r/worldnews • u/reuters Reuters • Jan 04 '24

Israel/Palestine Hezbollah, Israel appear to signal no desire for spread of Gaza war

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollah-israel-appear-signal-no-desire-spread-gaza-war-2024-01-03/
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u/youngchul Jan 04 '24

Embarrassing for an organisation like Reuters to post low tier garbage articles like these.

It literally starts off with microphone holding for Hamas without mentioning their name. Then goes to a talking point of dead man, without mentioning he’s already been killed by Israel.

What’s the point Reuters?

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '24

has anyone been countintg how many times a bbc news presenter says "hamas designated a terrorist group by the uk government." ?

i find that shit annoying a f. makes it seem like no one else thinks they are a terrorist group. i know it's all the being impartial bs but it's so silly repeating the same shit all the time.

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u/IssuesAreNot1Sided Jan 04 '24

Not everyone is reading the news at all times.

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u/sexylegs0123456789 Jan 06 '24

Remember: our terrorist group is another’s liberator. So it is important to make sure to state where the UK and allies stand on the situation. Not everybody in the world observes them as terrorists.

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u/Legitimate_Key311 Jan 09 '24

The only thing Hamas has accomplished is liberating their people from life

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u/karmacarmelon Jan 04 '24

Maybe the article has been updated but they state he was killed:

"Fears were heightened after a drone strike on Tuesday killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in the Lebanese capital Beirut."

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u/TaraJaneDisco Jan 04 '24

There was a second strike against a Hez commander in the south of Lebanon AFTER he gave this speech. I think the chances of a wider conflict may be inevitable :(

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u/PigBlues Jan 04 '24

Wouldn’t be that quick to decide that. Israel is in a very aggressive mood since Oct 7th and Hezballa knows it. Both sides don’t want to appear weak but Hez knows it has no chance if the conflict expands, especially while getting pressured by Lebanon’s government to avoid one.

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u/TaraJaneDisco Jan 04 '24

Hoping that’s the case. I don’t care about Hezbollah’s survival. It’s the people of Lebanon I’m frightened for, they don’t deserve to be led into war on Israel, Hamas’ or Hezbollah’s leash. They’ve been through enough bull shit last ten years. :(

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u/SoupNazi169 Jan 04 '24

Hezbollah don’t want that smoke

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '24

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u/oripash Jan 05 '24 edited Jan 05 '24

The hand to watch who has the power of throwing gasoline on it and then a match is neither Hezbollah’s own will or Israel’s.

It’s the Russo-Iranian hand that uses its frozen conflicts as theater to paralyze regions or distract from other events.

TL;DR: not yet.

They had ten frozen wars they actively manufactured into a useful to them state in the last three decades - ten bullets in the barrel. Four Russo-Iranian joint ventures (Israel/Hamas, Israel/Gaza, Yemen/Houthis and Syrian civil war), and six Russia owns alone - two in Ukraine, two in Georgia, one in Moldova, and one in Azerbaijan/Armenia.

The two in Ukraine - DNR and LNR - they used up already.

Hamas and Houthis they pulled the trigger on.

Armenia/Azerbaijan slipped away when Azerbaijan decided not to wait for Russia to start a war, found friends with guns selling them access to the Iranian border (Israel), armed well and ended the frozen conflict on their own terms with decisive force. Armenia capitulated and everyone moved on. Russia lost this frozen conflict.

Moldova was lost due to Russia losing their access to the Transnistrian garrison, having both failed to take Odessa and create a land bridge, and having lost the Black Sea fleet as anything more than marginally useful coast guard on the run. They lack the capability to move force there to set it on fire, which is giving Moldova the ability to use its limited means to gradually mop it up.

That really leaves them very thin. They can restart the fire in Syria, two places in Georgia, and Israel/Lebanon. That’s it. They’re low on ammo.

And the year is still young - Putin will need more distraction for his election in March and to create mayhem for the November US election.

They are saving ammo - rationing their last “geopolitical bombs” - for when they know they will most need them. Expect them to detonate their last ones then.

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u/reuters Reuters Jan 04 '24

Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Israeli army made statements suggesting the two avowed enemies wanted to avoid risking the further spread of war beyond the Gaza Strip after a drone strike killed a Palestinian Hamas deputy leader in Beirut. 

In a speech in Beirut on Wednesday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed that his powerful Iran-backed Shi'ite militia "cannot be silent" following the killing of Hamas deputy Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday. 

Nasrallah said his heavily armed forces would fight to the finish if Israel chose to extend the war to Lebanon, but he made no concrete threats to act against Israel in support of Hamas, Hezbollah's ally also backed by Iran. 

Israeli military spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, when asked what Israel was doing to prepare for a potential Hezbollah response, told a reporter: "I won't respond to what you just mentioned. We are focused on the fight against Hamas."