LOS ANGELES.–Declaring war against Israel, Hezbollah’s 64-year-old Supreme Leader Hassan Nasrallah called the pager and walkie-talkie bombs and act of war, in what’s become as shift in major fighting from the Gaza front. Gaza in the last 11 months has reduced Hamas to a shell of its former self, no longer a viable fighting force against Israel but reduced to hiding senior Hamas leaders like 62-year-old Yahya Sinwar to living deep inside Gaza’s labyrinth of military tunnels. Nasrallah served notice today that Hamas would not stop its daily rocket attacks at Israel until Israel ended its war in Gaza. Hezbollah, Hamas and Yemen’s Houthi rebels are all part of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” against Israel, a phony alliance established by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to wipe Israel off the map. Hamas was founded in 1987 by Sheikh Ahme Yassin for the purpose of destroying the Jewish State.
Nasrallah seems surprised by recent explosions of sabotaged electronic devices considering he’s been at war with Israel, firing rockets at Israeli settlements, driving 80,000 Israelis from their kibbutzes in Northern Israel. So when Nasrallah acts like the victim to Israeli retaliation he pretends that he hasn’t been battling Israel for the last 11 months. “You can call it anything, and it deserves to be called anything,” Nasrallah said, adding that “some people might go further and say that this was an introduction an, and hours later, there will be a large scale military operation. This is up for debate,” Nasrallah said sounding incoherent. Nasrallah knows that he ordered Hezbollah to start firing rockets into Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacre that killed over 1,200 Israelis and others and taking another 251 hostage, at least 97 still languishing in Gaza’s tunnels.
At least 30 people and thousands others were killed and injured by exploding electronic devices, apparently boobytrapped by Israel’s Mossad Security Service. Nasrallah blamed the electronic sabotage on the U.S. and NATO, who had nothing to do with Mossad’s infiltration of Hezbollah security. Nasrallah was the one who ordered Hezbollah to buy some 5,000 low-tech pagers for communication to avoid cell phone transmissions more easily tracked by Israel. Nasrallah can’t admit that going to war against a technologically superior enemy carries with it a heavy price, like the exploding electronic devices seen on Tuesday and Wednesday. Nasrallah said he’ll be on a war footing with Israel until it ends its Gaza War, something not likely to stop until Israel gets Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, now designated by Hamas as its new leader for massacring Israelis, mainly teenagers and young adults.
If Nasrallah said he’s part of the “resistance,” a term used by Iran to designate states or terror groups committed to destroying Israel. “There is no doubt that we were subjected a big strike security-wise and human-wise, and unprecedented in the history of resistance in Lebanon,” Nasrallah said. “It might also be unprecedented in the world,” Nasrallah said, referring to exploding electronic devices designed to kill and main Hezbollah backers. Nasrallah decided to join Hamas’s fight for survival after the Oct. 7 atrocity, where Hamas raped, tortured and murdered over 1,200 Israelis and others. Nasrallah joined the fight against Israel discriminately firing his Iranian stockpile or rockets into Israel, driving some 80,000 Israelis out of their homes, settlements and kibbutzes. Nasrallah knows that when he’s not attacking Israel, Israel does not bomb Hezbollah or anywhere in Lebanon.
Nasrallah said that “the resistance in Lebanon will not stop supporting and stand with the people of Gaza and the West Bank,” even after the pager and walkie-talkie explosions. Nasrallah reminded his Hezbollah followers that the war with Israel won’t stop until Israel stops its attacks on Gaza. “The aim behind this attack, the framework within which this attack took place, and the aim behind it on Tuesday and Wednesday, was to separate between the two fronts,” Nasrallah said. “Lebanon’s front will not stop before an end to the aggression in Gaza,” Nasrallah said, speaking for the Lebanon government. Hezbollah has disproportional control over the Lebanese government. But there’s no one in the Lebanese government, other than Hezbollah members that that say Lebanon supports the resistance in Gaza. Nasrallah acts like he’s prime minister of Lebanon.
Nasrallah brought the war on Hezbollah and Lebanon by going to war against Israel, all the orders of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei. Nasrallah said no one from Israel would return to the Lebanon border region until Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ends his war in Gaza. With a ceasefire nowhere in sight, it’s doubtful the war will end anytime soon unless Hamas agrees to leave Gaza. Sinwar said recently that he’s in no hurry to cut any deal with Israel, something verified by Doha, Qatar-based billionaire Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal. Meshaal said the Hamas is winning the war, meaning that Israel hasn’t been able to pluck Sinwar out from the labyrinth of Hamas tunnels in Gaza. Nasralllah acts like Israel started the latest war when Sinwar executed the biggest atrocity against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust. Nasrallah, as part of the resistance, keeps fighting.
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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.
