Nasrallah’s Elimination, Plus Damage to Hezbollah’s Leadership and Operational Capabilities, Marks a Potential Turning Point in the Middle East

Yossi Kupperwasser | MEF | October 7, 2024

At the strategic level, Hassan Nasrallah’s elimination and the series of other actions represent the ultimate expression of the change in the war’s trend.  Shutterstock

The elimination of Hassan Nasrallah, coupled with the damage to Hezbollah’s leadership structure and operational capabilities, marks a potential turning point in the Middle East. The IDF’s ground operation in southern Lebanon, the second attack in Yemen, and Israel’s success in withstanding two massive Iranian missile attacks demonstrate Israel’s brilliant intelligence and operational achievements. These events shake the entire Middle East and create potential for fundamental change. The nature and intensity of this change will depend significantly on Israel’s actions, as well as on United States and Iranian policies.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | October 7, 2024, bit.ly/3BtliBu

Sympathizing with a screensaver mentality amounts to ceding reality to an imaginary, pleasant, sometimes hallucinating alternate reality. The October 7 horrific Islamic terrorism possesses the potential of moving the mouse, hitting a key and disparaging a screensaver-like self-defeating Western policy.

For example:

1. The October 7 massacre – which was guided and financed largely by Iran’s Ayatollahs, who have also guided Hezbollah’s and the Houthis’ offensive against Israel, the US and other Western countries – should have removed the screensaver mentality of the diplomatic option toward Iran’s Ayatollahs for the following reasons:

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After Tuesday’s missile attack, he is already telling Israel the targets it can’t hit in self-defense.

WSJ, OPINION Oct. 2, 2024 5:57 pm

The day after U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called for a diplomatic solution between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the U.N. General Assembly to “set the record straight” regarding some speakers’ “lies and slanders.”

Rabbi Jacob Herzog tweeted the following:

The era of the sickness of leaders. What do you think is the illness of President Sisi? Could it be AIDS, for example? Please provide clarification.

The King of Jordan is living his last 36 months on earth.

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Start at 18min 54sec for 17min video.

“The first person to greet him was Ben Shapiro, the renowned conservative political pundit… Trump met with Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Executive Vice President of American Friends of Lubavitch-Chabad in Washington, DC.”

Trump Visits the Rebbe’s Ohel in New York: https://t.co/Yol0TtztE6 https://t.co/whxiSPHJRy pic.twitter.com/thRksHd7BD

— ????? (@drandelson) October 7, 2024

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What really happened then and what is really happening now.

by Daniel Greenfield | October 7, 2024

On Oct 7, 2023, thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel. Their mission was to wipe out the Jewish population in the nearby towns, secure them and use them as forward operating bases for the next phase of the war. While the atrocities they committed in that initial assault, entire families burned alive in their homes, women raped and kidnapped, and babies killed, made it look like a terrorist attack on a large scale, Oct 7 had not been meant as a hit and run operation.

Hamas had risked too much and put too many men in the field for it to be anything other than an invasion. Its plans to continue advancing into Israel appear unrealistic only out of context.

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Peloni:  Just say NO!  Israel faces an existential threat, to which the US is offering to help Israel, but only if Israel agrees to maintain that existential threat to grow ever more exitential into the future.  The answer must be NO, and for the US to even suggest such a proposal makes clear with whom their true regional alliance lies.

According to Israeli Public Broadcasting; the United States has offered Israel an Extensive Package which includes International Political-Backing and additional Militray Assistance, if they decide against Attacking certain Targets inside of Iran, likely to include Nuclear Sites.

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 6, 2024

By David Horowitz | Am Thinker | October 3, 2024

Image via Picryl.

In a formal introduction of his newly chosen Cabinet, President Biden proudly declared: “This is the first [time] in American history that the cabinet looks like America.”  Scrutinizing the actual appointments and not just the sex, skin color, and ethnic origins of the Biden team reveals a group that may look like America but doesn’t think like America.  In fact, it is a team whose outlook is transparently anti-American.

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By Robert Williams, GATESTONE  •  October 7, 2024

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian looks on from the dais, as a Fattah ballistic missile is displayed during at a military parade in Tehran on September 21, 2024. Fattah missiles were using in Iran’s October 1 attack on Israel. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

• “Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations.” — United Nations Charter, Article 51.
• On October 1, 2024, Iran directly attacked Israel for the second time in six months, launching at least 180 ballistic missiles at Israeli towns cities and towns and sending millions of Israelis into bomb shelters. Iran simply did what it has been doing for decades: trying to obliterate Israel.

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T. Belman. It is a misnomer to call this “aid”. It is in reality an investment that pays huge dividends to the US.

By AP   Oct 7, 2024

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The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released on the anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on Israel.

An additional $4.86 billion has gone into stepped-up US military operations in the region since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, researchers say in findings first provided to The Associated Press. That includes the costs of a Navy-led campaign to quell strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, who claim to be carrying them out in solidarity with the fellow Iranian-backed terror group Hamas.

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Francisco Gil-White | The Management of Reality | Aug 13, 2024

• Our Western bosses have caused outrageous suffering and death for millions of people.
• Is that stupidity?
• Or is it evil?
• What kind of system are we in?

In a recent podcast (which I highly recommend) Bret Weinstein asks this question: Should we model the bosses as evil psychopaths?

People usually don’t ask this question; they just assume the bosses are roughly like their own selves: normal. Normies. To understand the bosses they ask: ‘In their shoes, what would I want? What would I do?’

But this gives very bad predictions if the bosses are sociopaths or psychopaths, says Weinstein, because in that case you are nothing like them.

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