LOS ANGELES.–Exposed as a fraudulent terror organization, Hezbollah’s 64-year-old Supreme Leader Hassan Nasrallah showed he’s all bluster, cannot compete on the same level as Israeli Defense Forces [IDF]. In another pinpoint strike at a residential building in Beirut today, Israel killed Nasrallah’s second-in-command 62-year-old Ibrahim Aqil, identified as a key figure of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 U.S. marines. Aqil had a $7 million dollar Pentagon price on his head, but unable to liquidate the mass killer for the last 41 years. Following the wake of the July 31 targeted bombing of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, Nasrallah should take notice that he could be next. Nasrallah, on orders from Iran, has been at war with Israel since Oct. 7, 2023, the day Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar ordered Hamas terrorists to massacre 1,200 Israelis and others, taking another 251 hostages.
Nasrallah acts like an obedient puppet for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who, following 74-year-old Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring war on Hamas, thought he could start indiscriminately firing rockets into Israel. With the recent exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, Hezbollah finds itself badly out matched by Israel, despite all of Nasrallah’s empty threats of a wider war. When the Ayatollah told the late billionaire Hamas leader in exile Ismail Haniyeh that he was on his own in his war with Israel, it told the whole story about Hamas. Iran wants no part of direct conflict with Israel, knowing the consequences to going to war with the Jewish State. Khamenei knows that Netanyahu doesn’t fool around when it comes to threats against Israel. However Hamas and Hezbollah serve as Iran’s proxies, they don’t compete with the IDF.
Reports of the latest Beirut missile strike indicate that several other Hezbollah commanders were also killed in the strike, sending a message to Nasrallah to back off his current war with Israel. Nasrallah keeps saving face saying he would retaliate against Israel, knowing that Nasrallah is dangerously close to getting taken out himself. Hamas’s new leader in exile fellow Doha, Qatar based billionaire 68-year-old Khaled Mesahaal, said Hamas was winning its war with Israel because Siwar hasn’t surrendered or been killed. Gaza has been reduced to ruins something Meshaal says in necessary for Palestinians to recall the martyrdom for Palestine Liberation. Since 1948, all Arab states, including Palestinians, have lost every conflict with Israel, keeping Palestinian people living in abject poverty with the phony promise of one day conquering Israel and reclaiming their land.
Corrupt Palestinian leaders like Meshaal use Gaza’s donor cash to enrich themselves at the expense of ordinary citizens, living in sordid conditions without adequate electricity and running war. Sinwar hides in his military tunnels deep underneath the Gaza Strip to show he can survive in his bunker the Israeli onslaught, insisting it shows Hamas is winning the war. What it shows is that Hamas is willing to sacrifice every living Palestinian to make them martyrs for the fake cause of Palestine Liberation. When Arabs lived in the Holy Land under Ottoman and British rule for over 500 years, they never cried occupation or called for liberation. Only when the Jews received the British Mandate of Palestine in 1948 did Palestinians start their rebellion. Eighty years later they live in the Gaza Strip because Israel ceded them the once Egyptian territory in 2005.
Without receiving Israeli spoils from the 1967 Six Day War, Palestinians would have no territory at all in the Holy Land. Israel annexed Egypt’s Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Jordan’s West Bank and Syria’s Golan Heights as spoils of the Six Day War. Palestinians, once led by Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO] Chairman Yasser Arafat, demanded that Israel return to the pre-1967 borders in exchange for peace. But once Israel gave Palestinians Gaza and the West Bank, it was never enough, always asking for Israel to cede more territory. When it comes to Hamas and Hezboallh, they’ve been rightfully humbled by Israel for waging war. Netanyahu leaves no ambiguity about what happens to any state or terror group that opts for war against Israel. Nasrallah has not yet shown signs of ending his aggression against Israel, continuing to follow the Ayatollah’s orders.
Nasrallah has very little left of his upper command structure with the obvious loss of Shukr and now Aqil, both liquidated because of Nasrallah’s brazen attacks on Israel. “The Hezbollah commanders we eliminated today had been planning their Oct. 7 on the northern border for years,:” said Israeli Army Chief Gen. Herzi Halevi. “We reached them, and we will reach anyone who threatens the security of Israel’s citizens,” serving notice to Nasrallah to escalate at his own peril. Nasrallah doesn’t have much left of his commander structure, knowing that if he pushes Netanyahu too far things could get much worse for Hezbollah. Biden seems completely out-of-the-loop while the war rages in northern Israel. Biden pushed for a ceasefire deal with Hamas know the terror group cannot be trusted to negotiate in good faith. As Meshaal said about Sinwar, he’s perfectly OK to hold out in Hamas’s military tunnels, letting Israel decimate his forces living on the surface.
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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.
