he ground. Israel will make a ground assault on Lebanon to try to get rid of Hezbollah once and for all. The IDF has confirmed that they killed the commander of Hamas in Lebanon. I don't know what the commander is so it's not the head guy. The head guy Sinwar is still around but they took out another leader.

Now you really have to ask yourself does Israel know at all times where all the leaders are or did somehow they just get lucky and found out just when they needed to kill them all? Because it looks to me like they have some kind of permanent program where they know where every bad guy leader is all the time. It seems like a big coincidence they could get them all in a week. So I mean the pager thing didn't require them to know where they were I guess so that was different. So it looks like the war is on. They're going to go in and take care of business.

It looks like if you judge based on what they've done so far they've crippled the communication which means it would be hard for Hezbollah to respond with a massive rocket attack at the same time because it would be hard to get the notice to everybody to do things simultaneously. So if they can't communicate well and all the leaders have been taken out this would be the time to attack if they're going to attack ever. This would be the time to do it.

Iran says they won't send forces to help Hezbollah. Why would they say it? It's interesting that they say it. It would be one thing not to do it but why do they say they're not going to send forces? Because doesn't that make it safer for Israel to go in? Or do they figure Israel is going in no matter what and they might as well at least avoid being painted in that same brush even though they're the ones supporting Hezbollah?

Well over in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia has banned all public displays of support for Palestine, Hamas and Hezbollah. So if you basically said something to even support them you get arrested in Saudi Arabia. So remember there was a story that said that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia was not interested in the Palestinian problem and then they tried to clean it up and say no no no he's totally interested but only because his citizens are interested. He's not interested personally. He doesn't think that he should be spending time on it but there are people in the country who think it's important. So he's acknowledging the importance of his citizens but at the same time he's acknowledging that the citizens have this view. He's making it very clear that he doesn't. And it makes sense because they're big competitors. Iran. So the Palestinians and Hamas and Hezbollah are allied with his enemies. So it makes sense that he would be trying to suppress them without making too big a deal with his own public.

The AP referred to Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah that got taken out, as charismatic and shrewd in one of their headlines. Charismatic and shrewd. Let's see how did they treat Republican Senator Jim Inhofe when he died? They called him he called human-caused climate change a hoax. So the AP is kinder to the head of Hezbollah than a Republican senator. Yep that's a real thing that happened.

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