As we brace for wider war in the Middle East, Congress is on vacation, the president is non compos mentis, and Hezbollah is firing rockets at northern Israel — 30 of them early on Monday according to several reports.
The projectiles caused no casualties. As we’ll discuss, however, a major objective of Iran-sponsored Hezbollah’s cross-border attacks is, in effect, to contract the territory within national boundaries over which Israel is sovereign. A significant portion of the population in the north has been evacuated since October 7, when Hamas began the latest round of intense war. (Note: The exterminationist jihad against Israel started before the modern Jewish state’s 1948 establishment and never actually stops; the jihadists just take occasional strategic pauses — which progressive Western governments, whether out of cynicism or cluelessness, applaud as “triumphs of diplomacy.”) At the moment, Hamas is under a grinding siege by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza. The IDF may eradicate Hamas as an effective fighting force in a few more weeks if the Biden-Harris administration stops impeding it. (Of course, eradicating Hamas would not end the sharia-supremacist threat to Israel.) Yet, marshaled on Lebanon’s southern border, Hezbollah has no difficulty launching attacks that serve jihadist objectives even if they don’t drive a surge in the casualty count (and are thus less likely to “escalate” the conflict, to borrow the Biden-Harris obsession).
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