Sechster Nahostkrieg

[Quintus Fabius]

300 Tote aufwärts bei diesem Enthauptungsschlag:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024...ef58cf0000

Israel estimates that Nasrallah was at the Hezbollah headquarters, the site of the strike, during the attack, and two other senior Hezbollah commanders were killed. According to initial estimates from Israeli defense officials, some 300 people were killed in the strike.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-822101

First and foremost, the move signals a "change in the rules of engagement" in the fight against the so-called axis of evil. The assassination attempt, whose success remains unconfirmed, sends a clear message of Israeli resolve and boldness to the entire region, particularly Iran.

This is undoubtedly a regionally destabilizing event.

Anscheinend haben sich auch Familienangehörige von Nasrallah gleich mitvernichtet:

https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-822125

Sollte ausgerechnet die Hisbollah jetzt derart sang- und klanglos untergehen ? Stückweise vernichtet ohne ernsthafte Gegenwehr ?! Ein erstaunliches Geschehen.
Jetzt wäre endgültig der letzte Punkt erreicht wo die Hisbollah absolut alles abfeuern muss was sie hat.

https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-foru...ted-states

An Israeli airstrike on a Hezbollah bunker reportedly has killed Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. If true, his death would cap an impressive ten-day campaign that began with the simultaneous detonation of Hezbollah pagers, continued to take out senior military leaders, and now has decapitated the organization itself.

Diplomats and human rights activists might hand wring, but what Israel did was not only right and wise, but should also be a lesson for a new generation of U.S. and European policymakers.

There is a tendency among diplomats either to exaggerate the benefits of dialogue or to declare its inevitability. In 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for example, spoke about the need to talk with the Taliban. “The starting premise is you don’t make peace with your friends,” she remarked at a conference in London. “You have to be willing to engage with your enemies….”

She was wrong. Some enemies are so odious, absolute defeat must be the goal. That was the driving belief during World War II, for example, in both the European and Pacific theaters. It was the right decision.

Diplomacy and compromise empowered Hezbollah and Hamas. They also empowered the Taliban and North Korea to the tune of billions of dollars and the Islamic Republic of Iran to an exponentially larger amount. Rather than continue such engagement, the United States should map out its opponents command-and-control and enemy regimes’ vulnerabilities and exploit them with a goal of bringing each regime to its knees.

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demonstrated, terrorist groups and radical ideologies need not be permanent fixtures on the world stage; rather, Western leaders should view them as enemies to eliminate.