šµšø š®š± š®š· Waiting for war in Haifa | Gidon Ben-Zvi
š¤ Gidon Ben-Zvi contributes to The Algemeiner, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, CiF Watch and blogs at Jerusalem State of Mind.
š¶ļø "Israelis sitting in front of their television screens canāt help but notice that the Home Front Commandās list of areas where red alert alarms are going off is increasing daily. And with Hezbollahās theater of operations expanding, Israel is effectively shrinking. As a result, residents of HaifaāIsraelās third largest city, with a population of close to 300,000ābelieve that itās only a matter of time before they are ordered to evacuate their homes."
š¶ļø "Haifa is now next in line to be attacked by Hezbollah. It lives a life in limbo. We continue to work. Our children go to school. But the red alerts are multiplying. My cousin in the northern coastal city of Nahariyaāabout a 30-minute drive from Haifaānow regularly hears bombs overhead, forcing her and her family to run to their homeās safe room. My wife and her workplace colleagues in Acreā25 minutes by car from where we liveāare constantly hearing sirens. Virtually every afternoon, my kids come home from school with updates about another classmate whose father has been called up for a second tour of reserve duty, this time in the north."
š¶ļø "We have entered a period of threat and waiting. What the people of the north are experiencing today is not unlike the hamtanah the āWaiting Periodā before the 1967 Six-Day War. During the three weeks of the hamtanah, Arab nations were poised to annihilate Israel. Jerusalem mobilized the IDF reserves. In this tension-filled time, Israeli morale plummeted, catalyzing a political crisis that led to the formation of Israelās first unity government."
š¶ļø "Based on Hezbollahās modus operandi, anything short of a rapid reestablishment of the preemption doctrine could well lead to Israel having to abandon the Galilee and other parts of the north. At this rate, people will soon be talking about a Kfar Saba envelope in addition to the one around Gaza. It would be a damned shame to have to leave it all behind."
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ā Hypothetically, if the U.S. wanted to carry out a naval landing in Iran, they would do it somewhere outside the Persian Gulf, most likely Chabahar or somewhere else in the flat open coasts of Sistan-Balochistan Province.
That way, they donāt need to risk their ships entering the Persian Gulf under heavy anti-ship fire and incoming drones while trying to land their soldiers on a rugged coastline full of fortified positions and artillery emplacements.
In Chabahar, they could bring their ships close enough to the shore with relative safety, under heavy air cover. U.S. jets, drones, and attack helicopters would suppress any anti-ship batteries heavily, and create sufficiently safe conditions for the initial ālandingā. One also cannot rule out the possibility of deploying U.S. airborne forces to secure key sites before an amphibious landing is attempted.
This might be coupled with increased Balochi terrorist activity across the Iranian rear lines, complicating logistics and the transfer of ...