’s retaliation will be immense.
