J.E. Dyer
The Optimistic Conservative, July 27, 2024
“There is in any case no such thing as a “proportionate” response to having children at a recreational park blasted into bloody pieces.”
This will be quick and focused. There is a lot else to say, but it’s more important to get these points out than to take long enough for more comprehensive coverage.
Hezbollah’s atrocious Falaq-1 rocket attack on a recreation area in the Golan Heights, where at least 12 young people ages 10-20 were killed – some blown to bits – and dozens injured, was meant to be escalatory. The simultaneous drone attempt on oil and gas infrastructure offshore is added evidence of that.
That is not to say that Israel has to escalate on any schedule of Hezbollah’s. (Israel has already mounted counterattacks by air as of this writing.) It’s to establish what Hezbollah is doing with this fresh move, and hence what the frame of mind of Hezbollah’s planners is. Iran was undoubtedly in the decision-making process; this is on Iran too.
There is no justification for anyone to try to downgrade or whitewash the vile nature of the attack, or suggest that Israel is under any obligation to pull any punches except the ones Israel may find strategically convenient.
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