War in the north
Israel is firm in its resolve to make its north safe again, so displaced residents can return to their homes without constant barrages of Hezbollah missiles and rockets from Lebanon.
The next phase of Israel’s defensive strategy against Iran’s so-called axis of resistance, which seeks to strangulate the Jewish State by means of an arc of aggressive proxy militias, has begun.
Israel is firm in its resolve to make its north safe again, so displaced residents can return to their homes without constant barrages of Hezbollah missiles and rockets from Lebanon.
Last week’s spectacular routs of Hezbollah’s networks through exploding pagers and two-radio radios are widely attributed to Israel, and set the stage for the grim task ahead: clearing offensive missiles and rockets from Hezbollah’s strongholds.
As with Hamas, Hezbollah embed themselves amongst the civilian population they claim to champion, but which in reality they are more than willing to use as human shields for propaganda value in the western media — homes and garages have been stacked with offensive weaponry.
The world’s news channels, as usual, are relaying dubious statistics – supplied by compromised authorities in Lebanon – of civilian deaths, inflated, and based on vague definitions of who is a civilian.
As we prepare to commemorate the first anniversary of the barbaric invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists, the first Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur of the war will be a testing time, not just for Israelis but for Jews around the world.
We’ll reflect on the events of October 7, 2023 – the worst bloodletting of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, with 1200 murdered and more than 250 abducted to Gaza, of which some 100 still missing.
This new chapter of the war can be expected to trigger more unrest in Australia – from hardcore elements deeply antagonistic to Israel and to Jews, and from what StandWithUs International Senior Educator Charlotte Korchak calls the “wildly uninformed”.
Israel’s relations with Lebanon, which last exploded into large-scale warfare in 2006, have never been resolved. UN resolution 1701, which was supposed to end hostilities, has never been fully implemented because Hezbollah has not honoured its requirement to withdraw its armed groups from southern Lebanon. On October 8, hours after the Hamas attacks, Hezbollah began pounding Israel.
As with the Gaza campaign, Israel has a fundamental right to protect all its borders. Commentators, demonstrators and governments that don’t see this right as an existential, sovereign priority are deeply misguided.
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