Israeli commander: Hezbollah more ready than ever for any war

[Takaavar]

An Israeli commander has admitted that involvement of Lebanon’s Hezbollah in the fight against Takfiris in Syria has increased the defensive capabilities of the resistance movement for any future aggression by the Israeli regime.


“Hezbollah’s involvement in the war in Syria has not disrupted its preparedness for a war with Israel - the opposite is true,” said Colonel Yaron Formosa, a chief artillery officer of the Israeli regime, in an interview with Ynetnews on Wednesday.

He added that Hezbollah is closely monitoring the Israeli army’s activities along the border.

“We saw them marking the positions of our artillery guns so they can target them in a war,” Formosa said.


He added that Hezbollah fighters have become proficient in the use of advanced weapons due to the fighting against the militants in Syria.

“Hezbollah has tens of thousands of rockets that are aimed at Israel, and we will not be able to operate against them only with artillery fire or the air force.”

The Tel Aviv regime launched two wars on Lebanon in 2000 and 2006. About 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians, were killed in the 33-Day War of 2006.

On both occasions, however, Hezbollah fighters defeated the Israeli forces and Tel Aviv was forced to retreat without achieving any of its objectives.

In August 2012, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the resistance movement has both the capability and the courage to defend Lebanon and that the movement’s missiles are ready to strike back certain targets inside Israel in self-defense if Tel Aviv launches an attack on Lebanon.

“If we are forced to use them to protect our people and our country, we will not hesitate to do so... and that will turn the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists into a living hell,” Nasrallah said, adding that Hezbollah has fixed its targets.

He also said that a possible future war would be extremely costly for Israel and incomparable with its 2006 war on Lebanon.

PressTV - Israeli commander: Hezbollah more ready than ever for any war

 

[AUz]

Press TV is buttering Hezbollah..lol

Israeli Military is vastly superior to Hezbollah in terms of technology, preparedness, numbers, and military machine..

And I haven't even mentioned the most threatening Israeli weapon... The Israeli Air Force!!!!

Any future war with Israel will harm Israeli enemies much, much more......

Arabs need much more preparedness, unity, and industrial might to challenge Israel militarily.

 

[Tshering22]

Press TV is buttering Hezbollah..lol

Israeli Military is vastly superior to Hezbollah in terms of technology, preparedness, numbers, and military machine..

And I haven't even mentioned the most threatening Israeli weapon... The Israeli Air Force!!!!

Any future war with Israel will harm Israeli enemies much, much more......

Arabs need much more preparedness, unity, and industrial might to challenge Israel militarily.

They can't.

The main factor is the power struggle between Saudi and Iran... and for its own right reasons that no one can be blamed for.

The best option would be to accept peace. Israelis don't want to completely wipe out Gaza. They just want to preserve their country's current borders in any situation.

So a genuine peace process on their terms is best once and for all.

It is simple; if they poke a pin up to Israel, Israel retaliates with a missile in return.

What's the point of this endless ego warfare?

 

[AUz]

They can't.

The main factor is the power struggle between Saudi and Iran... and for its own right reasons that no one can be blamed for.

The best option would be to accept peace. Israelis don't want to completely wipe out Gaza. They just want to preserve their country's current borders in any situation.

So a genuine peace process on their terms is best once and for all.


What's the point of this endless ego warfare?

Israel doesn't want peace. It won't accept 1967 borders.

Evangelical Christian establishment of U.S doesn't want peace b/w Israel and Palestine...

Status quo suits Israel...Status quo always favor Imperialist/occupying power...and in this case, Israel is imperialist/occupying power in West bank...

It is simple; if they poke a pin up to Israel, Israel retaliates with a missile in return.

It would be fun to a contest b/w Al Qaeda and Israel...I wonder if Israel would be able to take on Al Qaeda alone...

 

[Tshering22]

Israel doesn't want peace. It won't accept 1967 borders.

Evangelical Christian establishment of U.S doesn't want peace b/w Israel and Palestine...

Tell me something; if Pakistan was to say, have a war with X country, who along with its allies were attacking Pakistan left right and centre. But thanks to your military training and superior techniques, you won, capturing enemy land as a bounty.

Would you return that land that your soldiers bled to death for?

Not only they defended their country, but also put extra pains into capturing enemy territory to teach them a lesson never to attack Pakistan again.

Would you give it back?

Not unless the world pushed you to sanctions, right?

A proud leader would do that.

So why expect Israel to return what it fought for?

They already returned Sinai peninsula to Egypt which is a massive chunk of land.

Status quo suits Israel...Status quo always favor Imperialist/occupying power...and in this case, Israel is imperialist/occupying power in West bank...

You have your opinion and have a right to express it. But I disagree.

We can discuss this in some other thread.

It would be fun to a contest b/w Al Qaeda and Israel...I wonder if Israel would be able to take on Al Qaeda alone...

It is never fun when an inhuman terrorist organization like AQ is fighting against anyone. Haven't their offshoots killed many of your countrymen?

These are cowards and fight for only the evil.

They have no humanity, no concern for civilians, nothing. Men, women, old people, kids.. they will kill, kidnap and destroy everyone.

Israel technically has always been on AQ list. But the good part with Israelis is that they're not alone the enemies of AQ. It includes many prominent countries around the world including Turkey, us, Russia, US, EU and a whole host of countries.

Officially, even your government is against Qaeda for killing Pakistanis.

However, your civilian government has very limited powers and therefore actions may differ.

 

[Developereo]

Translation: more military funding, please!

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

let's see how tough the IDF is going to be in the next round.

 

[AUz]

Tell me something; if Pakistan was to say, have a war with X country, who along with its allies were attacking Pakistan left right and centre. But thanks to your military training and superior techniques, you won, capturing enemy land as a bounty.

Would you return that land that your soldiers bled to death for?

Not only they defended their country, but also put extra pains into capturing enemy territory to teach them a lesson never to attack Pakistan again.

Would you give it back?

Not unless the world pushed you to sanctions, right?

A proud leader would do that.

So why expect Israel to return what it fought for?

Palestinians didn't fight Israelis in 1967. PS, it was Israel who invaded Arabs in 1967, not the other way around. Well, you can call it "pre-emptive strikes" if you want. But still it doesn't justify Israeli occupation of West Bank, a phenomenon driven by religious extremism instead of some strategic reasons.

U.N has also termed Israeli occupation of West Bank as illegal and imperialistic in nature. That is why the "settlements" are called "illegal settlements" by everyone. Again, Palestinians did not even invade Israel to begin with...

You, being an indian, should not justify imperialism..even if it soothers your feelings when seeing Muslims getting beaten up by another group in some part of the world.

Just because Israel provide india with some fancy weapons, it doesn't require you to justify their crimes.

They already returned Sinai peninsula to Egypt which is a massive chunk of land.

It was won back by Egypt through a mixture of successful Military action and smart diplomacy. Israelis didn't just "give it back as charity" as you are trying to put.

It was a win-win situation for Israel and Egypt...

You have your opinion and have a right to express it. But I disagree.

No, that wasn't an "opinion", that was a fact.

In case of Israel-Palestine, Israel is an imperialist power...a colonial hegemon that is taking Palestinians' rights away, and oppressing them. A fact.

Even Israelis know it...for fcuks sake!

Israeli argument (by Israelis I have met here) is that every nation did it. If Jews got Palestinian land after getting murdered by Nazis, well what can we do? We had to do something.

So, please don't try to justify which Israelis themselves accept.

It is never fun when an inhuman terrorist organization like AQ is fighting against anyone. Haven't their offshoots killed many of your countrymen?

No, I wrote this because I know Israel won't go easy to Al Qaeda...America still went easy on them..Israelis are "mad dogs" ...I wonder how they'll respond to a massive Al Qaeda attack, if that ever happens...

 

[kaykay]

well I believe Hazbollah can't challenge Israel.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

well I believe Hazbollah can't challenge Israel.

Actually, Hezbollah will not stand a chance against them. It is an asymmetric war, you know?

 

[Serpentine]

Actually, Hezbollah will not stand a chance against them. It is an asymmetric war, you know?

Well, it did last time, and now it's few times more powerful than 2006.
Hezbollah is not supposed to 'win' a war against Israel, they are supposed to inflict the most damage to Israel in case they attack Lebanon again.Their missiles are much more powerful and accurate today.

Believe me, Israel is not someone to postpone its attack on her enemies, unless she knows it will lose too much, even if she wins the war militarily.you know what I mean.

 

[Falcon29]

Actually, Hezbollah will not stand a chance against them. It is an asymmetric war, you know?

Yes it can, so can Hamas in Gaza. Israel couldn't prevent the over three hundred rockets and increasing by the day everyday fired in response to its offensive on Gaza. And this was a small portion of Hamas's military capabilities and it has more and better rockets it could have used also better anti aircraft weapons but it didn't use them. Everything has also become underground, any ground invasion will not succeed anymore and never will. Today, the Israelis even know the difficulties they will have from underground explosives which their locations are not know. Hamas is way more capable of surviving then it used to be and it's there is whole other city underground in the Gaza Strip. They won't take failure as an option anymore.

Now, Hezbollah can also be effective if it was a retaliatory war or an war in defense of Iran. Whoever tells you though that every single category of their capabilities exceed Hamas greatly it's not true. But, they can be more effective in certain categories and they have two great factors which is communication, intelligence and another their ability to be prepared. Of course their weapons exceed the weapons here but we are speaking of military tactics only.

If I was Iran and was fearing a Israeli attack on my nation, I would arm Hezbollah right now with mass quantities of weapons and more effective advanced technology as much as possible. Because, Hezbollah can serve a deterrent and Iran should understand they need to increase military funding as soon as possible. Especially, if a war broke out they should already have prepared methods with post war Syria to rearm Hezbollah effectively. Or it will go downhill.

Also consider that Israel reformed its training to mainly high intensity training after the 2006 July war so this means Hezbollah will face a new IDF and the IDF will also face a new Hezbollah because it can adapt to changes and its 'ally' Hamas has experienced two wars with the post 2006 IDF and they can study Israel's tactics and share between each other.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

As to damage infliction, yes, I agree. But, the Israelis destroyed nearly half of southern Lebanon.

We did make a big donation, construction of housing units to Shias and others. We gave a year school-package utilities to every Lebanese student, from pencils to laptops.

Well, it did last time, and now it's few times more powerful than 2006.
Hezbollah is not supposed to 'win' a war against Israel, they are supposed to inflict the most damage to Israel in case they attack Lebanon again.Their missiles are much more powerful and accurate today.

Believe me, Israel is not someone to postpone its attack on her enemies, unless she knows it will lose too much, even if she wins the war militarily.you know what I mean.

 

[T-123456]

Just a question,
Why the hell would Israel want to attack Lebanon?????

 

[Serpentine]

As to damage infliction, yes, I agree. But, the Israelis destroyed nearly half of southern Lebanon.

We did make a big donation, construction of housing units to Shias and others. We gave a year school-package utilities to every Lebanese student, from pencils to laptops.

Yes it did, and it will again if a war happens. It's one their tactics to target civilians to force their enemy stop fighting.
But I believe Hezbollah today is powerful enough to make Israel think twice before invading Lebanon. They may not be able to defeat Israel completely, but they are a good detterance, especially after the 2006 war.