What Would an Israel-Hezbollah War Look Like?
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If you're gonna make them without wearing a jacket, I'm gonna watch them without wearing pants.
That is all.
2nd
Pics of it didn’t happen 😂
what are these "pants" things? 😁
Thanks for your incredibly relevant comments with respect to the video.
@@Shoutinthewindstop it. get some help.
is it me or is the audio for this episode is absurdly low
His jacket amplified the sound
It is low.
It's barely drowning out my neighbours awful music.
It’s just you
@@Sparta1993 nah, it was an issue in the last video too
The background music is like you left your car door open 😅
No idea y ppl do that it’s distracting and difficult to follow the commentator at times. TURN THE SH!T OFF
@@billynomates9661I agree, even the 20:00 music supplied by the iron dome hype men is a bit much 😅
I'm glad I wasn't the only one to notice that. 😅
@@BrodysBettas I won’t lie I couldn’t finish it too distracting
made me stop watching this video and so many other by him....wasting money on distracting shit music but can´t put up time stamps or sub titles. really makes you realise he´s not as smart as the topics written for him might suggest, but merely a mediocre newsreader
Israel can’t invade and hold Lebanon. It just honestly doesn’t have a large enough man power to fight in by inch village by village mountainous terrain against 100k dug in, well armed, battle hardened troops fighting on their home turf and maintain the occupation of West Bank and Gaza.
Israel really can’t afford to lose 20% of their young men considering their low birth rate on a mission that might not even work.
Smart man. Good analysis
Between Israel & Ukraine...are there any 155mm Artillery shell left?
hey! i'm out of shells. yeah, me too. ok, muskets at dawn?
Isn't Israel mainly using missiles and bombs rather then artillery?
Thankfully the total amount of shells America alone has supplied to Ukraine and Israel totals less than 10% of their reserve with more made every day and a new heavy production has been made in the U.S and the U.K has also stepped up shell production, I don't know about France and Germany's production but the long and short of it is, don't worry. There is still plenty more to dish out of needed, and that production is with the western nations in a peace-time economy. If and when it kicks off proper, war time production will ramp up massively.
Funnily enough, a lot of those worrying about the draft will be surprised to find themselves shoved into production and supply roles with very few seeing even distant smoke of combat.
Tooth to tail: people don't understand how many people are in the rear with the gear.
@@arthas640Short answer: yes. Regardless of what casualty numbers would have you think, Israel’s doctrine of warfare in urban settings points to use of more precise munitions such as missiles and smart bombs. UGBs and artillery are used when called upon by ground forces for less precise strikes on confirmed enemy combatant locations or fixed strategic positions that are confirmed empty but could later be utilized by enemies if left available. Otherwise they use more precise means to try to minimize civilian casualties and avoid potential friendly fire. How successful they are in that effort is subject to context, sources of information, chosen comparative conflicts, and debate.
It seems like a significant omission to not talk about the fact this exact match has happened before.
And who didn't meet their military objectives while only on ONE FRONT against the same for who wasn't NEARLY as well equipped or battle hardened as they are now?
I'm halfway through and was wondering if he would ever mention it. I know he shills for the west and isreal, but damn.
"None state actor" as they hold up pictures of Iran's leader.
That's an example of them not being a state actor.
@@noahstevens3060 They are owned and financed by Iran. Would not exist without Iran. They are acting on behalf of Iran. They are proxy state actors.
State leader or religioys leader?
@@4362mont In Iran they're one and the same (Ayatollah)
@@4362mont In Iran it is very much both. However, I do not recognize their version of God. So for me, it is just another state with another ideology that is in opposition to the West.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
Out of the frying pan and into the raging napalm fire.. I swear this region has a curse on it and always will. Sad given its rich history.
Don't forget the white phosphorus. Out of the frying pan into the napalm and white phosphorus.
OUT OF FRYING PAN INTO THE HELL
@@joel6513Western interference has had a terrible impact on the region.
@@ebonaparte3853 the troubles of the region began as civilization began right there. Blaming the West only makes sense regarding a few important borders but the underlying conflicts were already there. The Kurds, anybody? Should I go on?
Simon in a T-shirt? 😮😮. It's fine... just unusual...I fear war is inevitable
A true sign of the times
Wait til you see him in a "wife beater" tank top as it heats up.
And I fear certain types of weather are inevitable doesn't mean that myself and the forecasters are right
@@eddenoy321dear God knows nobody needs to see that much untanned British skin. Think of Simon if nothing else. can you imagine the expense to him adjusting the lighting levels in the studio to accommodate that?
Such an unkept presentation
When the maps are re-written we will see ‘here be monsters’ and ‘ here was the middle east.’
Issam Abdallah was killed while reporting on cross-border shelling near the Lebanese village of Alma al-Chaab so was an active war zone. This city was in the demilitarized zone in Lebanon. It's important to note these details.
Why is that important?
War is a rich man's terrorism. Terrorism is a poor man's war.
A cowards war
@@Meteyard97 Most wars are lead by cowards, sending the youth to fight for their corporate interests. Good example General Douglas Haig from WW1.
@matthewamann9328 2 time medal of Honour recipient Dan Daley has a qoute you might want to check out called "War is a racket."
@@matthewamann9328 that’s ridiculous.
@@straitnickelbot or just criminally stupid?
Horrible conclusion, the americans couldnt handle afghanistan even after bombing it for 20 years how is the isral supposed to achieve any form of victory on foreign territory
Israel is not from the US.
They will give more than they get and they don't care about 'freeing' the
country and rebuilding it.
If the US was willing to be mean in Afghanistan they would have wiped out the Taliban (yes, yes the US wasn't always an angel in Afghanistan but they genuinely tried to limit collateral damage and build up the population to defend themselves).
You can bet if some town is known to have insurgents... Israel won't let it be a town for long - they won't simply target the insurgents when they're travelling or take out the specific building with the leader.
The video's conclusion makes no sense.. Simon claims Hezbollah will clearly start the war, then proceeds to explain it is because they have the capability to overwhelm the IDF's missile defense! Or is he suggesting Israel can stop them from firing missiles? They didn't manage it in 2006, and are unlikely to succeed before Hezbollah retaliates.
After spending the whole video underlining how a war in Lebanon would be much harder than what was faced in Gaza. The final claim is that Israel will clearly achieve in Lebanon what they failed to achieve in Gaza!
They lack basic knowledge and information in these videos it’s why I stopped watching them because they just don’t know shit all about warfare like most media because learning about wars warfare and how it works and happens isn’t a hobby/obsession for them like it is for me it took a little over 3 minutes for them to leave out important information for important context to the situation because they most likely don’t know
Because we were delusional and wanted to win “hearts and minds”, Bibi is more of a “please f**ck off, now and forever” kind of chap. Which is why Israel would win, where. We. Absolutely. Lost.
The audio issues are incredible
i didnt have any issues, personally
yeah, I thought my earbuds were glitching out
the bass is gone
Man yall find anything these days
Music is a little loud but Simon comes through clear for me. Maybe it is an issue of you are using headphones but standard speaker appears to be reasonable.
We don’t need to speculate it’s happening before our eyes.
@@arthas640 He means, the Israel-Hezbollah war has already started, just no ones is saying it yet..
@@joel6513 that makes sense. I see so many people that can't tell the difference between Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis
@@joel6513dude it never stopped since decades. You guys really have no clue other than youtube,don’t you….you must think all this started on the “7th of october” 😂
@@joel6513that’s not war yet, wait just for a few more weeks and you’ll see “pray for Beirut” and “free Lebanon”, then it’s war.
Why is the audio in this video way quieter than the others I could barely hear it without turning my volume up
Agreed, I had to turn my volume as high as possible just to hear anything.
OMG….IS YOUR TENDER FINGER OK
They are worried about upsetting Isntreal if they are too loud.
@@chemiKalzI was going to say they need to whisper about these things 😂
Some weird compression stuff going on too.
Thank you Simon and the Warographics team for this really excellent and balanced look at the situation. I live in northern Israel and this is such a terrifying situation. It’s hard to have any hope. The leadership of Hezbollah are insane and willing to pay any price to destroy as many Israelis as possible, and meanwhile our PM is a criminal motivated only by his own self-preservation, an incompetent and dangerous politician, and rapidly bringing Israel and the whole region to destruction. I wish there was a way out. The Israeli political opposition has been trying to get Netanyahu out of power for years before 7.10, but the situation is only getting worse.
But as grim as it is, you really did an excellent job laying out the situation, and even as an Israeli there was a lot in here that I didn’t know previously. This is the kind of informative, in depth journalism we need but is unfortunately very rare right now. I only wish people with the power to stop the conflict were willing to see the truth that’s been laid out so clearly here.
Wishing you and the region a better future.
Nice to hear from the people stuck in the crossfire that are the ones that are truly in the position to lose everything. Those voices don't get heard enough... I'm so sorry you're all having to suffer through the trauma that must bring. All sides... all the victims... all the ones desperate to just survive... People do things they never thought they were capable of in times of pain and desperation... we all love God, and we all are told by God to love and forgive and to nit cause harm by acting on a way that is immoral or from sin. Why isn't that enough to stop this madness. The very thing everyone is fighting in the name of is who's commandments are being broken disobeyed. Love. Turn away from sin and love each other. God is good. War and hate are the devils work. Not God's. This is the opposite of what we are supposed to be doing. And I'm sure God's not too happy that all this madness is being done supposedly in his name...
@@joythoughtYes. Get rid of I slam.
@PawelSorinsky ....not Israel nor America or the whole western degenerate world can end Islam
You may kill us, laugh at our suffering
Justify killing our children
You may deceive many people to leave Islam
But Islam will come out victorious no matter what
when He comes, no nukes can stop him from ending this degeneracy, crulity, and all the nonsense that humanity committed and fell into, and that huu
@@joythoughtnever will…until Israeli’s get in their heads they will never know peace with the arab world. In Israel it should be mandatory for every Jew to read the hadiths and the Quran to understand Islam. Once they actually know what they’re dealing with only then will they understand peace will never exist with the muslim world.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:35 The Solemn Staredown
11:00 The Combatants, the Alliances
23:53 What Would a War Look Like?
36:45 How Likely is War?
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Simon- phew,that was a long one..time to take a break
His other channels--NOPE
We need these episodes too. If only Simon and the channel could cover more news for us
I do not know what happened to your sound editing on this one, but it is barely audible.
yea its absolutely terrible
Fine for me..
I usually have to listen really hard to him to understand. I’m going to have use headphones for this one. I thought it was me. I do enjoy this channel. Not shitting on it. As I get older , I struggle with accents . 😂
@@Sabbreather Aight calm down, it could be done better but "absolutely terrible" is overdramatic.
I’m listening to it on my surround sound and the audio mix is off
Love the content, but I have to agree with a lot of the comments here. The music choice was distracting and the audio mixing resulted in some really harsh sounds. Please look into fixing them for future videos!
From my experience, this cpuld very well be reuploaded.
If not, their long overhead on videos might cause a few weeks delay, but they generally react to feedback or find a compromise between the two standpoints
The audio was high pitch sounds like an 80s phone call, get better audio please!
High pitch sounds are not pleasant
I don't agree fully. Buuuut I do agree the music needs reconsideration. Even some old school medal of honor or big red one war tracks. Or hell even some classical, or something.
Or battlefield
This video is a far over reaction. All Israel wants to do in the north is to push Hezbollah back a few tens of miles from it's border to make sure a 7.10 in the north can't happen. It was never about an existential conflict with Hezbollah like it is with hamas. Both are in completely different situations.
You disregard the fact that hezbollah does not have 100k launch systems for those missiles.
Good point
They have the capability to fire 5 000 missiles a day with pin point accuracy for a year. That is according to Scott Ritter.
@@trojanhman8136 i don't take a convict and national traitor like ritter as a credible source. 5k a day is definately possible (probably more in the beginning) until air power neutralizes more and more launch systems. I also doubt their capability to do so for a year with pinpoint accuracy knowing the vast majority of their stockpile are dumb short range munitions. Meaning israeli ISR would be able to spot a lot of it.
@@trojanhman8136 according to that clown Israel would start the war using a neutron bomb. He doesn't even believe the stuff coming out of his mouth.
@@saus9870 israel with their 19/20 years soldiers has no chance They are novices and relying a lot on Air power.On the ground IDF are useless.
Excellent content, terrible background music. As always
Man, I am depressed. Very, very, very depressed.
Depressed about the civilian deaths but the silver lining is this continues the demise of the Zionist project
Very good video, but it's new enough that a reupload probably won't hurt the views too much.
And tuning down high frequencies would certainly not hurt the watchtime
edit, a few other people also pointed out the music.
I agree, keep it to the other channels.
Or better, limit it to chapter transitions even there
One correction: Israel’s willingness to defend itself with overwhelming force, regardless of the cost, is not a feature of “current Israeli leadership”. It’s a core feature of the Israeli people and the mission of the nation, and has been official military doctrine for decades. I’m no fan of Bibi but ANY potential Israeli government will have the same attitude towards defense of the nation.
500,000 Settlers left , after Oct 7th .
Israeli’s are clever , they’ve hung-onto their other passports.
You are correct
Correct these
Israel has a right to exist. Judea forever.
@@Curious-Mr.-Lee 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A terrorist is one who kills civilians without any reason, and this is what happened in Gaza, 40,000 civilians killed, and also in Lebanon, a thousand civilians killed, while we see a party and the resistance in Gaza and Lebanon did not kill any civilians, so who is the real terrorism?
False. Nobody kills people without any reason. What makes one "a terrorist" is waging war while identifying as civilian. Put a uniform while fighting - and you're a soldier. No uniform - you're terrorist.
Based on the experiences of 2006, Hezbollah will initiate contact with the IDF from Northern Israel to force Israel to engage on territory they occupy instead of targeting Southern Lebanon; changing the IDF response and tactics.
That's unlikely. In 2006 Hezbollah couldn't really attack Israel head on since it was weaker than Hamas was in 2023.
Based on the current war in which Hezbollah tried to infiltrate Israeli territory and failed each time, and on the fact that Israel destroyed Hezb tunnels that go into Israel in 2018, it's much more likely Hezbollah will draw Israeli forces into southern Lebanon rather than going on the offensive. They have tunnels inside southern Lebanon, they don't really have any hiding spots inside evacuated northern Israel
My guess is they will lose and you will cry again... poor kids
Maybe you should go help them out. Lmao
god speed to Hezbollah, I hope they set Israel back to the bronze age
@@WhiteWidowXX lol crybaby terrorists are the most scary!
@@WhiteWidowXX You made zero point. They were stating their observations and you decided to infer something baseless from it.
Education sure is a privilege.
Of course Simon would pronounce it "Hezbowl-laa
“Small scale” when referring to the Israeli military’s responses is never the right word.
It's because he's a propagandist so he has to choose the right phrasing
@@shawndrumm3090 He's a propogandist? 🤣Give me the name of someone who provides better information with no political bias then.
@@ruaidhrineville2100 he's very biased what the hell are you talking about? He only regurgitates whatever comes from mainstream media or the establishment or whatever you wanna call it, he has no independent thinking free mind
@@shawndrumm3090 my question was who provides better info with no political bias?
Compared to what a war in Lebanon will look like? The Gaza campaign will be considered a skirmish.
One might argue that the US is Hezbollah's main international backer since the US effectively enables Iran to back Hezbollah.
Simon I am seriously impressed by the quality and impartialness of this channel. And that´s just 1 of your many many channels :D
😮 Simon is impartial? I guess you haven’t watched any of his videos on Ukraine
While I do enjoy Simon’s content as a general independent-news source of opinion, you would be a fool to think Simon is impartial or unbiased.
While he does a great job at turning down the bias knob especially when discussing details (hence why I enjoy his content), there’s still underlying impartiality that steers the overall trajectory of his analyses from premise to conclusion.
An example of this in this video can be heard right at the start at 0:32, when he quickly states matter-of-factly without a pause: “The militant _terror_ organization, Hezbollah…”
I typically do my best to ignore hottakes like this when I’m taking in his content, but to go into discussion about why I believe a statement like that casts a dull shadow of bias: Hezbollah is denoted a terror organization by primarily Western governments and Israel, and he’s repeating that sentiment without taking a lot of time to analyze what it means exactly to be labeled a terror organization and if the label is truthful. Are they a terror organization because they carry out terrorist attacks? Well, you’d be hard pressed to find any terror attack that Hezbollah carried out. Primarily, their involvement is summarized in warfare with Israel. These are not terror attacks so much as they are just military-on-military war and border skirmishes. They’ve certainly never done anything of the stereotypical terror sort you’d imagine when you think of ISIS or Al Qaeda where they have a theological agenda to spread and attempt to spread it by means of operating far outside of their border and/or targeting unsuspecting civilian populations.
Are they a terror organization because they target civilians in surprise attacks? While you can maybe argue that point for a group like Hamas (which is a questionable argument because it doesn’t take into account the conditions Israel as the illegal occupying government set on Gaza, but that’s a different topic), Hezbollah has never in its history targeted Israeli civilians EXCEPT as a quid-pro-quo response to Israel targeting Lebanese civilians - which is a modus operandi of Israel to pressure its enemies to cease. Even then, they often targeted civilian areas that were mostly vacant with civilian causalities that can be counted on one hand - the same cannot be said about Israel which targeted populated villages knowing they are populated, but again that’s their modus operandi.
Are they a terror group because they want to spread theological rule? Again, you’d be hard pressed to find anything of the sort in Hezbollah’s history. While they do carry an Islamic banner, they haven’t really tried to spread Islamic rule - not even within their own country Lebanon, in which they go into elections just as any other political party.
Are they a terror organization because they have an Islamic flag? Well, if having a theological flag is enough to designate you a terror organization, then Israel should be designated one too, but it is not.
Are they a terror organization because they are a militarized non-state group? Well, the Wagner group is a militarized non-state group. They’re largely not viewed as a terror organization.
Or are they a terror organization because they disagree frequently with Israel? Bingo. So then the question is: are they really a terror group? Or are they only designated a terror group because it makes politics convenient?
Impartial? He called the Palestinian self defense (according to international law) "terrorism"
He literally is a mouthpiece for western imperialism. Calling hamas a terrorist group and completely ignoring the fact they're resisting occupation tells you everything about his views.
@j.artiste8596 there was peace.. until hamas took over the Palestinian government after a violent conflict mainly in the west bank in 2007. Hamas never wanted peace with Israel
Excellent commentary as usual Simon.
I fear war between IDF and Hezbollah is inevitable. I'm afraid, at this stage, barring some miracle, it is a matter of when, not if
I'm praying for the innocent's.
Your assessment of this international crisis has got to be the most accurate video I have heard as of yet. You must have worked for an intelligence agency at one time or another. You got this on point
@20:46
I love how he added “inside the country”
Because outside the country, oh boy!
Outside the country don't matter.
@@Sam_Guevenne It kinda does if you like having allies.
how do you have so many channels and still can't figure out audio
The sad part is the populous is being used …. They intentionally situate their assets in areas that will impact innocents. Because they can’t win / won’t win against a traditional conflict. It’s absolute cowardice.
Regardless, it's a viable strategy, and there is no morals in war
Yes, I$real has been doing this for decades, the place the military outpost among civilian communities
@@genzigzagwrong. That’s Lebanon. Like in 2020, when that giant explosion happened in the middle of Beirut.
@@acarnivorouscat4549its not true, its a popular blood libel invented by jewish supremacists. Otherwise there would be far more evidence for it, which there isnt.
@@genzigzag cope harder muslim
as I read elsewhere, a monopoly on violence is one of the key features that define a Nation's government, and in Lebanon the Monopoly on violence is not in the hands of the Lebanese government, at best, its a duopoly. at worst, its Hezbollah that has the monopoly.
What about a history of the Palestinians in Jordan. The result of letting the Palestinians into Lebanon, and the danger of letting them in anywhere else?
Yup. Everywhere the so-called Palestinians went - chaos and violence ensued. There is a reason why the leaders of Egypt and Jordan stated very clearly that they will not allow one Palestinian into their countries - and Egypt has a massive wall surrounding the Gaza border. Palestinians = AOC (Agents of Chaos) - as Douglas Murray calls Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
thank you for keeping us in the loop Simon! your team’s content is unparalleled
"unparalleled" I don't think so, where exactly do you think they're getting their information?
@@anthonymullen6300 your mom
Except his conclusions are wrong.
@@thecrippledone3325OR your mom... She talks in her sleep.
@@thecrippledone3325 dumb response
Audio mixing could use some work, also some wacky musical choices.
Makes war fun!
What separates Israel from all combatans is their air force. As long as the air force remains dominant then Israel will survive as long as the US can remain a dedicated ally.
Just one correction - there was no up and down in the ladder, as you call it. Since 2006 there were one or two times alone of clashes with hezbulla. The others were with hamas in Lebanon
Great content, as always. Your sound level is still far too low, though. Better mic or editing needed
1:35 - Chapter 1 - The solemn staredown
11:00 - Chapter 2 - The combatants, the alliances
23:55 - Chapter 3 - What would a war look like ?
36:45 - Chapter 4 - How likely is war ?
thanks for your patience
I saw some article comparing the situation here as the time before USA dropped the nukes on Japan, by his analysis more people will die in a "normal" war between Israel and Hezbollah rather than Israel dropping a nuke or two on Lebanon, If Israel go that way with leaflets over the entire area of impact, it could really be the quickest way to end this war
You're delusional. Why would Israel create radioactive wasteland at its own territory?
Excellent analysis. Whistler's ability to get his words out without fluffing is extraordinary. Proficiaat...
If Israel's air defenses are so great then how come it took the combined efforts of Israel US UK Jordan and others to stop that one Iranian attack?
Any air defense however good is not gonna be able to stop any number of missiles, if it’s overly saturated it will be overwhelmed.
Also the countries that helped it wanted to send a message to Iran, who is on the other side of this if a full blown out war starts.
@@omryr Plus, Iran is one of the most powerful players in the Middle East. Israel has about 10 times less people.
@@omryrLol
@@user-vp2lz4qu5vhow is that funny?
Thanks for the video…..even on laundry day
A coordinated attack by Hezbollah and Iran would be devastating. Israel’s response to Hezbollah would be equally devastating.
However, Israel’s response to Iran would need to be incapacitating. Israel’s subsequent response to Iran would most likely be nuclear in nature.
I doubt it would be nuclear.
The US is with Israel until the end, short of Israel crossing a couple red lines - nuclear first strike certainly being one of them.
Without the US Israel would be in serious trouble.
Sometimes I wonder what it would take to create peace in the Middle-East but then I realize that I don't want to know. All that constant bloodshed and things barely if ever change.
Easy and historically accurate awnser ?
The Ottoman Empire 😅
SHHH dont let the British Empire hear you teaching accurate history. They will push NATO to label you a "terrorist"
Asking here as I assume people who watch these videos mostly keep up on news of a similar nature. Where do you guys get your news from? I use ground news mostly, but looking for any other gems I don't know about who post similar articles from various sources in one place.
ground news is a rightwing psyop. they're really biased in their word choices. Although Reuters did also report on the fabrications of what happened on oct 7th, they at least ended up admitting it. generally you can't rely on one source anymore. this isn''t the 1960's where we have pillars of journalism anymore. journalism is an active combat zone. take information from both al jazeera and compare with the outlet of your choice
Gray zone
Al manar, Al mayadeen, haaretz, Jerusalem Post, EI, Breaking Points, press TV, CNN, the gamut. Gonna see what all sides have to say to find the truth in the middle.
Israel's war with Hezbollah is simply unwinnable; just like the US war against the Taliban. The nature of these organisations and the geography they operate in (Well explained in the video), simply make them unbeatable when facing a conventional army, regardless how strong is that army. Israel is far better fortifying its northen border, and keep striking from the air when required. Unless and until Assad is removed in Syria and a stronger coalition is built in Lebanon against Hezbollah, there's no way Israel can "destroy" Hezbollah in a war. They are still fighting in Gaza after 10 months.
That’s because they are in plain clothes or hiding in tunnels. I don’t think hezbollah has the same options as hamas. As well this would be a fight between soldiers I don’t think hezbollah would be hiding behind civilians.
@@SeverusAlexanderAugustus found the Hezbollah propaganda account
Unfortunetly you are right , Same with Hamas.
guerilla organizations can be weakned but destroying them is difficult to impossible.
They will never surrender like a large army , and fight to the last man, and in the case of Hamas and Hezbollah , both see death as a devine cause, that should be embraced not feared, where's israel , morns on every Civilans or soldier lost , we value life highly.
As much As I'd love to see those 2 groups vaporized , it's unlikly.
Idk about that if Israel gets involved with Hezbollah they will definitely be less conventional then they have been with Hamas they will very likely use bunker bombers and things like that in Lebanon and abuse the shit out of middle east air superiority
@@TylerDavis-bm8gi hezbollah was literally hiding behind civilians in 2006 even their current bases are all in civilian villages
The last couple of days this has kicked off again
as am saw your comment i could hear missile, so yes.
Paramilitary group with tanks is wild to think about
Hezbollah fighters are Lebanese citizens, not foreign fighters bro
Yes and no many of them are Palestinians that fled to Lebanon that aren't full citizens
Almost all of hezb. is Lebanese, with a few exceptions. Like they do have separate units which are dedicated to fellow sunnis, Palestinians and Christians.@@simoncohen9323
Except the Iran commanders and all the foreign troops that joined Hezbollah in Syria.
@@badluck5647Not like there aren’t any British, French and US military officials working with Israel right?
No there are waves of Syrian and Iraqi militants
This is unwatchable the sound is too annoying💔
You’ve missed the squeeze on the Christians in the Lebanon being a possible added complication. In the 1975 to 1985 civil war the Christians held their ground against Fateh/PLO and the Muslims in west Beirut
And slaughtered countless civilians in refuge camps supported by Israel and US weapons. If you're gonna tell the story don't omit half of it.
@@hasanmatthew5204 Did you live in Beirut during the civil war? If not stick to biased opinions aired on the internet. Yes there were Palestinians murdered in refugee camps but you obviously haven’t a clue about what the Palestinians did prior to the attacks and you haven’t a clue about what these camps held! Some of us were there and fought on behalf of the besieged Christians and it was war.
Every time Simon says Lebanon. I think he’s about to go in a tangent. About how one can hide there from extradition.
how many channels does this man have?? I see his face all over the place lol
72 channels and counting last time I checked. No, 73 channels, he just started another one as I was writing.😂😂😂
467
Pretty soon he’ll own TH-cam.
As with your last video i struggled to get even partially through this because of the audio issues. For me it's just been this video and the one previous. Love this channel when i am able to watch/listen to the content of the videos.
What audio issues? I listened on headphones and didn't hear anything out of the ordinary.
Something's wrong with ur device not theirs
Turn on or off stable volume on your TH-cam setting. It can also be accessible on video settings too. Just open a video and click on the setting of the video and u will find it.
I struggle to get through the comment section because of people whining about nonexistent audio issues.
Simon had been good with his supplements and gym clearly looking like he’s put a bit of good size on 👏🏼kudos
Lol, you jokester you. He looks as thin and shapely as a 10-year-old boy.
The only hope is between 2 none compromising parties.
Only clear heads 😮😮
What kind of compromise? Do you know what Hezbollah really wants? Why they attack?
audio is giving me a headache its really harash
Its you not the audio bud.
Audio working well for me. Sound quality is good.
The fact you won't call Israel indiscriminate bombing of children "horrific" stopped me in my track watching this video
I see you get your news from Hamas.
@Oxinder lol what utter nonsense. We see the videos on online.
@@muhammedharun4606 oh I see you also get your news from Hamas.
It’s worse; they are eating them. I’ve seen videos, they are using zombies indiscriminately.
@@OxinderWe see you’ve swallowed the hasbara hook, line and sinker.
Seek help or your hate will eat you alive.
No idea what people are complaining about audio was fine
yep
onee thing left out in this video is the fact that hezbollah may have 130k missile etc. but they dont have nearly enough platforms to launch them from.
Wonder if the Israeli population would support such a war for long, especially if the IDF launched the first strike as they have been recently threatening to do so. Even the Gaza War has drawn large anti-war and even larger anti-Bibi protest from a fair percentage of the Israeli population, I doubt many of them would be very happy with an extend war front.
There's no anti-war protest in Israel against the war in Gaza and even if there is, it's negligible, and rightly so.
This guy make some great information driven videos, one of my new favorite channels
People in the comments trying to get the editor fired.
you mean the producer, and the audio engieneer.
2Kgs.14.26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. (KJV)
In view of the recent US presidential debate I find it strange that you tell us that President Biden is running US foreign policy. I find it difficult to believe that either Israel or Hizballah would listen to him anymore anyway.
Lol if you think the rest of the world isn't laughing at Trump just as hard your delusional. Australian people are calling for our Government to not back yours anymore. Basket case, Trump's a criminal and Biden is decrepit
Anymore? I watched his full campaign the first time (technically the third time), I knew what was coming right then. You had countries who are allies not exactly known for cutting edge comedy making fun of him is a skit that was broadcast around the world, he's falling up stairs and can't count to 3, literally.
He represents the US government and military so yes leaders will listen even if he is reading off a teleprompter. Trump or any president isn't powerful but the US economy, government and military is.
@@joythought I see . I disagree. Syria's Baser al Asaad didn't listen when Obama told him it was time to go. .. .
My point is that the President should listen to and represent the voce of the American people, not some faceless committee unelected and answerable to no one.
@@patclark2186 yeh, but he's the elected official.
Who he listens to is irrelevant because he's the one making the decision.
With Gaza as a quagmire Hezbollah in Lebanon sounds like an even worse mess.
Hezbollah surrenders in one week
Islam has turned the middle east into a cesspool of violence and radicalism. One of the worst things to happen to humanity was a tribal leader dreaming up a system to combine and control other tribes.
Tell me when you get a country.
Ill come by and scoop that up real quick.
It would be a very different kind of war, not a counter insurgency, but more of a direct military to military conflict.
@@Nathan-vt1jz Those tunnels though. If their tunnel network is much more vast and intricate, IDF will have way more deaths. They have 600+ just from Gaza.
Without a suit conversations require a slow paced - no subtitle needed Simon😭
As usual, Simon, you Brits overcomplicate everything.
Here's the KISS version of what Netanyahu has to do ... wait until Jan 20, 2025, when Dementia Joe is out and Trump is back in. Then Netanyahu gets to ROCK 'N ROLL!!!
You need to do some work on the consistency of your Audio Level some videos on some channels are quite easy to hear and some or not to the point I quit watching take the difference between this Channel and brain Blaze over the last 9 months by way of example
What is wrong with your audio quality in recent days? You are too professional to be on this audio levels please reaupload with better audio i can barely listen to what you are sayin
Take a sip of beer every time Simon says Hezbollah
Thanks for giving a neutral opinion / recap weekly ! Love yall
Not a cake walk and the untied state will fork the Bill
I'm not interested. If they can't get along with their neighbors then they probably shouldn't be there.
@@AdamtheRed- dude its like a thousand year war...no one's going anywhere.
@@wingerding biden was born before the formation of israel. It's a very new war.
@@wingerding 80 years is a little short of a thousand, huh? Maths are hard for yall.
@@wingerdingnice try rewriting history
The way the background music just hard drops and take 15 seconds to restart is... Jarring
Blinded by victory. Both sides seem confident that they will win and that any costs required to obtain that victory are worthwhile. It is difficult to see peace having a chance in these scenarios. Anyone who has watched William Spaniel's TH-cam videos on Ukraine's conflict knows about lines on maps. In short, each side's willingness to fight can be illustrated by a line on a map that represents their expected outcome in a conflict. Each side in the war has their own lines, and the disagreement between those lines is the space both sides settle via conflict. If those lines are the same, then there is no disagreement on the outcome, and both sides can negotiate a peaceful settlement. In the case of Israel and Hezbollah, those lines may as well be in different universes. Both sides expect to take heavy losses, and both sides expect to break the enemy's resolve. Both sides see the other's existence as an existential threat to their own survival. Not only is peace in these circumstances as likely a mid-summer blizzard in Miami, but it is also just about as welcome. I certainly hope for peace. Surely enough people have died already in this conflict. But I cannot see how anything short of a miracle will achieve a bloodless peace, and I don't believe in miracles.
Win? Did you even looked at map or bloody wiki? What "sides" you even talk about? Hezbolla is Iranian proxy and not interested in any "peaceful settlement" of any kind. Israel's objective is hold these clowns in check by most cost-efficient way.
>> will achieve a bloodless peace
I see that history is not your strong side as you seems to think that there's a such thing as "bloodless peace" anywhere
Simon, that was a SERIOUS EPISODE 👍🏻good work!
Simon's looking quite beefy! 🤩
Looked for this I commented similar 😂
As an Israeli, this was very sobering.
Im keep up to date on all these things yet you managed to offer important points of interest i overlooked or didnt consider.
Simon, dont know if youll see this, but if anyones interested, this is by far one of your best pieces of the conflict here.
Really good work.
As a Palestinian we want peace. No more war with cousins. I have learned that Israelis view us as subhuman. Shame on Israelis for their arrogance .
I certainly respect the writers of this show ever since the beginning and I know you all are turning these out quick. This episode has had quite a few rough cuts of Simon talking. No matter though keep this great show going please!!
I watched a movie about a japanese kamikaze-to-be pilot. I said, they were ready to die, but when visited Hirosima he understood, that it was over...
Israel: "please write your name and address if you'd like war. Well engage in combat against you as soon as our millitary is able. Thanks for your patience"
Hezbollah: "guys there's a bit of a wait but I signed us up to fight israel"
"Hey, how you doin? sorry you can't get though. why don't you leave your name and your number, and we'll come get you too"!
Israel: '' O NO MAJOR PROBLEM!!! NO MORE KIDS IN GAZA TO BOMB!!!
Israeli commander: No worries There are other nations that have kids we can bomb!!!
@@darkbozo11if Hamas were not cowards who hide behind kids…
@@daduzadude1547 so if someone hides behind kids its ok to kill innocent kids? What kind of horrible monster are you?
Please learn about international laws conducting war and warcrimes.. Clearly you are 300 years behind the civil world.
@@daduzadude1547 they dont, you're breainwashed
Lots of good stuff here. However, if I may, a few points worth considering. Israeli intelligence got the Hamas raids wrong, the immediate IDF response was equally flawed so lets not go overboard on how effective these agencies are. Also the impact of the war so far on Israel's economy seems to have been largely ignored. America is said to have decided to end the Vietnam war as they could not afford it anymore. Much like Britain withdrawing from America in the war of Independence. Finally, and most worrying, Israel has nuclear weapons. If a war against Hezbollah goes very, very wrong Israel might use its nuclear arsenal, the Samson option. There are enough right wing extremists in the Israeli cabinet to seriously consider this.
The “Holocaust Bomb” would be a very bad “look” - and would probably bring-back unfortunate memories of Einstein’s refusal to be Israel’s President .
The United States left the Vietnam war because the media turned on the military, as they have done every major conflict since. It's the reason we are absolutely vulnerable anywhere that is not American soil. We can't stomach war. Most have never seen it. We haven't grown up having relatives die or schools bombed and so on. The vast majority of the American population is completely disassociated with any war that's ever happened. When they hear or see details they're appalled. That's in contrast to nations paying families for any terrorist that killed someone, and a population sold on a religious ideology and absolutely cohesive in their jihad. This is all moot because we all know what this ends with: Israel wins. Either the win outright or the United States eliminates hezbollah. Or greatly reduces it. For better or worse, there is no scenario in which Israel is allowed to fall. Period.
He mentioned the nukes
another part he stated which is outright, wrong. is claiming hzb could take prisoners of war. for a journalist he seems to treat it as if that would at least slow them down, which someone like him should know based on factual evidence that this would not be the case.
@@JM-wf2toThere is no scenario were Israel is allowed to fall
I might push back on that I think that The us already sees Israel as a high Price low benefit asset and the problem is not really Hezbollah or Hamas
But the fact that Israel is seen in the middle east since day 1 as a foreign entity imposed by the west wether that is right or wrong that is the filling
So even if you destroy Hamas wish Israel failed to destroy in 9 months there will be an other Hamas even if you destroy Hezbollah There will be another Hizbollah
So what is the us plan support Israel Israel for eternity and b Behind
One important point which I think wasn't properly framed is that from the Israeli perspective, the Hezbullah situation can essentially only get worse - that we should've gone for it back in 2010 when they were already breaking the ceasefire terms and building up artillery south of the unifil line, and that the more we wait the worse it gets, meaning that as devestating as a war would be right now, if we get "peace" for 5 more years it will only get worse. I feel like there also wasn't enough emphasis on the fact that currently tens of thousands of Israeli citizens are living away from their northern homes: how much longer can this be allowed to continue?
I hope that somehow the war with Hezbullah never comes, but very sadly, it might have to happen sooner rather than later.
I can't help but think abput that line from "The Longesf Day," where the early morning event cannot be met because the leader was sleeping. Did Doctor Jill tell the Israelis what to do about Hezbollah?
It seems like a parallel with the PLO in the 1970’s in Jordan, a non-state actor shooting missiles across into Israel. The Jordanian armed forces were @ war with the PLO & finally evicted them. As Hezbollah has insinuated itself into the governance of Lebanon it will be difficult for Lebanon to remove them. Lebanon pre 1968 was the jewel of the Eastern Mediterranean now its economy is a shambles in governance with inflation down from 123% to 70% in March.
Eilat - gone bankrupt
@@RussellAlami the city of Eilat is doing well. You probably mean Eilat's port.
Just when I thought the struggles of covid were over, along comes war
Covid was a lie.
@@zacherylamb8811 your mom is a lie
There were dozens of wars and genocides that took place during covid. What rock were you living under?
It's not unrelated.
Covid brought stimulus spending.
Stimulus spending brought inflation.
Inflation brought high interest rates.
High interest rates brought economic insecurity.
Economic insecurity brought war.
Also in what world was covid comparable to rockets blowing up homes and slaughtering people's children?
We didn't struggle that hard through COVID.
I was about to say this is just pointless, then I realized that you have to do it for those who weren't alike in 1983. I may be off a year either way. The circle comes around again and again.
Simon, I dare you to show me a single source, where anyone you named as being "Axis" used that term in a self descriptive way ....
I'll wait ...
Dude he's not going to reply to you regardless of how he feels. You have serious main character syndrome.
@@wingerding😂😂
Why once? Here's 3 examples...
In 2006, the Palestinian minister of the interior, Said Saim, used the term during an interview at Al-Alam television to refer to common political goals among Arabs in opposition to those of Israel or the United States. Noting the large number of Palestinian refugees in Syria, Saim stated, "Syria is also an Islamic Arab country and is also targeted by the Americans and the Zionists. Hence, we see in Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas an axis of resistance in front of these pressures."[38]
The term "axis of resistance" was used as early as August 2010.[39] After two years, Ali Akbar Velayati, senior advisor for foreign affairs to Iran's supreme leader, used the term and said:
The chain of resistance against Israel by Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, the new Iraqi government, and Hamas passes through the Syrian highway... Syria is the golden ring of the chain of resistance against Israel.[40]
The phrase was used again in August 2012 during a meeting between Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, regarding the Syrian civil war.[41] Velayati said:
What is happening in Syria is not an internal issue, but a conflict between the axis of resistance and its enemies in the region and the world. Iran will not tolerate, in any form, the breaking of the axis of resistance, of which Syria is an intrinsic part.[40]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_Resistance#Etymology
Simon needs some sunlight.
Any chance that you adjust Simon's audio above a whisper? Probably not.
I can't imagine being this passive aggressive on the internet
Get your ears checked.
Stop with the crappy music....not suited for the subject
He’s still wearing the t-shirt. I 100% believe Simon is being held hostage