The Israelis tend to launch their wars of choice in the summer, in part because they know that European and American universities, the primary nodes of popular opposition, are out in the summer.
Matthew Kalman writes that Israel’s wide-ranging assault on Lebanon was shown to Washington think tanks and officials last year on power point by a senior Israeli army officer:
"More than a year ago, a senior Israeli army officer began giving PowerPoint presentations, on an off-the-record basis, to U.S. and other diplomats, journalists and think tanks, setting out the plan for the current operation in revealing detail."
That this war was pre-planned was obvious to me from the moment it began. The Israeli military proceeded methodically and systematically to destroy Lebanon's infrastructure, and clearly had been casing targets for some time. The vast majority of these targets were unrelated to Hezbollah.
[Meanwhile] the US Department of Defense, appearing to be a partner in the war effort, is committed to rapidly re-arming Israel and providing it precision laser-guided weaponry, and to giving it time to substantially degrade Hezbollah's missile capabilities.
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