Thoughts about the blast:- Easy access to Port from the sea-Israel covets Lebanese oil reserves (claim as their own)Massive Natural Gas resources to spark attack by Israel on Lebanon - Israel occupies Lebanese lands- Israel breaches Lebanese air space to wage war on Syria- Hariri “Verdict”I was always of the mind that Israel was behind the massive explosion that took out Rafic HaririMassive Explosion Killed Hariri 05
“Israel has the capability to carry out this type of operation, such as Hariri’s assassination and the other assassinations that targeted Lebanon during the past few years,” said Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, adding that Israel’s motive was to cast the blame on its enemies, Syria and Hezbollah.
“Israel wouldn’t miss a chance to create uproar and use Hariri’s blood to drive Syria out of Lebanon and besiege the resistance,” he said referring to Hezbollah.The most sensational revelation, however, was Nasrallah’s claim that Hizbullah had discovered how to intercept television footage from Israeli reconnaissance drones flying over southern Lebanon in the mid 1990s. He said that drone images intercepted by Hezbollah led the group to stage an ambush in September 1997 in which 11 members of a 16-strong elite Israeli naval commando unit were killed.
More footage from Israeli drones showed routes taken by Rafik Hariri’s motorcade in Beirut, including the scene of his subsequent assassination.“Was that a coincidence?” Nasrallah asked. “Such footage generally comes as the first leg of the execution of an operation.”
Israel had the means, the motivation and the most to gain from the Hariri assassination then and the destabilizing affects of the pre determined verdict, now. Reuters
a U.N.-backed court trying four suspects from Shi’ite Hezbollah delivers a verdict on Friday that could shake the country again. Hariri’s assassination prompted mass protests in Beirut and a wave of international pressure which forced Syria to end its 29-year military presence in Lebanon after the U.N. investigator linked it with the bombing.
Few expect the defendants to be handed over if convicted, but any guilty verdicts could pose a problem to the government and deepen rifts unresolved since the 1975-1990 civil war. The country is already reeling from the worst economic crisis in decades and a deepening COVID-19 outbreak.
After the UN linked Syria to the bombing?? But, not Israel? Biggest benefactor in the region. Cui Bono.And now the port explosion... all very destabilizing, wouldn’t you agree?Port of Beirut: Major shipping point reduced to rubblePort of Beirut - Devastated
On Tuesday, a massive blast in Beirut rippled across vast swathes of the city, leaving at least 100 people dead and more than 4,000 injured, while causing widespread damage.The explosion has increased the pain from a severe economic crisis and severe political polarization in a country where regional and international parties overlap.The Port of Beirut is the largest shipping and clearing point in Lebanon, through which approximately 70% of the incoming and outgoing trade traffic to and from the country passes, according to the port's website.Economy Minister Raoul Nehme Wednesday said Lebanon had enough grain reserves for “a bit less than a month” after the explosion destroyed the nation’s main silo.“We are currently looking for storage areas,” Nehme told Reuters, adding that Lebanon needed enough inventories to last at least three months to ensure its food security.Meanwhile, Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud said the blast had left more than 200,000 people homeless, causing damage to buildings worth between $3 billion and $5 billion – and “maybe more.”The port is located in a strategic area linking the commercial markets of Asia, Europe and Africa and thus reduces the duration of commercial navigation voyages compared with other routes.
The irregular warfare destabilazation rumbling begins- Economic hit. Infrastructure hit.Food shortages.