Israeli War Objectives in Lebanon: Trump foreign Policy in the Middle East
Hezbollah recently released a video titled âOur Mountains, Our Treasures.â What war aims, propaganda does this psycho arms display seek to negotiate?
Hezbollahâs Tunnels and Weapons Video: Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group, recently released a video titled âOur Mountains, Our Treasures.â In this slickly produced video, they unveil an extensive tunnel network used for storing and launching missiles. What purpose does this achieve? Hezbollah seeks to influence the negotiations for a Cease Fire favorable to their terms.
Prior to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon Hezbollah declared they would stop firing missiles when Israel withdrew from Gaza. But seeing that Hezbollah attacked Israel on Oct 8th, before Israeli IDF entered Gaza, this Hezbollah demand rings hollow. Why did Hezbollah attack on Oct 8th? Did it make a strategic error?
On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups launched a coordinated armed incursion from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel. This attack marked the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 ArabâIsraeli War. Hamas together with UNRWA forces attacked Israeli border settlements near Gaza. Currently Hamas still holds 97 stolen hostages whom remain in Gaza. The Red Cross Double Cross has never visited these Israeli prisoners since the Oct 7th attack; which involved multiple elements: a barrage of over 4,300 rockets launched into Israel, vehicle-transported incursions, and powered paraglider infiltrations. This Hamas surprise attack compares to the Dec 7th Pearl Harbor 1941 surprise attack. Also the attack on September 11th 2001 World Trade Center.
Mount Dov, also known as Shebaa Farms, from the early 1950s until Israelâs occupation of the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War, Syria was the de facto ruling power. Documents from the 1920s and 1930s, during the French mandate, they indicate that inhabitants paid taxes to the French government, Lebanon a French mandate territory at that time. Maps issued by France placed the Mount Dov within Syrian territory.
Mount Dov lie along the border between Lebanon and the Golan Heights. During the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon (1920s and 1930s), the border between Lebanon and Syria wasnât officially demarcated. So, Mount Dov, its status, Hezbollah propaganda unilaterally declared this Golan territory as âoccupied territoryâ.
After the French mandate ended in 1946, Syria administered the land. Mount Dov appeared on mapsâboth Syrian and Lebanese military ones as Golan territory. This strongly supports the Israeli opinion that Mount Dov in the post 2000 dispute, constitutes as part of the territory of the Golan Heights which Syria lost in the 1967 War.
No evidence exists or supports that the abandoned farmlands ever Lebanese. League of Nations mandate (1923-1946), only thereafter did either Syria or Lebanon cease being a protectorate mandate! The UN âgraciouslyâ proposed maintaining the existing boundaries of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in Syria (which included Mount Dov) âwithout prejudiceâ to any future agreement between Syria and Lebanon. However based upon the one sided UN bias of repeated condemnations which pervert Chapter VI âsuggestionsâ to Chapter VII âKorean Ultimatumsâ, plus UNRWA war crimes, and UNIFIL criminal incompetence â Israel rejects the âobjectivity/neutralityâ of the UN-nations
After Israel withdrew from Lebanon in May 2000, Hezbollah propaganda claimed that the withdrawal notcomplete because Mount Dov mysteriously Lebaneseânot Syrian Golanâterritory. Only empty JâAccuse antisemitic Arab Nazi-like racism. Post the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah propaganda declared, as if they were God, the âShebaa Farmsâ as occupied territory.
The unprovoked Oct 8th Hezbollah attack upon Israel requires that Lebanon surrender any and all claims to Mount Dov Golan.