Hats off to the IDF, IAF, and Benjamin Netanyahu for an absolute masterclass on how to wage war and defeat one’s opponents. In what has widely been praised as the most ingenious and successful series of highly targeted strikes against a terrorist organization in the history of modern warfare, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Mossad, the IAF, and IDF have completely defanged and dismantled Hezbollah and brutally humiliated its state sponsor Iran. First, a quick run-through of the 14 Days of Israeli Military Mastery.
Sept 17 – On the morning of September 17, Israel announces a new focus of their war: having essentially dismantled Hamas in Gaza, it is now time to return tens of thousands of Israeli citizens who have been displaced by a constant barrage of rocket and missile fire from Hezbollah in Lebanon into northern Israel since Oct 8 of last year. In what has been subsequently dubbed “Operation Grim Beeper,” Israel causes thousands of pagers that had been issued directly by Hezbollah leadership to the groups lower level members to explode across Lebanon and Syria, killing at least 13 terrorists and critically injuring (blowing the balls off of) roughly 4000 Hezbollah operatives. There is abundant cc footage of these explosions happening, and honestly, they get funnier with every viewing.
Sept 18 – Hezbollah leadership bans the use of their pagers (which pagers they adopted when they figured out Israel had access to all of their cellular communications), and instructs its members to now use only walkie-talkies. A couple of hours after that instruction is given, Israel blows up the walkie-talkies, killing another 14 terrorist shitbags and severely wounding about 400. Footage of these explosions is not as abundant, but still just as funny.
Sept 19 – Israel strikes hundreds of rocket launchers in southern Lebanon that were poised to be launched into northern Israel, knocking out a significant amount of Hezbollah once-formidable firepower. Iran, Syria, and Lebanon all ban beepers, walkie-talkies, and other communications devices on airplanes. Communications between Hezbollah’s senior leadership and its soldiers as well as with each other has been completely destroyed. Senior leadership decides that in-person meetings are the only “safe” way to communicate.
Sept 20 – The first such meeting of Hezbollah takes place commanders takes place. Following long-standing human-shield policy, Hezbollah intentionally hold their meeting in a residential building in a highly populated suburb of Beirut at the height of rush hour, knowing that the West no longer has any stomach for winning an actual war, and as long as Biden holds Israel’s leash, they won’t strike in an area where there are likely to be civilian casualties. But Netanyahu, having grown exhausted with Biden’s egregious incompetence combined with his senility and Harris’s egregious incompetence combined with her antisemitism, has stopped asking for permission. In fact, he’s stopped even notifying Biden/Harris, the U.S. State Department, or anyone else in American government what Israel’s plans are. So Israel blows the hell out of the apartment building killing 37 people. Israel announces that they had killed Ibrahim Akil, Hezbollah’s military commander. Later, Hezbollah confirmed Akil’s death along with 15 other senior Hezbollah commanders. This particular shitbag had been wanted by the U.S. for the 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut. According to the Israeli military, Akil had been planning an October 7 attack in Northern Israel, designed to mirror the October 7th attack by Hamas the previous year.
Sept 21 – The IAF simply Puts It To Hezbollah, hitting some 400 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, including more rocket launchers and “military infrastructure.” Ayatollah Khameini goes into hiding somewhere in Iran. Mossad likely knows exactly where.
Sept 22 – Heavy fire is exchanged between Hezbollah and Israel overnight and into the morning. Witnesses report “huge explosions that lit up the night sky.” Israel hits 290 targets, including still more rocket launchers, while Hezbollah managed to lob some rockets deeper into Israel than in previous days. This just pisses Israel off.
Sept 23 – Israel courtesy calls the entire population of southern Lebanon telling them quite clearly to GTFO most ricky-tick just hours before bombing the piss out of the entire area with over 1300 airstrikes, killing 558 people, and injuring more than 1800. Hezbollah fires more than 200 rockets into northern Israel, the vast majority of which are intercepted by Iron Dome and David’s Sling. Hezbollah fires rockets into Haifa for the first time in the war.
Sept 24 – Fire between Hezbollah and Israel continues through the night. Israel again courtesy calls the fools who didn’t heed yesterday’s warning and managed to survive, to, again, GTFO tout de suite, and again, hours later, proceeds to bomb the shit out of the place, killing dozens more. Among these are Ibrahim Kobeissi, the head of Hezbollah’s missile division.
Sept 25 – Hezbollah launches a long-range missile at Tel Aviv, the first time the shitbags have targeted Central Israel. The missile is shot down by Israeli forces. Israel continues airstrikes across southern Lebanon, killing another 72 people and injuring 400. Israel calls up two additional brigades of reserves for a ground invasion of Lebanon.
Sept 26 – The vaginal United Nations General Assembly proposes an absurd 21-day ceasefire agreement. Which is pretty rich considering Hezbollah has been rocketing Israel daily for damn near a year and nobody said shit. Israel tells the U.N. to go screw. Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets into Israel, most of which are batted down easily. Israel responds with 200 airstrikes, none of which were intercepted, and 92 people die and 150 are wounded. One of those killed is Mohammed Hussein Sarour, the commander of Hezbollah’s air force.
Sept 27 – Surprisingly, in the middle of a rapidly escalating seven-front war, Bibi Netanyahu flies to New York to address the aforementioned vaginal United Nations General Assembly. It’s widely speculated that he’s going to show up hat-in-hand and propose some middle ground or “limited military response” in response to the idiotic ceasefire agreement proposed the day before, in the hopes of appeasing the Biden administration enough to get restart delivery of 2000lbs bombs.
Nope.
With timing and panache lifted directly from “The Godfather,” Netanyahu strides up to the podium and proceeds to absolutely blast the whole wretched United Nations, calling it a “swamp of antisemitic bile.” [Fact Check: True] Rather than mincing around and asking for help, Bibi delivers a fiery speech telling these cowards that Israel is “winning” on all seven fronts and would continue to attack Iran and its proxies anywhere in the Middle East. He delivers these lines knowing that 10 minutes before the speech, he gave a significant order to the IAF. Just as he concludes his U.N. speech, southern Beirut is absolutely rocked by a series of airstrikes which demolish several residential buildings, which blasts can be felt throughout the city. Israel immediately announces they have targeted Hezbollah Headquarters.
Sept 28 – A few hours later, Israel announces that the blast has killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, a fact confirmed by Hezbollah hours later. This strike totally reshapes the calculous of the Middle East.
Sept 29 – Israel targets the Houthis (another Iranian proxy group) in Yemen, who had targeted Tel Aviv with a missile strike the day before, sending the IAF to blow the hell out of the Yemeni city of Huydaydah, destroying multiple power plants and the city’s large seaport, which was “used by the Houthis to transfer Iranian weapons to the region.”
Oct 1 – Israel begins ground invasion of southern Lebanon. The IDF carried out “limited” raids in villages hear the border while the IDF continued to pummel the rest of Lebanon. Iran, having been completely humiliated daily on the world stage for two weeks, launches the largest ballistic missile attack in history on Israel, firing over 200 missiles in two waves of attacks. All of these missiles are intercepted, shot down, and thwarted. There is some property damage, but the only reported death is that of a Palestinian from Gaza who had snuck into southern Israel. Israel vows “significant retaliation,” within days.
Oct 7 – The anniversary of the vile, subhuman Hamas attack on Israel. The world awaits Israel’s response to Iran. Popular speculation includes 1) Israel destroying Iran’s oil production facilities, which would permanently devastate the Iranian economy, 2) wiping out Iran’s air defense systems and nuclear facilities, and 3) targeted strikes/assassinations, forcing regime change in Iran once the Islamic Republic government is dissolved and the Mullahs and Ayatollahs have been torn apart by the Persian masses. I strongly advocate for taking all three actions. Additionally, as sort of punctuation for emphasis, I would sink their navy. Just to really drive the point home. What is certain is this: in the last year, Israel has taken both of Iran’s knights off the table, and Iran has been exposed as an embarrassing paper tiger.
The two knights are, of course, Hamas and Hezbollah. At the start of this war, Hamas had somewhere between 5000 to 20,000 medium and long-range rockets, and around 30,000 fighters. Hezbollah was estimated to have 150,000 more advanced rockets and missiles, as well as sophisticated Shahed 136 suicide drones and anti-ship weapons. Two weeks ago, they boasted well over 100,000 fighters. Perhaps the reader will notice an egregious discrepancy in these two terrorist forces. And perhaps this will inspire the reader to wonder how it is that it has taken Israel a year now to eradicate Hamas, with questions remaining as to the fate of the hostages and Hamas’ leader, Yahya Sinwar, yet it took Israel a mere 14 days to completely dismantle and defang the many-times-larger-and-better-funded Hezbollah, with minimal “civilian” casualties and certainty that it’s all of its leadership, including their General Secretary, are dead.
Ponder this, dear reader, and we shall continue our discussion soon.
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