SO, ARE WE PREPARING FOR WAR?

A diplomat I was interviewing (off the record) last week told me it's gonna happen soon. The Israelis seem to have lost patience, or at least that's what they are hinting at. The ship scheme was obviously very well put together. The US spotted it ever since it left Iran, but only when it reached the vicinity of Israel was it arrested. It had to happen here and it had to be the IDF to seize it so that the pressure would be in the right place.

So here's the pretext: "We're sick of it we wanna end the whole issue with the Lebanese resistance," says the Israeli war propaganda.

Now they are waiting for the excuse, be it soldiers kidnapped or a plane struck by a missile.

I wrote an article about a possible strike in spring next year. Today I found a statement from Hezbollah in the Observer. Obviously, I have to rely on it since I am working for a media outlet perceived as being inclined to March 14, and the March 8 politicians ( Hezbollah and Amal) are always "busy" when we call them.

Hizbullah is rapidly rearming in preparation for a new conflict with Israel and is reinforcing fixed defense positions north of the Litani river, the British Observer newspaper reported.
"Having lost many of its bunkers in the south, Hizbullah is preparing a new strategy to defend villages there," it said.

"Sure, we are rearming, we have even said that we have far more rockets and missiles than we did in 2006," a Hizbullah commander told the Observer.

"We had to blow up or leave some of our bunkers and fighting positions, but we still have plenty of capabilities in the south. We expect the Israelis to come soon, if not this winter, then they will wait until spring, when the ground isn't too soft for their tanks," he added.