European diplomats rule out bigger Israel-Hezbollah war https://t.co/YdsxhzUP1u
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A major war between Israel and Hezbollah is ruled out until the moment and the U.S. and La Belle France have played a key role in weakening this possibility, European diplomatic sources said.
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...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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, but the supposed regional and international parties of this war understood its calamities and destructive results in advance and managed to avoid it, even preventing any wrong calculation that could lead to igniting the war," the sources added, in remarks to al-Joumhouria newspaper published Wednesday.
And as a Lebanese official said "the chances of a broad war remain present as long as the Israeli aggression against Gaza and Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...continues," Lebanese diplomatic sources told the daily that Washington is "serious about preventing an expansion of the war."
Over 190 people have been killed in Lebanon during more than three months of cross-border festivities, including over 140 Hezbollah fighters and over 20 civilians, among them three journalists. In northern Israel, nine soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to Israeli authorities.
The fighting has also displaced tens of thousands of Lebanese and Israeli residents on both sides of the border and Israel says it is keen on returning its residents to their homes even if that required a military campaign.