Opinion  Ron Ben-Yishai
A new red line: IDF deterrence efforts reach Lebanon’s citizens
Ron Ben-Yishai
Published: 29.01.18, 14:10
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1. Up in smoke
Stanley Cohen   (01.29.18)
See Ya later Lebanon. Gather up your stones. You'll need yhem for a rebuild
2. There is the idf statement which is consistent in stating
Tehraniporou   (01.29.18)
the militarys position in the event of war and there is king nutsyahuuuuh huuh jumping around to use marketing ahead of the recommendations. The usual noise made by king nuttcracker is nothing new. He should directly consider to serve as a board member of a pr firm after his political life.
3. An existential threat to Israel is developing in Lebanon
naro ,   NYC   (01.29.18)
An existential threat to Israel is developing in Lebanon and Syria. All range of nuclear (neutron bombs) biological and conventional weapons will be required unless Lebanon removes Iranians from their territory. Iran is building massive rocket factories in Lebanon and storing all kind of weapons there.
There will be a need for preemptive strike that may cause millions of innocent Lebanese lives, as Iran has no interest in talking with Israel.
Lebanon must get control over its territory, hopefully with EU and American help.
4. Existential threats
Ben Smith   (01.29.18)
As America was still battling for survival in January of 1945, the U.S. initially targeted key Japanese war industry facilities with little success — much of the Japanese manufacturing process was carried out in small workshops and private homes.

Under pressure from Washington, tactics were changed to low-level incendiary raids against Japanese cities as the only way to destroy their production capabilities, with the aim to destroy the enemy's war industries. The rational was that civilians who took part in the war effort were in the legal sense subject be attacked.

The firebombing of Tokyo, March 9–10, 1945, was the single deadliest air raid in history; with a greater area of fire damage and loss of life than either of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

This is the unenvious dilemma that Israel faces regarding her existential threats.

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