“The US will not be able to defend Israel in the event of a war against Hezbollah as it defended Israel during Iran’s missile and drone attack in April,” Brown said. “It is much more difficult to create an effective defense system against Hezbollah’s rockets and short-range missiles that are regularly and routinely launched at Israel,” he said.
General Brown’s words come during Defense Minister Yoav Galant’s visit to the United States, where he discussed with senior American officials the possibility of war with Hezbollah and the threat posed by Iran. Brown said that “the United States continues to hold talks with Israeli leaders and warn against the expansion of the conflict, and the important message that is being conveyed It is necessary to think about the secondary effect of any operation in Lebanon, and how it can affect all the forces in the region.”
He emphasized that from the point of view of the US, the most important thing is the safety of the US military soldiers stationed in the region. He did not elaborate on whether special security arrangements had been made in preparation for the possibility of an expansion of the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, but emphasized that no American base in the Middle East had been attacked since February.
At the end of the week it was reported that senior officials of the Biden administration last week informed the head of the National Assembly Tzachi Hanegbi and Minister Ron Dermer during their meetings in Washington that the US undertakes to “fully support Israel in the event of a war against Hezbollah”. Last week it was announced that the Biden administration fears that in the event of a widespread war – Israel’s air defense system will have difficulty dealing with the strength and scope of Hezbollah’s launches towards Israeli territory.
On Saturday, the American aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower left the Red Sea, after fighting for about eight months against the threat of the Houthis in Yemen. It entered the Mediterranean Sea, and at the end of a short stay in the area it is expected to head back towards the USA in the coming days, and for a short period of time the area will remain without an American aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is expected to arrive in the area in a few weeks and be stationed in the area off the coast of Yemen, after completing a military exercise in the area The Indo-Pacific shared by the US, Japanese and South Korean armies.
Yesterday, the AP news agency reported that thousands of fighters of the pro-Iranian militias throughout the Middle East, mainly from Syria and Iraq, are preparing to arrive in Lebanon and join Hezbollah’s war against the IDF – if it turns into an all-out conflict. The report was based on sources in the militias and intelligence assessments, and joins previous threats On behalf of the militias, according to some reports, already in the Second Lebanon War in 2006, fighters from the militias in Iraq came to help Hezbollah against the IDF forces.