If you've been paying attention to Israel's bombardment of Gaza, you know that Israel hasn't earned any significant military wins against the Palestinian resistance. It's honestly been humiliating for them, on top of the humiliation of Oct 7th. Israel has been overcompensating by obliterating Gazan lineages and planting Israeli flags into flattened blocks, but the IOF keeps getting beaten by the guerilla warfare of the resistance.

Now, likely in an attempt to achieve SOME kind of military win, Israel has allegedly bombed a top Hamas leader in Beirut. Beirut is the capital of Lebanon, located in central Lebanon. This is a MAJOR escalation, both territorially and also symbolically.

Note that the entire time Israel has been genociding Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, the zionist entity has also been bombarding southern Lebanon, killing civilians, journalists, and attacking medical centers there, to which Hezbollah has responded, but in a restrained fashion. That restraint will likely ebb considerably now.

Coupled with US strikes on Yemeni ships, the whole region is escalating fast. Coupled with Iranian missiles being primed in Venezuela as a deterrent, Iranian escalation is not out of the picture. Coupled with Chinese weapons in the hands of Hamas, this has some real WW3 vibes.

I think they're are hoping to kick off another conflict, this time with Hezbollah, so that they can commit a genocide in Lebanon while there's still US political cover, as well as be able to prolong Bibi Netanyahu's power since all the investigations against him are really on hold until "the crisis is over"

the Axis of Resistance

The "critical" part of "critical support" today is "man you really don't want to call yourself the Axis anything today, especially if you're fighting an enemy that labels any resistance antisemitism"