Israel’s decision to assassinate Nasrallah, using some of the enormous bunker-busting bombs the United States has been arming it with, is beyond foolhardy. It is outright deranged. Israel has removed – and knows it has removed – a moderating influence on Hezbollah.
Israel’s action will achieve nothing apart from teaching his successor, and leaders of other groups and countries labelled as terrorist by western governments, several lessons:
That Israel, and the West standing squarely behind it, do not play by any known rules of engagement, and that their opponents must do likewise. The current restraint from Hezbollah that has been so baffling western pundits will become a thing of the past.
That Israel is not interested in compromise, only escalation, and that this is a fight to death – not just against Israel but against the West that sponsors Israel.
That Israel’s ideological extremism – its Jewish supremacism, and its endless craving for Lebensraum – must be met with even greater Shia-inspired extremism.
Decades of western terrorism in the Middle East unleashed a Sunni nihilism embodied first in al-Qaeda and then in ISIS. Now, the West, via Israel, is fomenting for the Shia resistance its own ISIS moment. The moderates in what the West dubs “terrorist organisations” have once again lost the argument. Why? Because the US imperial project known as “the West” has once again demonstrated it will not compromise. It demands full-spectrum, global dominance – nothing less.
Israel may make very short tactical gains in killing Nasrallah. But we will all soon feel the whirlwind.
Flatten Tel Aviv. Not as revenge for one man but for all men (and women, etc). They have tried to kill our shared humanity and deserve to be nuked.
Yes. Then hang all current and former IOF soldiers.
At least the ones that can be identified wearing their victims’ lingerie or playing with their toys. Also the ones that did the pro R protests and or provided jerk off snuff film material to Israelis on their telegram channels.
Oh man, you are correct… I am not exactly narrowing it down. It’s all of them.
Destabilizing and radicalizing their neighbors was always the point. It allows them to grab more land in the chaos and let’s them have some kind of justification when their enemies retaliate as they cry victim.
That Israel is not interested in compromise, only escalation, and that this is a fight to death – not just against Israel but against the West that sponsors Israel.
That Israel’s ideological extremism – its Jewish supremacism, and its endless craving for Lebensraum
I suppose those who would stand to suffer most from seeing this would be most reluctant to act but to me it’s been obvious based off the fact the leader of the zionist regime is very likely headed for prison and disgrace the moment the crisis ends that there are no off-ramps and never were. Add on that the nature of the colony is to do just this and its simply speeding up its long-term goals to exploit a crisis that they probably let happen (Oct 7) on purpose for their own ends and well the picture is pretty clear. We’re basically a year in and by the time they started antagonizing Iran it became obvious they were fishing for a larger fight to draw the US in.
So not fighting them is pointless in my opinion. Conserving strength only works if you can actually conserve it. If they start decapitating your leadership structure using unprecedented mass supply-chain interdiction terror attacks it’s time to get things into gear because they’ve declared war on you. You can’t conserve your strength against an enemy like this, you can only lie down before them while they murder all your leadership and anyone else they can and are great at identifying sadly as they are a very good hacking regime.
There are basically two choices here in light of the reality and one is to stop any antagonism of the zionist entity, stop firing rockets, stop trying to drive their settlers out, stop trying to tie up their forces in the north to help Hamas in the south and basically take off your militant clothes, bury your weapons and plan to revisit the matter in 4-5 years as otherwise you’re just lying down to be slaughtered which makes them stronger while you grow weaker. The other is to acknowledge the reality, acknowledge you’re in a life or death struggle, that by attacking them as they engage in a genocide and by virtue of them striking back and decapitating your leadership in a mass terrorist attack and to fully commit. To hunker down, to distribute command structures, to not wait for them but go on the offensive against them and their backers.
Those are the only two logical choices. I can see why Hassan Nasrallah didn’t move quickly, he struck me as a thoughtful man. I really can. He had such responsibility but the pager attack should have shown that they were not going to stop or back down or negotiate, that they had good intelligence, that they’d penetrated everything, that they probably knew everything including locations of command bunkers and that it was a now or never. At that point they’d tried to kill him and he and those around him couldn’t do enough to keep him alive from their second attack even knowing it was imminent. This is the tactical reality they exist in. But Nasrallah was a good man, a man who didn’t want to bring more bloodshed. And for it he was killed in a bunker that wasn’t enough to protect him, along with allegedly we are now learning an Iranian official.
I am deeply suspicious that the Iranian official led the zionists to where Nasrallah was, unwittingly of course. But it does raise an interesting if disturbing thought and that is what if there are those highly placed in the Iranian government who want to conspire with the zionist entity to remove their conservative and hard-liners. To sue for a secret peace with the entity as well as their backers by making sure all those who would get in the way of them lying down before the west would be out of the picture beforehand. There is no evidence for this as of yet and we shouldn’t really seriously consider it, but the fact is the zionists do have an incredible penetration of Iran on an intelligence level as well as that of the rest of the resistance and it’s a damn big problem.
People talk of the zionist entity’s fall being imminent, to the contrary I think they’ve not been stronger in some time. They’re butchering their enemies while those enemies stay their hand because the US is near at hand glaring all the while also lying and claiming peace will come soon to keep their hands stayed. Yes it might be the beginning of a shift of public opinion in the west against them but they could care less. And it is a problem for the latter end of this decade or next. The zionist public opinion apparatus is so strong and entrenched I wouldn’t be shocked that once the genocide is over their approval numbers go up and there’s never a growing movement in the west to boycott, divest, and sanction them. The far right will recruit from those disillusioned by this, spread actual anti-semitism which the zionists will be gleeful to see. It’s all going better to plan than it has in a long while for them. Public sentiment against them doesn’t matter, it just pulls their people together more cohesively and they see it as a tool to recruit more Jews from abroad to them.
not wait for them but go on the offensive against them and their backers.
This really is the moment we’re in. Imperialism is showing its hand. Do we just wait and hope it burns itself out, or collectively fight the final battle?
