By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-28 15:36:54 | Updated at 2024-09-30 11:35:12
1 day ago
Killing Nasrallah
Tablet Magazine ^ | 9/28/24 | Lee Smith
Posted on 09/28/2024 7:32:21 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
Friday evening in the Levant, Israel targeted buildings in the southern suburbs of Beirut killing Hezbollah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah. This operation represents a dramatic shift in Israeli strategy. Not only have they finally liquidated an adversary they’ve long been capable of killing, they’ve also turned a deaf ear to their superpower patron of more than half a century. But at this stage, heeding Washington’s advice in war is like taking counsel from the angel of death. Just as the U.S. is no longer willing or able to win the wars it commits Americans to fight, the Joe Biden administration won’t let U.S. allies win wars either.
By ordering the strike on Nasrallah while attending the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli 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.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Hezbollah; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hezbollah; israel; narallah; netanyahu
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To: EnderWiggin1970
The IDF announced less than an hour ago that Nasrallah is dead, and it was accomplished when Netanyahu was addressing the UN.
2 posted on 09/28/2024 7:39:00 AM PDT by Spok (Listen to seekers of truth; avoid those who have found it.)
To: EnderWiggin1970
We haven’t won a war since WWII...
3 posted on 09/28/2024 7:43:30 AM PDT by null and void (Don't hallucinate and legislate, don't hallucinate and educate, don't hallucinate and procreate)
To: null and void
4 posted on 09/28/2024 7:43:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Spok
Netanyahu basically saying to the world, “ we can kill you anywhere, at any time of our choosing”.
It’s been a rough few months for all the Jew haters. Shalom, bitches!! 🖕🏻
5 posted on 09/28/2024 7:43:47 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
To: EnderWiggin1970
6 posted on 09/28/2024 7:44:06 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
To: Levy78
7 posted on 09/28/2024 7:45:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Spok
8 posted on 09/28/2024 7:45:21 AM PDT by xp38
To: EnderWiggin1970
Another one bites the dust...
9 posted on 09/28/2024 7:47:04 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
To: EnderWiggin1970
Woo hoo! Shabbat Shalom, y’all!
10 posted on 09/28/2024 7:48:55 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Don't let evil win again!)
To: Spok
11 posted on 09/28/2024 7:48:58 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
To: dfwgator
12 posted on 09/28/2024 7:52:28 AM PDT by null and void (Don't hallucinate and legislate, don't hallucinate and educate, don't hallucinate and procreate)
To: EnderWiggin1970
It was a brilliant plan that even Israel watchers did not see coming. I know I assumed that Israel’s plan was to invade Lebanon right after the c&c pagers and phones blew up. It wasn’t the main plan. The main plan was to force the Hezbollah hierarchy to meet personally by making them distrust their electronics. So when they did meet, they were all in one place to be eliminated from this world. If I were the Ayatollah, I would retire immediately and move my whole family to South America.
13 posted on 09/28/2024 7:53:54 AM PDT by Eli Kopter
To: EnderWiggin1970
Congratulations to Israel. Long live the IDF. Long live the Chosen People. Rot in hell, Nasrallah.
14 posted on 09/28/2024 8:19:59 AM PDT by nwrep
To: EnderWiggin1970
Nasrallah and Iran were counting on Israel’s reluctance to cross the US and ‘disobey’ Biden’s wishing. I suspect that there are many pro Iranian moles in the US Administration that have been advising Iran in advance of Israeli intentions. That is why Israel did not inform the US of their intentions before the Nasrallah mission.
15 posted on 09/28/2024 8:23:23 AM PDT by Eli Kopter
To: Eli Kopter
Pretty much every sen and rep in the rat party, the entire administration and every secretary, for starters, not counting spies and other covert foreign ops.
16 posted on 09/28/2024 8:26:45 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
To: null and void
The Gulf War was a win, in that it accomplished the mission of expelling Iraq from Kuwait.
17 posted on 09/28/2024 8:28:12 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
To: Eli Kopter
“If I were the Ayatollah, I would retire immediately and move my whole family to South America.”
Don’t you remember Israeli’s hunting down Nazi war criminals in Argentina for 40 years after WW II? Argentina isn’t safe.
18 posted on 09/28/2024 8:31:34 AM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (Seek you first the kingdom of God, and all things will be given to you.)
To: null and void
That’s because the dimocRAT/uniparty adhere to the failed LBJ war strategy. I believe it is a part of their insidious depopulation agenda.
19 posted on 09/28/2024 8:33:40 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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