Did you know that Israel’s apparent responsibility for blowing up all those pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon – the ones being used by hezbollah, the Iran-trained/Iran-supported terrorist organization which has been bombing northern Israel every day for years – was an act of aggression rather than retaliation?
From Elena Salvoni’s article for London’s Daily Telegraph, we have this:
Hezbollah’s leader has condemned Israel after thousands of pagers and walkie talkies exploded over two days, saying ‘all red lines have been crossed by the enemy’ and that the deadly attacks ‘deserve a response’.
In his first address since the attacks began to wreak havoc across Lebanon on Tuesday, Nasrallah said more than 4,000 devices were detonated with the intention of killing thousands.
‘This could be called a declaration of war,’ Nasrallah told his followers. ‘We have received a very hard hit, but this is the state of war. Through this experience and its lessons we will be stronger and more powerful.’
Nasrallah said the explosions had ‘happened in hospitals, pharmacies, markets, shops, houses and in cars,’ as well as in the streets ‘where many civilians were along with women and children.’
‘This is the scale of criminality,’ he said. ‘What can we call this kind of criminal action – is it a big operation? Is it genocide? Is it a massacre?’
He said the death toll, which stands at 37 in total, could have been far higher, but that not all the pagers and radios had been handed out and not all fighters were with their communication devices when the blasts were triggered.
While high ranking officials, including Iran’s envoy to Beirut, are confirmed to have been wounded in the blasts, Nasrallah insisted that top Hezbollah members did not carry the model of pagers that exploded.
‘What happened did not impact our command, control or infrastructure’, he added, though he admitted that it had been a major security breach.
nasrallah’s position seems to be that if you attack Israel daily, using assets provided by a proxy that marches its people in the streets ranting “Death to America! Death to Israel”, you haven’t given Israel any legitimate reason to retaliate.
But, however unaccountably to the nasrallahs of the world (and there are tons of them), Israel sees things a bit differently.
I can’t say I’m surprised.
I’d like to think this would cause nasrallah to call off his hezbollah thugs for at least a little while. But, like yahya sinwar of hamas, since he himself is safe, and it’s only others – civilians as well as his operatives – who are being injured/killed, let the games continue.
This is what Israel faces every day. Never, ever forget that.
