Oct. 11—Israel’s Security Cabinet met last night to discuss plans for its yet-to-take-place strike against Iran for its Oct. 1 missile attack on Israel. Sources report that the decision has been made for a limited air strike on military targets, which exclude the provocative targets of the Iranian nuclear bomb project site or the oil fields and related infrastructure—targets desired by Israel’s bloodthirsty Prime Minister, the Butcher of Gaza, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu—hits on which are deemed likely to provoke an all-out Iranian response leading to a regional war which Bibi wants to involve the United States in on his side.
Meanwhile, frantic behind-the-scenes diplomatic efforts are taking place to end the fighting on the Northern Front, and perhaps even in Gaza, with a ceasefire deal, and the withdrawal of Hezbollah from Lebanese border areas close to northern Israel—moves, according a source informed of the moves, that would “cut the balls off Netanyahu.”
This morning, Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said that Hezbollah agrees to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701 from 2006, which mandates the withdrawal of its forces from southern Lebanon to north of the Litani River. Mikati added that Lebanon will ask the UN Security Council for a new resolution calling for a cease-fire with Israel, and that he has discussed with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken efforts for a truce. Yesterday, Blinken’s State Department denied any knowledge of ceasefire talks.
Meanwhile, reports have it that if the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire is implemented, Egypt and Qatar may submit a new proposal, crafted by CIA Director William Burns, for a ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas in Gaza, but which NATO whore and Democrat Party Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has bullied Biden into having Burns withhold the plan, in order, she believes, to bolster Zionist support and secure Jewish votes Nov. 5.
The cabinet meeting was reported to be heated, with Netanyahu launching into a Hitler-like tirade against his Israel Defense Forces Generals and Security Services for lacking the guts to seize the opportunity to finally deal with Iran, for lacking the nerve to fully dismantle and destroy Iran’s proxy Hezbollah on the northern front, and for giving in to international pressure to end the war in Gaza. The military and security services, represented by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, said Bibi’s stated goal in Gaza to completely wipe out Hamas was insane and unachievable, and that continuing to fight there will not yield positive results, and will kill all the remaining hostages held by Hamas. Gallant has stated that Israel has completed the mission of making Hamas no longer a threat to Israel. He called for an end to that war, a ceasefire, and a hostage deal, along the terms proposed in the modified American ceasefire-hostage/prisoner exchange deal, which most of the Hamas leadership, with the exception of its chief and Bibi’s co-evil twin Yahya Sinwar have accepted. Netanyahu, who has sabotaged all previous deals, has recently demanded that Sinwar must agree to surrender and then be exiled to another country, with anyone he wants to take with him.
Sources report that on the Northern Front, it is the military and Gallant, and not Israel’s Hitler, Bibi, who are making the decisions in the war, that now involves a limited invasion of southern Lebanon and continuous strikes on Hezbollah leaders and infrastructure. The IDF’s stated intent is to drive Hezbollah north of the Litani River, eliminating much of its capability to strike northern Israel and thus allow the more than 80,000 Israelis who have been displaced since Oct. 7 by Hezbollah rocket attacks to return to the safety of their homes. “The military, it seems, will not allow Bibi to unleash a Gaza-like genocide in the West Bank and Lebanon,” said a source familiar with Israeli policy discussions. Hezbollah is not Hamas, and a war with them would kill thousands of Israeli soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Such a war would force an Iranian response, and get Bibi his wider war, which would be a global disaster.
“The only way really to secure the Northern Front is through diplomacy,” said the source. “Some 18 years ago, there was a fragile peace there, following the last bloody war in Lebanon. That was shattered by the events of Oct. 7, and more importantly, Bibi’s response in Gaza. Hezbollah has already said it would end the fighting, without condition, and would seek a negotiated settlement. This has given some strength to the plan for a more moderate response to Iran, with strikes limited to military targets. That, and the rather stern response that Bibi got in his talks with President ‘Sleepy Joe’ Biden two days ago, in which the President made clear that the U.S. would not necessarily come to Israel’s support, should an IDF attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities or its oil fields provoke a regional war.”
Biden also remains furious with Bibi for his sabotage of what the world came to know as the Biden proposal for peace in Gaza. A source reports that an angry Biden shouted out to a blustering Bibi, “What the hell is wrong with you, man? You don’t want peace? You hate peace? Your own people want peace and want to return the hostages. You want war, even if it kills your people held hostage. That’s no policy. War is no policy.” Bibi was pissed as hell, but he had to take it. And Biden did not back up his words with a threat to cut off aid, if Bibi does things that widen the war.
The cabinet agreed to the limited strike, with Netanyahu eventually going along. It is thought that the attack will not take place until after Yom Kippur, the Jewish high holy “Day of Atonement” Oct. 12.
That may yet give diplomacy a chance to work its ways. The source reported that there are other considerations involved: “If Israel attacks Iran, then there could be another response, tit for tat, so to speak. Iran did not target civilians in its Oct. 1 missile attack; it went after IDF bases. A surprising number of the missiles got through Israel’s defenses, even with shoot-down support provided by American warships in the area. It seemed to demonstrate that with a larger attack on military facilities, Iran could do a lot of damage—a possibility the Israeli military is certainly taking into consideration.”
And then there is the status of the commander of the elite Qods Force of the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps, Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani, who has not been seen in public since Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a massive air strike on Beirut Sept. 27. Gen. Qaani had been sent to Lebanon ostensibly to help Hezbollah rebuild its leadership that had been decimated by Israeli strikes. But sources report that Oaani, whom the IDF had reported they had killed in an Oct. 4 raid on Beirut, is alive and is under investigation in Iran for being an Israeli asset, who helped provide the intelligence required by Israel for its strikes on the Hezbollah leadership. These sources report that suspicion was cast on him after the successor to Nasrallah, Hashem Safieddine, was also reported killed by an Israeli strike.
“This raises some other nasty questions,” said a source. “Nasrallah was known to be working toward a negotiated peace on the Northern Front, which made him an enemy of Bibi’s plans. It is reported that Qaani has been pushing Hezbollah to be more aggressive against Israel. This may also explain the killing July 31 of Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas, who was pushing for Hamas to lay down its arms. He was killed either by a projectile fired by an IDF operative or by a remotely detonated bomb planted in the Tehran compound where he was staying, under the protection of the Qods Force, during the funeral for the former Iranian President. Haniyah’s death turned Hamas over to the vicious Yahya Sinwar, who wants endless war, just like his co-evil twin Bibi.”
Yesterday, Sky News Arabic reported Qaani had suffered a heart attack while under interrogation. His condition is unknown at this time.
And, last but not least, Sinwar, who some—more in hope than with knowledge—had reported was killed by an Israeli strike last month in Gaza, resurfaced yesterday to call for Palestinians to martyr themselves by becoming walking bombs, “to kill the Zionists.” Israel is reported to be on high alert for such attacks on Yom Kippur. Sinwar, sources report, remains the main obstacle on the Hamas side to a ceasefire deal. “Isn’t it strange that somehow the IDF has never managed to get this guy,” said another source, who reported that Arab sources say he is in a tunnel somewhere in Gaza surrounded by hostages as a shield against IDF attack.
