Everywhere on the news it’s speaking of Israeli attacks on Hezbollah as though it’s out of the blue. Are people not aware they’ve fired thousands of rockets, missiles, and drones to Israel the last year? That 12 Israeli children were killed on a soccer field in a Hezbollah strike? That Northern Israel has been on fire for months?
So if Israel targeted Hezbollah senior agents by exploding their terrorist beepers, that is not an escalation. It’s a highly targeted operative response that rid us of many people actively trying to murder innocent Israeli citizens for the last entire year.
The operations since have also been targeted, unless you think it’s coincidence that in the past week, Nasrallah lost nearly all his deputies. He has to replace his whole senior chain of command. That doesn’t happen by chance.
Did these operations have zero collateral damage? No. No war of this scale does and expecting that is an impossible standard no other country has ever met.
Obviously, it would be better to have no war. Someone please tell Hezbollah to stop attacking us so we don’t have to stop them ourselves.
Hezbollah is the world’s heaviest armed terrorist group. They started this war with an estimated 120-200 thousand rockets and missiles (hard to say exact numbers). They’ve used about ten thousand so far and haven’t used any of their long-range missiles yet. Their annual budget is about a billion US dollars. They aren’t poor, they aren’t oppressed, they aren’t desperate. They simply want us dead and our country destroyed, as they’ve proven thousands of times the last year.
And they want us to stop waging war against Hamas, so Hamas can rebuild strong enough to attack us again.
We are Hezbollah’s primary enemy. They. Want. Us. Dead. This morning, a Hezbollah ballistic missile tried to strike Tel Aviv. The fact it didn’t hit, thanks to very expensive defensive technology we built out of necessity, doesn’t negate the fact they sent a 15-ton missile and hoped it would hit and kill Israeli civilians. This morning, one million Israelis were sent to shelter because of that missile. Over 10% of our population. What are we supposed to do? Someone please tell me.
A whole year of thousands of Hezbollah attacks. About 80 thousand northern Israeli citizens displaced for months. Children and adults traumatized by the constant, daily bombardment Hezbollah sends us.
And suddenly, Israel and Lebanon is an issue worldwide.
Is it only news when the people under attack aren’t Israeli? Because we’ve been dealing with this all year. Thanks for finally paying attention, world, just in time to name us the aggressor.
