Seven civilians were murdered in Israel today. Hezbullah proves that they’ve got the terrorist two-step down perfectly. They rained dozens of rockets on northern Israel, then paused. When the residents came out to survey the damage, they sent another barrage–which killed three people on their balconies. Five civilians were critically injured; the death toll may rise.
I await the world’s criticism of Hezbullah. I await the condemnations of the military attack on civilian areas. I await the world’s use of the word “massacre” to describe the death of seven Israeli civilians on Tisha b’Av, the Ninth of Av, one of the most mournful holidays of the year.
No, not really. I expect no condemnation at all from Kofi Annan, nor from the rest of the UN/EU crowd. They do not care about dead Jews. The world has proven this, time and time again.
Missiles are the Hezbullah’s main strength. The cowards are afraid to face the IDF in straightforward combat. This so-called “A-Team,” the so-called “best-armed, best-trained” anti-Israel force is nothing but a bunch of untrained terrorists who have rocket and missile launchers. Got a clue for you: I can do a hell of a lot of damage on a group of soldiers if you teach me how to use a missile launcher, and then give me a large supplies of missile and the high ground.
The term “antitank” is misleading; the missiles were originally designed to be used against tanks, but the IDF’s Merkava tanks and upgraded armored fighting vehicles are capable of withstanding most missiles in Hizbullah’s arsenal. But Hizbullah isn’t using them only against tanks. The range of these missiles – up to three kilometers – and the force of their explosive charges make them ideal for attacking groups of soldiers and IDF positions from afar.
Over the last two weeks, the tactic used by many of the Hizbullah teams has been to avoid close-range combat, where IDF soldiers’ high level of training gives them the upper hand. Instead, the Hizbullah men have been moving to positions high above villages and continuing to fire missiles at the IDF forces. Large stores of missiles were prepared in the hills in advance, for this eventuality.
[…] Col. Ofek Buchris, a former Golani battalion commander and the officer now in charge of offensive operations on the northern front, said this week, “Hizbullah aren’t as good soldiers as people have been saying, they don’t have good combat skills. In shooting battles, we beat them every time. What they do have is good antitank capabilities.
“They were trained for this especially by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. For intents and purposes, Hizbullah is Iran’s advance division here.”
Israel’s refusal to use the same tactics against Hezbullah—for fear of killing civilians—results in the deaths of Israel soldiers and civilians.
STFU, Kofi Annan. STFU, EU. STFU, Jimmy Carter. The humanitarians are the ones being fired on by Hezbullah.
And please: STFU, morons who think that Hezbullah has the strength to beat the IDF. If they had, you’d see pitched battles between two armies. Hezbullah is nothing more than a better-armed group of terrorists than Hamas or Al-Aqsa or Islamic Jihad. They’re what you get when you add Iranian petrodollars and Syrian support to the Jew-hatred that suffuses the Middle East.
Hezbullah can’t win this fight, and Hezbullah won’t win this fight—even though the world is trying to stack the deck against Israel. It is a war of existential proportions. Let us not pretend otherwise.
I know whose side I’m on.
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