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Global News Interest => New Board => Topic started by: Rebbetzin on November 06, 2025, 09:54:02 AM
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Hi everyone,
We have seen in times past that the state of Israel is always having to play defensively with its surrounding enemies. It’s always been the cry of “they started it!” But is this the best way to deal with your enemies who are always poised to take you out? I think not. Though some world opinion would argue otherwise. Whatever.
As a Messianic Believer and what some may call a “Christian Zionist”, I don’t condone war as fought by the zealots of Messiah’s day all those centuries ago. The factions were in two camps back then, those who sought peace through their adherence to the teachings of Yeshua and those who saw those teachings as a way to stand up against the oppressive regime that governed their every move. We get it. We understand their beliefs and their faith that if they could help usher in “the Kingdom from YeHoVaH” all the better. Well, we know what the outcome of that endeavour brought about, only death and destruction for hundreds of years. Yeshua did say, “He who lives by the sword will die by the sword.” (Matthew 26:52) To take up arms as a Christian or Messianic Believer in Yeshua as Messiah is a road to death, though I know many good Christian people who do join the armies and believe that they do right in the sight of God.
However, others who heard that same message must have said, “Better to go down fighting than to live as slaves in an occupied Judea.” We get that, too. But as for me and my house, our swords are the prayers of the saints.
Meanwhile, the people of Israel cannot sit idly by and just pray and watch to see if their enemies will attack or not. They’ve done that till the cows come home and we all see the results, time and time again.
So, given the above, should Israel go on the defensive against their enemies regrouping and rearming themselves to their north? It’s probably a good idea. No turning of the cheek as understood wrongly by Christiandom as a whole, it’s time for Israel to continue to seek peace through that superior fire power with which the Lord has blessed them, whether with their own armaments or those given to them by other nations. Their entire future existence depends on no appeasement, no playing tiddlywinks or dilly-daddling waiting for the next rocket attacks from those who seek to obliterate them once and for all. The world will criticize as they usually do, find more reasons than one to scream that Israel are the new “nazis” and make up more lies at the UN, EU and elsewhere and bring trumped up charges against PM Netanyahu once again. Ho-hum, it’s becoming boring now if it wasn’t so dangerous to the Israelis.
Read on.
https://www.jns.org/hezbollah-is-busy-organizing-its-forces/?utm_campaign=Daily%20Syndicate%20Emails&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=121141648&utm_content=121141648&utm_source=hs_email
“By YAAKOV LAPPIN
“ Hezbollah is ‘busy organizing its forces’
“Former Israeli officials warn that the terror organization is regrouping and planning a political takeover of Lebanon.
“(Nov. 4, 2025 / JNS)
“Since Nov. 27, 2024, Israel and Hezbollah have officially been in a state of ceasefire, but not a day goes by without the Iranian-sponsored terror faction seeking to violate the arrangement by trying to rebuild its battered capabilities, triggering Israeli airstrikes.
“Simultaneously, Hezbollah is pursuing a political strategy to take over the Lebanese parliament, and the Lebanese state is largely helpless in stopping its activities, leaving Israel to do the heavy lifting, according to former senior Israeli security officials.
“Col. (ret.) Jacques Neriah, an analyst at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs and a former deputy head for assessment of Israeli Military Intelligence, told JNS that Hezbollah is receiving digital cash flowing from the Shi’ite diaspora and “Qassem’s money”—a reference to Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, who replaced Hassan Nasrallah—coming in from Iraq. According to some estimates, the total of these funds amounts to nearly 500 million dollars.
“I think that right now Hezbollah is busy organizing its forces, although it has more or less completed filling the missing ranks, appointing commanders who were killed, training [elite] Radwan forces anew, operating factories for assembling precision missiles and assembling UAVs, deploying observation posts in southern Lebanon, bringing in weapons from Syria and other places into Lebanon, through the illegal crossings of which there are close to 377, and of course the flow of digital funds,” Neriah said.
“Despite its losses in the war—according to Israeli assessments, it lost more than 80 percent of its pre-war arsenal by November 2024—Hezbollah still possesses a considerable arsenal, Neriah assessed. “In today’s data, they also say it has something like 30,000 projectiles left, which is not a small amount. Some of these are long-range projectiles and most are short-range rockets,” he said.
“ He warned that this military buildup is paired with a sophisticated political strategy to seize control of the Lebanese state. “The next mission is to take over the parliament. How? During the time of Michel Aoun, the previous [Lebanese] president, they passed a law that the Lebanese diaspora abroad will not vote for the 128 parliament members that exist on the various lists, but they will vote for six separate additional seats,” Neriah said.
“Why is that? Because most of the Lebanese who are abroad and vote are anti-Hezbollah. Meaning, if you let them vote for parliament, they [Hezbollah] will never be able to take over the parliament, and this is the next goal.”
He described Lebanon as a “failing state” and its military as a “failing army” that has no real power to implement reforms or confront Hezbollah. “It is a sectarian army, 60% of which is Shi’ite; these are all people who have family in south Lebanon, no one will raise a rifle or a finger against Shi’ite villages in southern Lebanon, so what kind of army is this?” Neriah stated.
Given this reality, he argued that the U.S. has resorted to using Israel as its proxy, he added, to pressure Beirut to take action against Hezbollah’s weapons. Ultimately, Neriah said, a large-scale Israeli air operation will be needed to further weaken Hezbollah and to enable the Lebanese government to break free of its grip. He noted that during Operation Northern Arrows by the Israeli Air Force on Sept. 23, 1,600 sorties flown by the IAF over several days were extremely effective against Hezbollah’s capabilities.
“Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan, who served as deputy chief of staff and head of the National Security Council, told JNS, “Hezbollah will do its utmost to return and recover, this is true militarily, from a terror perspective, and it is also true politically. The Lebanese government wants to weaken Hezbollah as much as possible, but the main problem for it is that it is, as usual, weak. Hezbollah will direct its build-up towards the south of Lebanon, both because it has a wide Shi’ite base there, and also because it’s far from Beirut.”
“Dayan outlined a multi-stage strategy for Israel in dealing with this threat. “One, always prepare operationally according to the enemy’s capabilities and not according to his intentions, because in assessing his intentions, history is full of mistakes in trying to understand, guess the intentions, or rather predict the enemy’s intentions. It is better to prepare according to its capabilities.”
“A second, non-negotiable component is maintaining a permanent buffer area, said Dayan.
“The international border in Lebanon today is in some places tens of meters from [northern Israeli] communities. This is true for Metula, it is true for Misgav Am, it is true for Shlomi, also for other places, and therefore, defense must be in a security zone. The ideal is what the Americans call a ‘death zone,’ as they did between South Korea and North Korea,” he said.
“Dayan argued that any significant violation by Hezbollah should be used by Israel to expand its current narrow security zone in southern Lebanon.
“Third, Dayan argued that Israel must shed its reluctance to strike first. Thwarting Hezbollah’s attempt to recover, he said, must also allow, under certain conditions agreed upon in Israel, include a pre-emptive counter-attack. “That is, there are places where you have no choice but to hit him before it hits you, and this is something Israel has refrained from doing for many years.”
“Dayan dismissed the Lebanese Army as a credible force, noting that it is infiltrated by Hezbollah loyalists and that its basic functionality is “nonexistent.”
“In many areas, he said, “Lebanon is state that has no street names, no house numbers, nothing state-like, no state education system, no social security, and what is more troubling on the practical side, is that the salary, for example, of a soldier in the Lebanese army is about one-eighth of the salary of a terrorist in Hezbollah.”
“He also characterized the U.S. role as one of economic, not military, pressure. “The Americans are doing a kind of peace. Their peace is economic, and utilitarian,” he said. When it comes to threatening military force in the region, the U.S. will always rely on Israel.”
“Therefore, he added, “this is a situation that will happen quite a lot, because we also do not intend to conquer Lebanon.”
“Ultimately, Dayan concluded, “We are saying, there will be no peace that does not pass through the liquidation of terror. If this is true in Gaza, it is true in Lebanon, and it is true in Syria.” “
It is true everywhere General Dayan, even in the halls of our governments worldwide, especially there is one to watch in the current political climate of New York City where “intifada” bleeds from the mouths of a certain mayor with his own agenda and that of those who support him.
Am Israel Chai!
Love and Shalom,
Rebbetzin Glenys xo