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Hezbollah Head Honcho, Hassan Nasrallah, is History
Oh happy day! Hezbollah terrorist honcho, Hassan Nasrallah, is dead in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. Let all the peoples of the Earth rejoice! Except the Islamic world, of course, which will wallow in its misery and self-pity as it continues to stupidly blame the tiny state of Israel for all its problems.
And one can’t help but wonder with delicious anticipation how many hours or days are left for Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, who masterminded the depraved and evil October 7th massacre of peaceful Israeli Jews. He was declared by Israel a “dead man walking” rather soon after he stupidly provoked what Israel considers an existential war. Is there any hole deep enough for him to hide in for long? Seems unlikely.
Anyway, it was only just the other day that the depraved, foolish and cowardly “leaders” of Western countries — like the Biden administration, to our great shame — were calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Why? So that Hezbollah, which was being absolutely pounded by Israel, would have time to regroup and rearm and survive to fight another day. Why would Western leaders want that? Because in their abject depravity and foolishness, they believe Israel is at fault.
Tiny Israel, about the size of New Jersey, the only Jewish state on Earth, home of the world’s most historically beleaguered people for thousands of years, which culminated in an unspeakable holocaust, and which is relentlessly attacked every day of its existence . . . And the depraved Western “leaders” endlessly call for ceasefires and a “two-state solution,” one state of which would be led by a gang of genocidal thugs whose only goal in life is the annihilation of the other state.
These current Western “leaders” are some of the greatest fools in the history of the world. They are the ultimate useful idiots of evil. They won’t even defend their own civilization — the greatest in history by any objective standard — and instead encourage the overrunning of it by incompatible and destructive cultures, and all the while ceaselessly apologizing to the incoming hordes who have absolutely no clue how to create decent and prosperous societies of their own and instead come to take advantage of ours.
But getting back to Hassan Nasrallah . . .
The now deceased terror chief, who worshipped death the way most of us breathe, had basically been in hiding for his life since he fomented a war with Israel in 2006. In the meantime, Hezbollah busily stockpiled tens of thousands of rockets and missiles to use against Israel at opportune moments over the years, especially since October 8, 2023, piggybacking on Hamas’ evil attack, and continuing every day since.
And as the incoming barrage increased, requiring the continued unacceptable dislocation of Israeli citizens in the north, Israel got serious and unleashed the most awesome and unexpected campaign ever against terror — call it a “terror troll” — emasculating terrorists with exploding pagers and walkie talkies. Absolutely glorious! They must have been afraid of their own shadows after that. And then Israel followed that up with perhaps its most intense bombing campaign ever, absolutely decimating Hezbollah leadership and destroying weapons stockpiles and rocket launchers.
And then, they finally got Nasrallah. His time had run out.
And one of the sweetest things about this is that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu approved the airstrike from his New York City hotel room right before addressing the gang of depraved, anti-Semitic reprobates that fill most of the seats at the United Nations General Assembly.
Here’s part of an official statement from Hezbollah: “His eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general, had joined his fellow great martyrs whom he had led for 30 years from one victory to another.”
Blah, blah, whatever. That’s all any of these guys are good for: martyrdom. Which is to say, they are good for absolutely nothing on Earth.
And back in Iran, which funds all the terror against Israel, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, since hearing about Nasrallah’s demise, is said to have been “transferred to a secure location inside the country with heightened security measures in place.” Again, so sweet!
And even as the Ayatollah hides in fear for his life, he puts out statements blathering about revenge and saying stupid things like “the Zionist criminals know that they are far too insignificant to cause any major damage to the strong structure of Hezbollah in Lebanon.” Seriously, dude? Those Hezbollah guys can’t even accept a page now without fearing getting their balls blown off. Shut up, already!
When it comes to Israel and its existential fight, it looks like everything is on the table now and no terrorist is safe, not even Ayatollah Khamenei. What’s next? A hit on Iran’s nuclear program? Stay tuned.
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And it seems his successor quickly assumed room temperature as well.
The ‘tollahs must be thinking: $20+ billion for that?!?!
Wow, I missed that. It just gets better!
Beautifully put! You absolutely nailed every point, Greg Strange. No doubt that Sinwar dude has 100’s of millions of stolen dollars. But he will have to live in the shadows with his money and his hatred. The Israelis are very patient. One day, when least expected, BOOM! See ya later martyr gater.
“When it comes to Israel and its existential fight, it looks like everything is on the table….”
It’s as if this generation of Muslims has not heard of the Munich massacre and how Israel remembered those murdered.
I am in awe of Netanyahu’s message to the rest of the West: no matter what you do to me, Israel will defend itself.
Great to see the wicked and deranged, who mourn the death of this ogre – or mutter weasel words about “de-escalation” – out themselves.
Would be nice to have a government in the States that was as dedicated to defending its own citizens.
It’s not just the Israelis partying. Plenty of vids of Sunni Muslims in Syria and elsewhere, who have been oppressed by or with the help of Hezbollah, doing the happy dance. And some Iranian expats as well.
It looks to me like Israel is, without saying as much, pursuing the strategy known as ‘defeat in detail‘ so far as Iran and its minions go. It looks like the West is too self-neutered to join in, but it wouldn’t be surprising if Israel picks up some de facto allies in the area if things go the way I guess.
Including those treated by the media as Mideast policy experts:
https://www.jns.org/hadid-blasts-adidas-over-insensitive-campaign-says-she-was-unaware-of-munich-massacre/
Sort of in the vein of “austere, religious scholar”. Idiots.
My favourite was:
Aspiring artist, animal lover and talented orator, Adolf Hitler, dead at 56.
Obama refused to offer even token support to the democratic movement in Iran. Obama set a “red line” on chemical weapons by (Iran-supported) Assad regime then pretended he never did annd instead watched the civil war explode with 500,000 dead with a half-assed response. Obama and Biden pretended to oppose an Iran nuke in their rush to hand regional hegemony to what may be the world’s most dangerous regime. Iran puppets slaughter civilians all over the region and attack international shipping with impunity. Obama and his acolytes are responsible for thousands of deaths by encouraging and protecting Iranian malfeasance. Hezbollah should never have been this much of a threat. Killing that puke does not even bring us close to where we should be.
Why it’s almost as if Obama and his doltish follower Biden have a vested interest in world wide civic disruption weakening native democratic progress accompanied by ended American sovereignty.
If Obama was behind Biden and Harris, I wonder, who is behind Obama?
Those older and smarter and powerful enough to recognize a willing and useful morally bankrupt man and able to see through a long-ish project. I don’t know who was ahead of and included Valerie Jarrett (who is not much older than he,) but she’s one of my likely links in the chain. Someone within the Marxist network that knew Obama’s mother and Davis and the Chicago crowd. I think Obama would not willingly have picked Biden – everyone knew he was a mean racist dope – but there didn’t seem a long line to be #2 to Barack and also just do what they were told. Pure speculation all on my part.
Maybe there was more to it than Biden just providing some “gravitas” to newcomer Obama since Biden had been (totally wrong about everything) in government for decades already. But the “gravitas” thing seemed to be enough.
I don’t see any gravitas, but I do see someone known in hockey circles as an enforcer. Biden was old certainly but hardly serious. Golly he’s a foul guy.
Apparently, back then, compared to Obama, FJB had “gravitas.”
Obama, as a contemptuous racist–recall his remarks about his “typical” white grandmother–saw Biden as the prototypical white guy who would presumably assuage the concerns about a black nominee with a weird name and lefty tendencies. I doubt the power brokers/ Davos money men would have promoted the Biden VP pick.
I don’t wonder.
And Harris has some of that un-American background that Obama had – grew up elsewhere with foreign parents, foreign ideology, upbringing in another country…
Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s Iranian-born Rasputin.
Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s Iranian-born Rasputin.
You think it stops there? Nobody controls HER?
I doubt that even Valerie Jarrett could get Obama/Biden/Harris to get cross-threaded with the administrative state. If anyone could, maybe she could, but the administrative state rules. Remember the slogan: Government of the administrative state, by the administrative state, and for the administrative state.
I am thrilled for you.