Israel launches strikes on southern Lebanon as IDF fighter jets break sound barrier above Beirut

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2. Did whatever he wanted in Gaza despite "warnings"

from other countries. Was warned against expanding the conflict regionally but then he did anyway. One can say the aerial campaign today is in response to the Hezbollah rockets of the last several months and by itself, in isolation, could be argued to only be a response to the rockets.

But Israeli action is not in isolation of the pager/walkie talkie explosions of the last couple of days. That was a planned event that required Israel to rig those devices even before 10/7. This didn't all happen as a "last minute" thing. It took long planning and installation of personnel to affect those devices. So it's clear that Israel planned this long ago. Perhaps several years of planning and execution.

So if Israel now tries to claim this is all just a response to the last several months of Hezbollah rockets it is easily shown to be a lie on it's face. This was planned beginning long before now. But it doesn't change anything really because Netanyahu will do anything he wants, give false assurances to his suppliers of weapons and if they try to restrict weapons sales he will immediately unleash the tactic of calling them anti-Semitic and trying to keep Israel from defending itself. So lie to your allies you demand weapons from and slander them if they don't give in to any and all behavior. It's the Netanyahu way of treating the ones he calls friends.