Hitting a car with a drone carrying a grandmother and three children in Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah said it reserved the right to fire back at Israel opening up a new front at Israel battles Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Hebollah’s Supreme Leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Friday that Iran-backed Hezbollah could get involved in the war with Hamas, trading mortar and rocket fire on Israeli targets in Southern Lebanon and Northern Israel. Nasrallah didn’t say Friday that was officially entering the war but said that more attacks on Lebanon targets could prompt him to get involved. Nasrallah has pushed his luck striking Israeli targets in the Lebanon frontier. Lebanon’s beleaguered government doesn’t want Nasrallah to suck Beirut into another military conflict with Israel. U.S. officials worry that if the Hamas War goes much longer, Hezboallh could get involved.
Hamas and Hezbollha are part of what Iran calls the “axis of resistance” against Israel, paying proxies, like Yemnen’s Houthi rebels to join the fight against Israel. U.S. officials say they will defend Israel against potential attacks from Iranian proxies. Lebanon’s caretaker government is especially concerned about Nasrallah provoking Israel into more attacks against Lebanon. Whether admitted to or not, Lebanon has been a belligerent in past wars against Israel, especially the 1967 Six Day War and 1973 Yom Kippur War. Hezbollah went to war against Israel in 2006, battling to loggerheads but, at the same time, causing devastation to Beirut. Whatever deaths happened in Southern Lebanon, Western officials don’t want to see Nasrallah suck Lebanon into another military conflict with Israel. Both Hamas and Hezbollah take their orders from Iran, contributing directly to Oct. 7.
Israel’s Mossad and Shit Bet security services failed to intercept the Hamas massacre, raising questions about Israel’s security services. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compares Oct. 7 to Sept. 11, 2001, where Saudi-born Osama bin Laden masterminded attacks on the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Pentagon, killing about 3,000 U.S. citizens. Whatever happened on Sept. 11 or Oct. 7, both the U.S. and Israel were blindsided, a failure of intel and law enforcement. Iran celebrated on Sept. 11 and Oct. 7, attesting to their opposition to U.S. foreign policy. Pro-Palestinian demonstration around the U.S. show that plenty of Arabs living in the U.S. don’t understand the strategic importance of Israel to U.S. national security. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a Palestinian, refuses to accept the strategic importance of Israel to the United States.
Tlaib puts her homeland bias against U.S. national security, showing she’s not fit to serve in Congress. Tlaib didn’t pledge her loyality to Hamas or the Palestinian Authority [PA] when she took her oath of office Jan. 3, 2019. Yet she routinely disparages Israel, hoping to change U.S. foreign policy. Tlaib can’t stomach the fact that Jews have been patriotic Americans since Colonial Day, contributing to all aspects of American life. She sees Jews from her Palestinian perspective, that Jews hold loyalty to Israel, something utterly preposterous. Tlaib wants Jews in America treated as Middle Eastern immigrants, not accepting they’ve been an integral part of American culture for centuries. Whatever war Israel fights with Palestinian terrorists, it has nothing to do with America Jews, something Tlaib conflates with her immigrant mentality, having no history in America.
Pro-Palestinians protesters in the U.S. and elsewhere vandalize Jewish businesses, like Cantor’s Deli in Los Angeles, knowing Jewish businesses that have been in the U.S. since colonial days. Where do recent Middle East immigrants or others think that Amreican Jews are Israelis, or, for that matter, are Zionists. Most American Jews are not Zionists, certainly not Israelis, living their Americans lives like everyone else. Certainly Tlaib know the American Jews are integrated into every part of American society, including Wall Street, medicine, law, arts, entertainment, academia, journalism, education and practically every other area of American life. What kind of ignoramus equates American Jews with Zionists or Israelis? Tlaib wants the Arab community to punish Biden at the polls in 2024 because he backs America’s No. 1 ally in the Middle East. What type of oath did Tlaib take?
Concerns about the Hamas War spreading to other Arab states are deliberately exaggerated by Palestinian propagandists. Only a state sponsor of terror like Iran wants to exploit the Hamas War for their own political gain. Iran likes to fight through its proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Whatever pro-Palestinian protests in the U.S. and around the world, they’re driven by the same radical groups sowing chaos to promote socialism and anarchy. Politicians like Tlaib are angry that Middle Eaterners don’t have a long, storied history in the United States. Speaking about American Jews like they’re Zionists or Israelis reveals her twisted propaganda message, something confronted by the Biden administration. Biden understands thet Jewish American are an integral part of the United States, not foreigners looking to advance their own eccentric political agendas.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
