The death of Mr. Nasrallah is a major escalation in Israel’s rapidly expanding campaign against the Iran-backed group.... Beirut was gripped on Saturday by a feeling that the capital was no longer safe after months of Hezbollah clashes across the country’s remote border with Israel. Thousands of people from outside Beirut spent the night sleeping on the streets and beaches of the capital....
September 28, 2024
"Hezbollah on Saturday confirmed the death of Hassan Nasrallah, its longtime leader, in an airstrike on the organization’s underground headquarters near Beirut, hours after Israel said he had been killed."
The NYT reports, just now.
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Another austere religious scholar gone.
Someone doesn’t know what “escalation” means. Or what the road to peace, actual peace, looks like.
Just wondering if the Hamas leadership, what's left of them, might be reconsidering their decision that led to the October 7 attack.
Major escalation? I scoff.
I don't often wish for the end of a person. But I've been wondering about this guy for years. He was the man behind the misery and death of so many people through so many years, not the least of whom were Arabs- both Muslim and Christian, in addition to Israelis, Americans, and Europeans.
I know the usual suspects will be decrying this action by Israel. They decry all actions by Israel short of Israel disappearing itself. But those people, by decrying Israel, are the ones pumping and supporting this ongoing war, this never ending destruction. If they cannot stand up to terror, to evil, to wrong, they should be nowhere near the leadership of free people. You don't negotiate with a thug calling for your death.
Remember the country called Lebanon? Iran, through Hezbollah, stole Lebanon decades ago. Perhaps the Lebanese would like their country back?
There's no question the Israelis are executing brilliantly an amazing plan but it seems like there's been a great deal of treachery along the way that might explain some of that as well. Whoever's left in Hezbollah, I don't think you want to trust the guy next to you. It's almost like if you're still alive you're probably a traitor or been compromised in some fatal way.
"Celebrations in Syria: Outrage has been widespread in the Middle East in recent days, but some celebrated Hezbollah’s misfortune. The group was key in helping President Bashar al-Assad of Syria crush his political opponents, and in some rebel strongholds there, people danced and sang in the streets."
Always illuminating how taking one difficult but necessary action can reveal new layers of reasons for the utility and virtues of that action. You can't bomb out hate but eliminating the worst haters might go far enough to deliver a peace and an opportunity for some different and better order of life.
Good. There is a God. The God of Abraham.
Israel has finally internalized that there is no real benefit to restraint.
The people who are "decrying" this killing are the people that made it this way. Any reasonable observer would realize Israel has been the most restrained and reluctant country in the world.
If they wanted Israel to stay that way they should have rewarded that.
But what about the half-million "recently-arriving migrant" criminals allowed to roam here, unfettered and free? Biden awards Ukraine another $8 billion, and Israel another $8 billion, added to multi-billions already granted to both countries, while our country has a roaming band of gangbanger criminals.
Crime spike already noted in our small Wisconsin city. Weekly knifings, bi-weekly shootings, car break-ins and petty thefts. It's not the Scandinavian Lutherans, or the German Catholics suddenly embracing a criminal lifestyle. Meanwhile, our public library has become immigration welfare station, free Zoom calls to home, free sleeping spots in upholstered chairs, free bathing in public rest rooms. Civilization, as we know it now.
How does one say "enough" in Hebrew? This is how.
There is more where this came from. Much more. I suspect this is neither the beginning of the end nor the end of the beginning. Eventually, maybe the Lebanese can take their country back from the Iranians. Inshallah.
Netanyahu Unchained. Produced by the UN, starring NGOs, directed by Hamasidols.
“Yalla ya Nasrallah,
We will f*ck you Inshallah,
We will return you to Allah,
With the entire Hezbollah”
—— the people of Tel Aviv
I wasn't grief stricken upon hearing the news, but neither do I think that this moves the world closer to peace.....I suppose it's theoretically possible that after a certain level of death and destruction some people's world view can change. It happened in Germany, Japan, and the Abbasid Caliphate, but this was a feather stroke compared to the Mongols and Curtis LeMay.
Suck on that, Lloyd Austin.
The Trump (et al) doctrine of dealing with these things quickly and decisively, finally. What next in Gaza?
Suck on that, Lloyd Austin.
Good for Israel. Hopefully they do not lose their resolve and continue to press the Iranians and other assorted terror groups.
I live in Dearborn and am on the large , primarliy Arab, Dearborn Instagram page. Dearborn is heavily Lebanese and Shiite. The comments are absolutely hilarious.
Shiites are a minority in the Muslim world and are considered heretics and are persecuted. They loathe ISIS, but don't recognize the Ayatollahs as the same in kind. They view Hezbollah and Nasrallah as a ... savior of some kind. It's been funny watching the whole thing unravel in the short span of a week. Hopefully, no one blows themselves up here.
Dayenu.
It curbed Iran's activity in Iraq and contributed to the abortion of Islamic State progress in the Middle East.
Note that yesterday Iran said Nazrallah had survived. Reminding us once again what value to put on Iranian statements.
You reap what you sow.
I have had friends who lived in Lebanon but were forced out by the Muslim invasion. It was once a beautiful country.
And Biden and his regime.
Next do Tehran.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
"Beirut was gripped on Saturday by a feeling that the capital was no longer safe ...".
Yeah, I've always pretty much equated "Beirut" and "safety".
That's one less terrorist in Lebanon, one giant leap for peace in the Middle East.
Filed under self-defense that we approve of
Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, heyaaa, goodbye!
All of the people lamenting this attack on Hezbollah think, "If only Israel didn't exist, all would be well". They're not seeing that there will never be "be well" with this terroristic ideology alive anywhere. Its aim is to destroy all of the West. Israel is just seen as easiest first kill.
The death of Mr. Nasrallah is a major escalation in Israel’s rapidly expanding campaign against the Iran-backed group
Killing terrorists is now escalation? Never change New York Times, never change.
The Biden/Harris policy is weird. There is a religious belief in a two state solution and yet they don’t comprehend that the only possible path to that requires the elimination of the satanic scum of Hamas and Jezabelloh.
It would be none of our business if they left us out of it. But they want our weapons, and even our boys, so, like it or not, people are going to ask themselves whether a war like this is in the best interests of... you know, The United States of America?
Bombs went BOOM!!!
The Biden/Harris policy is to say one thing and do another. If they didn’t want Nasrallah assassinated they wouldn’t have handed Israel the weaponry required to accomplish the assassination.
We spend in excess of eight hundred billion dollars a year in defense along with God knows what on intelligence. And what for and whom against? Russia, China, Iran and Islamic terrorists. People who complain about funding arms to Israel and Ukraine should consider those countries by greatly diminish their enemies are also greatly diminishing our enemies. And comparing to what we spend of useless nonsense, fairly cheap. China who copies Russian weapon systems is watching what second hand American weapons can do to what is better than what they have and what we can arm Taiwan with. Russia is losing the war albeit slowly. Give Ukraine longer range weapons, lift the restrictions and adequately supply them and the Russians will see the light and return to the international borders. Putin's nuclear threats are as much a threat as Obama's redlines. Israel besides the fact that it is defending itself is also weakening an avowed enemy of ours. The Iranians aren't joking when they chant "death to America". A diminished Russia, Iran and a cautioned China is nothing but a blessing for us. No America troop deployment needed.
Far as I'm concerned, they've been epically restrained and precise in their targeting. Especially the 'From the Liver to the Knee' beeper program...
They're likely quite unhappy that Israel didn't let them know before the attack.
Pretty soon the money from Iran will stop flowing, and then where will they be?
Right.
If I could see it coming, surely they could see it coming.
In the news: Hezbollah has replaced Hassan Nasrallah with Hassan Khalil Yassin.
Also in the news: Hassan Khalil Yassin has been eliminated.
Which is the point of leaving some alive...
In 1958 it would have been mostly correct. Most people who remember that era are now gone.
I have started the rumor that Hillary Clinton is the new leader of Hezbollah- pass it on.
Israel is doing the civilized world a big favor, at great cost to themselves in lives and resources. I for one am happy to subsidize their efforts. Your mileage may vary.
"Beirut was gripped on Saturday by a feeling that the capital was no longer safe"
WTF? Beirut hasn't been safe since Hezbollah was created. With Hezbollah severely damaged, it might finally become safe again
I will confess, I'm of two minds about this. He seems to have led Hezballess very poorly. So there's a chance that someone better could replace him.
Or that Hezballess could have a civil war to replace him.
But the place he was had lots of things that are better off destroyed. And there were a bunch of Iranian military there, too.
So burn in hell, scum
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underscored the Jewish state’s independence from the global consensus that has resolved not to confront terrorists but rather to appease them, whether they’re plotting in the Middle East or living among the local populations of Western nations, including the United States. Israel’s attack also shows that almost everything U.S. and other Western civilian and military leaders have believed about the Middle East for the last 20 years was simply a collection of excuses for losing wars. The questions that senior policymakers and Pentagon officials, think-tank experts and journalists have deliberated over since the invasion of Iraq—questions about the nature of modern warfare and the proper conduct of international relations in a multipolar world, etc.—can now be set aside for good because they have been resolved definitively.
The answers are as they ever were—at least before the start of the “global war on terror.” Contrary to the convictions of George W. Bush-era neoconservatives and the pro-Iran progressives in Barack Obama’s camp, securing a nation’s peace has nothing to do with winning narratives, or nation-building, or balancing U.S. allies against your mutual enemies for the sake of regional equilibrium, or any of the other academic theories generated to mask a generation’s worth of failure. Rather, it means killing your enemies, above all those who advocate and embody the causes that inspire others to exhaust their murderous energies against you. Thus, killing Nasrallah was essential.
Above is copied from a Tablet Magazine article titled "Killing Nasrallah" ! I think is summarizes a failed 20+ years policy regarding the Middle East.
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