The first Israeli Prime Minister has ordered the destruction of a Hizbollah weapons warehouse in Beirut with a new weapon. The weapon, which is not well known, caused considerable damage in the city, killing more than 100 people, injuring 5,000 and destroying many buildings. This time it will be difficult for Benjamin Netanyahu to deny it.
The
first Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, authorized a strike against a
Hezbollah arms depot using a new weapon that has been tested for seven months
in Syria. It is not known whether the second Prime Minister, Benny Gantz, gave
his consent.
The strike was carried out on August 4, 2020, at the exact location
designated by Benjamin Netanyahu in his speech to the United Nations on
September 27, 2018 [1].
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It is not known what weapon was
used. However, it has already been tested in Syria since January 2020. It
is a missile with a tactical nuclear component in its warhead that causes a
smoke mushroom characteristic of nuclear weapons. It is obviously not an atomic
bomb in the strategic sense.
The
weapon was tested in Syria on a plain in the countryside and then in the
Persian Gulf on the water against Iranian military vessels. This is the first
time it has been used in an urban environment, in a particular environment that
made the air blast and vibrations reflect off the water and the mountains. Far
from destroying only the port of Beirut, it killed about a hundred people,
injured at least 5,000 others, and largely destroyed the eastern part of the
city (the western part was largely protected by the grain silo).
Israel immediately activated its networks
in the international media to cover up its crime and lend credence to the idea
of the accidental explosion of a fertilizer stockpile. As is often the case,
false culprits are named, and the international media machine repeats this lie
over and over again in the absence of any investigation. Yet there was indeed a
smokestack incompatible with the thesis of a fertilizer explosion.
Just as neither Syria nor Iran
had communicated about this weapon when they were hit, the Lebanese political
parties immediately reached an agreement not to say anything in order not to
demoralize their population. An investigation was opened, not into
the cause of the explosion, but into the responsibility of the port’s personnel
for the storage of the fertilizer allegedly responsible for the explosion.
However, this lie soon turned against the political parties that had imagined
it.
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The
United Nations Tribunal for Lebanon, which was due to make public its verdict in
the case of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005,
decided to postpone it for a few days. Identically in that case, the explosion
of a pickup truck masked the firing of a missile with a new weapon, just as
this time the explosion of nitrate masked the firing of a missile with another
new weapon.
Five years later, five years
too late, I revealed in a Russian magazine the manner in which Rafik Hariri had
been killed [2], while Hezbollah published a video
attesting to Israel’s involvement.
It is important to note that the 2005
assassination targeted a former Sunni Prime Minister and that the 2020 attack
targeted not Shiite Hezbollah, but the Lebanese Resistance as a whole.
This time, several embassies carried
out surveys, including taking grain samples and air filters from ambulances
that immediately went to the scene. They are already being examined in their
respective countries.
—
[1] “Remarks
by Benjamin Netanyahu to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General
Assembly”, by Benjamin Netanyahu, Voltaire Network, 27
September 2018.
[2] “Revelations
on Rafik Hariri’s assassination”, by Thierry Meyssan, Оdnako (Russia) , Voltaire
Network, 29 November 2010.
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