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Daily Briefing: Israel Exposes the West’s Cowardice

SHADOW WAR WITH IRAN Listen:  Hezbollah’s Pagers and Walkie-Talkies Explode:  Now What?:  Honestly with Bari Weiss, Sept. 19, 2024 – On Tuesday, hundreds of encrypted pagers in Lebanon and Syria exploding at the same time. The Moment We’ll Know Lebanon Campaign Had Become an All-Out War’:  Zvika Haimovich, Israel Hayom, Sept. 23, 2024 — The […]

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Israel’s Bravery Has Exposed the Lie at the Heart of Starmer’s Foreign Policy

Alistair Heath The Telegraph, Sept. 18, 2024 “Western foreign policy is a mishmash of cowardice, delusion and contradictions.” Robbed of its moral bearings, bereft of any sense of right and wrong, incapable of distinguishing heroes from villains, the West can no longer celebrate when good triumphs over evil. Israel’s brilliantly audacious booby-trapping of thousands of […]

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Exploding Pagers Won’t Stop Hezbollah

Jonathan Spyer The Spectator, Sept. 17, 2024 “The return of residents to their northern border communities has now been defined as a war aim by Israel. Logic leads inexorably to the conclusion that only a major rearrangement of the situation north of the frontier — i.e. pushing Hezbollah’s forces away from the border line — […]

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The Hezbollah pager explosions are a textbook Israeli attack

  At the end of the 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service, the plucky spy hero is in trouble deep in an enemy base. Suddenly his tech wizard figures out that he can hack into the microchips inside the enemies’ heads and make them all explode. The bad guys all go boom. On Tuesday night, the […]

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Hezbollah Beeper Attack: Israel’s Psychological Warfare – Opinion

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Irwin J. Mansdorf Jerusalem Post, Sept. 23, 2024 “… unlike Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah faces real opposition within Lebanon – despite claiming to be Lebanese patriots. While that cover has so far allowed it to carry out the wishes and strategy of its Iranian masters, it is nevertheless the Lebanese people who may becomes Hezbollah’s […]

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Missile in the Attic: IDF Releases Photos of Hezbollah Munitions In Lebanese Homes

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TOI staff, AP and Emanuel Fabian Times of Israel, Sept. 24, 2024 “Israel has long accused Hezbollah of transforming entire communities in southern Lebanon into terror bases, with hidden rocket launchers and other infrastructure.” Israel on Monday published what it said was evidence of Hezbollah munitions being placed in homes, as it sought to pre-empt […]

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Why The Reactions to Israel’s Strikes on Hezbollah Matter

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Sept. 20, 2024 “… although times and circumstances have changed, the Jews remain the primary boogeymen of Western thought.” It was the covert operation that inspired thousands of Internet memes. The simultaneous explosion of thousands of pagers in the possession of Hezbollah operatives followed a day later by a similar mass […]

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Daily Briefing: MOSSAD PENETRATES HEZBOLLAH’S MILITARY STRUCTURES

“RED BUTTON CAPABILITY” Israel’s ‘Red Button’: Device Blasts Hit Hezbollah at Critical Moment, Officials Say:  JP staff, Jerusalem Post, Sept. 23, 2024 — The device explosions in Lebanon last week were part of Israel’s “red button” plan, designed to be activated at a critical moment for maximum impact against an adversary, current and former Israeli officials with knowledge of the pager […]

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Israel Kills Top Hezbollah Commander in Beirut Strike

Stephen Kalin, Summer Said and Anat Peled WSJ, Sept. 20, 2024 “Aqil was one of the most important figures in Hezbollah. He inherited Shukr’s role after his killing this summer, and before that maintained a low profile to avoid being targeted by Israel and the U.S.” Israel launched another major attack on Hezbollah on Friday, with a […]

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Was ‘Operation Below the Belt’ Legal? Absolutely

Elizabeth Samson Middle East Forum, Sept. 19, 2024 “Putting aside the double standards held by the international community and the reflexive critique of Israel’s actions without acquisition of facts, and accepting that humanitarian law prohibits the intentional targeting of civilians during armed conflict, Israel’s operation nevertheless complied with international law.” Many analysts heralded this week’s […]

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Israel Scored a Stunning Blow Against Hezbollah. Its Path to Victory Is Less Clear.

Michael R. Gordon and Shayndi Raice WSJ, Sept. 19, 2024 “Israel is restoring its deterrence brick by brick, operation by operation. … The message: We’ve deeply penetrated your systems and networks. We can kill any of you at any time—and will if you continue your war against us.” In a long history of audacious operations, exploding […]

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0peration Grim Beeper

Michael Doran Tablet, Sept. 19, 2024 “The great genius of the operation is that the Israelis relied on Hezbollah itself to select their targets for them. I can’t think of another case like this where the attackers just sat back and let the enemy perform a key part of their work for them.” A few […]

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