More than 550 people, including several Hezbollah commanders, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon since Monday morning. This should be seen in the context of the multi-front hostility launched by West Asian extremists against the Jewish state since October 7 last year. Hezbollah has retaliated by firing hundreds of rockets, including a missile at Tel Aviv. The region is now on the verge of a full-blown war. However, nobody wants this. Israel fears huge loss of life and property in its population centers. Hezbollah fears the destruction of Lebanon. Iran is arming its proxies for another purpose. Iran wants to prevent Israel from attacking its nuclear project. At the same time, the US is cautious about a dangerous conflict in West Asia, given its past experiences.
Israel steps up attacks in Lebanon
Over the past week, Israel has been intensifying its campaign against Lebanon. Gaza must now focus on preventing the resurgence of Hamas so that Israeli forces can advance north. For a year, Hezbollah waged a war of hostility that forced 60,000 Israelis to evacuate their homes, a price the terrorist organization could easily pay. Israel is now responding aggressively, killing Hezbollah commanders and fighters, as well as targeting its leaders, in order to reduce threats and facilitate the restoration of life in northern Israel, with or without an invasion of southern Lebanon.
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nobody wants war
The multi-front confrontation is turning into a war that no side wants to be involved in. The instigators of this war are Hamas and Islamic Jihad from Gaza, their staunch supporters in the West Bank, Hezbollah from Lebanon, the Houthis from Yemen, Shia militias from Syria and Iraq, and regional power Iran which provides them with arms and funds. All of them speak proudly about the destruction of the Jewish state and its people. Their issue is not limited to just occupation or alleged abuses, but to the very existence of Israel.
How are fundamentalists spreading hatred?
Because Iran and its allies are well aware of Israel's military strength, they have taken the war beyond the conventional battlefield. They spread hatred against Israeli civilians directly in the minds of their people. By placing their rockets and weapons in schools, hospitals, mosques and nurseries, they give Israel a choice – either join in the killing of Israeli children, or cause heavy loss of life on the Arab side and disable their war machine.
Attempts to tarnish Israel's image
These often pretended that they were willing to sacrifice their citizens so that Israel would be embarrassed, criticized and prevented by its Western allies from responding effectively to radical Arab aggression. This strategy worked to some extent, when the media, international organizations as well as an army of confused students and old and new anti-Semites blamed the victims of the Holocaust in order to defend themselves.
Israel's challenge in Lebanon is similar to that in Gaza
Proving that it can pay the price of war that even a society that does not care about its people cannot bear for long. Israel must prove again that it can recover, continue to provide a decent and better life to its people and reject condemnation.
Jews stand strong despite attacks and threats
After more than a century of being threatened, the Jews proved that they could develop ventures in their homeland even if their enemies stagnated, failed or disintegrated. Israel faced an international coalition of Arab countries led by Egypt until Sadat realized in 1979 that Egypt could no longer afford the exorbitant costs of such an operation. The disastrous results of the second intifada have kept Palestinians from launching terrorist operations in the West Bank since 2004.
Nasrallah and Iran want to stop the war
Gaza has already proven to be a deterrent. Nasrallah and Iran want to prevent a dangerous war because they know it could lead to widespread destruction and millions of lives in Lebanon, especially in Beirut. Destruction in Gaza was not Israel's war objective. But the Palestinian insistence on using civilian structures for military bases, arsenals, tunnel shafts and bomb-traps made it necessary.
How important is this war for democracies!
Hezbollah knows that similar disregard for its own civilian population will have the same consequences in southern Lebanon. Should Israel be forced to push Hezbollah militarily away from the towns and villages in northern Israel it seeks to destroy? When this war is over, many people will realize how important it has been to all democracies and pluralistic societies. What remains visible is that unscrupulous radicals are looking for any way to undermine and destroy strong and developed democracies. If terrorists can do this with impunity, civilized pluralistic societies have no chance.
For such societies, it may be necessary to tie one hand behind their back in order to preserve their values even in times of crisis. Now the self-proclaimed advocates of progressive moral values are threatening to tie the other hand as well. Israel has done what it had to do in Gaza. It will do the same in Lebanon, Yemen and Syria. If necessary, it will do the same in Iran, but at a much higher price. There is only one option against the fundamentalists, between harsh measures and disastrous consequences.
