Hands blown to bits; eyes blasted out; testicles shredded.
That was the grim reckoning delivered to Hezbollah terrorists this week via remotely exploded pagers and walkie talkies.
Thousands injured; roughly forty killed. But the damage to Hezbollah’s vicious organization went far beyond the physical; the psychological toll is immense. What will they use now to connect with each other, I wonder — carrier pigeons?
The ingenious attack seemed, at first, like 007-style fiction; but it was fact.
Here’s a few more facts (and facts are facts, no matter how much the vast and growing legions of anti-Semites want to label facts as “disinformation” when they don’t square with their unrelenting hatred of Jews):
The fact is that on October 7th last year Hamas terrorists savagely attacked Israel in one of the most unthinkable orgies of murder, rape, and hostage-taking the world has ever seen.
The fact is that Israel responded to that diabolical act of aggression as any sane nation would: by declaring war on the perpetrators — perpetrators who have never, ever wavered in their stated goal of wiping Israel from the face of the earth, even after almost a year of open warfare that has left Gaza in ruins and tens of thousands of their own people dead.
The fact is that an enormous proportion of those dead are dead because Hamas routinely uses civilians as human shields while they themselves hide like rats in tunnels, with their core operations embedded within and under hospitals and schools — a war crime if ever there was one.
The fact is that Israel’s efforts to mitigate civilian casualties are unprecedented in the history of modern warfare. Even if the number reported by the Gaza Health Ministry of 42,000 dead (including miltary combatants) is to be believed, the Gaza Strip is home to a population of roughly two million Palestinians. Yet somehow Israel is supposed to be guilty of genocide. Perhaps her many haters could pick up a dictionary, in any language, and review the definition of the term; here’s the English rendition, from dictionary.com: “The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group”. The combatant in this war which is hellbent on achieving genocide, it seems to me — because they tell us so, over and over again — is Hamas. And perhaps Hamas’ defenders could point us to where the history books record a war which doesn’t involve civilian casualties.
The fact is that war is hell; and the fact is that Hamas initiated this war. It would be over today if Hamas surrendered and returned the hostages they took last October. That’s the ceasefire we need; but that’s a ceasefire that will never come.
And the fact is that Hamas’s sister terrorist organization, Hezbollah — completely aligned with Hamas in their aim of eradicating Jews — responded to the October 7 atrocities by stepping up daily missile and drone attacks on Israel from its base in Lebanon. On July 27 one of their rockets slaughtered twelve Israeli Druze children playing soccer.
Finally, the fact is that the pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah were brilliant, perhaps the most impeccably targeted and well-executed assault on enemy combatants ever recorded.
That last fact didn’t quell the outrage that immediately erupted, however, from all the usual quarters.
Among them, predictably, U.S. congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
“This attack clearly and unequivocally violates international humanitarian law and undermines US efforts to prevent a wider conflict.”
Because what do you call it when Israel takes out a bunch of terrorists, with minimal civilian casualties? Why, that’s genocide, of course — against terrorists!
From United Nations chief António Guterres:
“I think it’s very important that there is an effective control of civilian objects, not to weaponize civilian objects.”
Got that? Targeting Hezbollah-issued pagers, issued to Hezbollah terrorists who use them in the furtherance of their mission to eradicate Jews, isn’t acceptable because they’re “civilian objects.”
Israel can’t win for losing. They’re damned if they defend themselves but doomed if they don’t.
Is it any surprise that they’ve chosen defence over doomsday? Do they have any other choice?
Western nations like Canada certainly do have a choice: they can choose to stand in solidarity with Israel, on the side of righteousness. Or they can choose to stand with Hamas, on the side of murderous barbarism.
That Canada has chosen to stand with Hamas — we did it again this week in choosing to “abstain” from yet another United Nations vote condemning Israel rather than Hamas — is irredeemably despicable.
We abstained from standing up for morality. And by doing so we stood up for evil. To our eternal shame.
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