Robert Williams, Gatestone Institute, 10/22/24
- [T]he West’s political “elites” condemned Israel for defending itself by targeting Hezbollah’s leadership.
- There was no mention of international law for Hezbollah’s unprovoked, year-long attacks: bombardments of missiles and attack drones every day at a country smaller than New Jersey.
- EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell lamented Israel’s continued successful attempts at destroying one of Iran’s proxy armies.
- When Israel took out Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, one of the world’s most dangerous arch-terrorists, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres could barely hold back his disappointment, counterfactually calling Hezbollah’s unprovoked war against Israel and the IDF’s response a “cycle of violence.”
- Only Argentina’s President Javier Milei displayed a reaction fitting the removal of a terrorist mass murderer…
- Israel, as has been noted, is doing the entire world an enormous service by taking out Hezbollah.
- Iran, just since October 2023, through its militias in Syria and Iraq, has launched more than 160 attacks on the US forces in the Middle East.
- [W]hen Israel killed Ibrahim Aqil, the mastermind of the 1983 attacks and a member of Hezbollah’s Jihad Council, its highest military body, the US could not even bring itself to thank its ally.
- The world’s political elites apparently cannot forgive Israel for seeking to defend itself, and rid the world of terrorists working to destroy both America and Western civilization. Could these elites, wittingly or not, be working towards the same result?
It took the world community nearly a year to condemn the war in Lebanon, but they got the wrong mark. Instead of condemning Hezbollah, the world’s largest Iranian proxy terrorist army, with an estimated 40,000 – 50,000 fighters, for starting a year-long war on October 8, 2023 in support of the terrorist organization Hamas, the West’s political “elites” condemned Israel for defending itself by targeting Hezbollah’s leadership.
The UN Security Council called an emergency session on September 20, during which UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told ambassadors that he was “appalled by the breadth and impact” of the attacks on Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies.
He was joined by Slovenian ambassador Samuel Žbogar – Slovenia held the Security Council presidency – who blamed Israel for creating destabilization and “terror” with its precision targeting of Hezbollah terrorists. Because nothing spells stability and non-terror more than Hezbollah launching “8,000 rockets at Israel, killing 46 Israelis, injuring 294 and displacing 60,000 civilians who are still homeless,” and creating “a major environmental disaster, with over 800 fires breaking out as a result of missiles that have damaged over 50,000 dunams [12,355 acres] of forest land.”
“It [Israel] has created a climate of terror,” Žbogar said. “We are stepping in a dangerous new territory and as new technology is being used and developed, we underline the need to respect the existing legal obligations.”
The Slovenian even tried to cite international law and call for a full investigation of the pager and walkie-talkies attacks. “[T]he international law is clear: use of booby traps is prohibited,” and calling for a full investigation of the pager and walkie-talkies attacks. “Those who ordered and carried out such an attack must be brought to justice,” he said.
There was no mention of international law for Hezbollah’s unprovoked, year-long attacks: bombardments of missiles and attack drones every day at a country smaller than New Jersey.
Israel, in other words, must supposedly be brought before a world court for having the gall to defend its civilians from a terrorist organization and its estimated150,000 rockets, missiles and drones, which it lobbed indiscriminately against both Jews and Arabs in Israel.
Hezbollah terrorists, evidently, merit special UN concern and protection. In fact, there is recent precedent for it.
More than 100 October 7 terror victims filed a case at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and several of its high-standing officials. The lawsuit charges that UNRWA led a long-standing money-laundering operation to the financial benefit of Hamas. The UN, however, has refused to lift the immunity of its UNRWA employees, at least nine of whom actually participated in the Hamas October 7 massacre during which they murdered more than 1,200 innocent people, including many that they raped, mutilated and burned alive, and took 251 people hostage.
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