Faced with a genocidal enemy, whose sole goal is the annihilation of your country, there is no possible compromise
As Smith colorfully put it, Netanyahu came to realize that “heeding Washington’s advice on the conduct of war is like taking counsel from the angel of death. Just as the US is no longer willing or able to win the wars it commits Americans to fight, the Joe Biden administration won’t let US allies win wars either.”
LET US CONSIDER what Israel has achieved since September 17, when approximately 3,000 pagers blew up in the hands or pants pockets of the Hezbollah operatives to which they had been distributed, disabling all of them in one second. A second attack on Hezbollah’s fallback communication system — walkie-talkies — eliminated many more the next day.
Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British Expeditionary Forces in Afghanistan, termed the rapid attrition of Hezbollah forces in the two weeks leading up to Nasrallah’s assassination “unprecedented.” And Professor Charles Lipson, writing in the Spectator, described the Israeli campaign against Iranian proxies as the “most dazzling combination of real-time intelligence, high technology, and precise military action in the modern era.”
Israeli intelligence has apparently penetrated everywhere in the constellation of Iranian proxies, including in Iran itself. On July 31, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was blown up in a Tehran guest house belonging the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), while in Iran to celebrate the inauguration of the new president.
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