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OPINION

Just Doing the World a Favor

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The nation of Israel is unleashing hell onto the terrorist group Hezbollah inside the neighboring nation of Lebanon, first with exploding pagers killing and wounding a large number of Hezbollah terrorists, as well as effectively castrating many of those same terrorists who carried the pagers in their front pockets, thus preventing them from breeding any future little terrorists. The exploding pagers were quickly followed by exploding walkie talkies that turned right-handed Hezbollah terrorists into left-handed terrorists, and vice versa, and also resulted in quite a few more taking ‘dirt naps’.

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Since the exploding pagers and walkie talkies, Israel has been conducting aerial attacks on Hezbollah terrorist sites throughout Lebanon. From the videos showing multiple secondary explosions of targets hit by the Israelis it’s apparent that Hezbollah continues to conceal missiles and explosives in private residences, schools, and in hospitals. Hezbollah, as with Hamas, is nothing more than an Iranian proxy committing acts of terrorism on behalf of Iran, and they routinely use human shields for their terrorist activities since they place no value on human life.  Unlike Israel and all other civilized nations.

The Islamic Republic of Iran who controls Hezbollah and Hams, as well as the Houthis in Yemen, has been at war with the United States and Israel since 1979.  A one-sided war from the standpoint of the United States failing to really recognize the Iranian threat, or to take real steps to address it. Mostly using sanctions that come and go depending on which political party is in power in Washington, and that really have no effect on the terrorist regime running Iran anyway. Only the Iranian people suffer economic hardship and deprivation as a result of the sanctions.  The regime leadership lives fat and happy and continues its’ terrorist support by simply moving money around.

To Israel’s credit they have traded punches with the Iranian proxies repeatedly over the years, and have most recently even extended their reach all the way to Tehran when they killed the Hamas leader Isnmail Haniyeh back in July of this year. A stroke of genius that most certainly got the attention of the Iranian leadership.

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The U.S. has instead experienced repeated attacks from the Iranian proxies, but has yet to show the intestinal fortitude necessary to really strike back and send Iran the message that we’ve had enough. The one exception was during the Trump Administration when then President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead to kill Qasim Soleimani, head of the Iranian Quds Force.  The Iranian leadership learned quickly that as the saying goes, “there’s a new sheriff in town”, and President Trump was not going to play by Iran’s rules.

The nation of Israel has been in a life and death struggle for survival since its very birth as a nation. Surrounded by enemies on all sides Israel has had to remain strong and vigilant for decades. But during the Trump Administration a genuine peace in that very volatile region of the world was nearly at hand with the signing of the Abraham Accords.  Bringing peace and diplomatic relations between Israel and most of its Arab neighbors.  Even Saudi Arabia was near to joining the agreement.  Which was something that Iran could not tolerate, and so they quickly went to work to try to undermine the effort.

After the horrific terrorist attack that occurred on October 7, 2023, Israel had no choice but to invade Gaza in force and seek out the Iranian proxy Hamas who was responsible. Hamas has been a festering sore for way too long, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took decisive action to once and for all rid Israel of this threat. Netanyahu also understood and accepted that the people of Israel would likely be put at risk from retaliatory strikes from Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon next door. Prime Minister Netanyahu displayed true leadership in making the decision to take the steps he has taken to protect Israel and defeat the evil of Hamas and Hezbollah, and their benefactor Iran.

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Unlike those now running our country who have repeatedly called for a cease fire in Gaza, when instead they should have forcefully come out in support of Israel and offered whatever weapons, munitions, and intelligence resources that we have to help Israel in this most desperate struggle.

By confronting Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran, Israel is doing the entire world a favor.  America should be standing right by their side as they confront the evil and existential threat to world peace that is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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