Israel is dragging us into a major Middle Eastern war
Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes on Taybeh village
ISRAEL’S intensified bombing raids over Lebanon are pulling the entire region towards a war of unknown proportions.
Tel Aviv’s Western sponsors will try to portray Hezbollah as the aggressor, given its deputy leader Naim Qassem’s announcement of an “open-ended battle of reckoning” with Israel.
But the Lebanese militia’s escalating rocket fire follows Israel’s murderous exploding-pager stunt last week, and its subsequent serious bombing of Beirut.
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