Israels war against Hezbollah is a righteous necessity not a needless escalation

A terror group has launched thousands of missiles into the Jewish state over the last year — catalyzed by a hideous pogrom against Israel carried out by another terror group — and we are told that it is Israel, finally hitting back in earnest, that is dangerously escalating the situation.Since the Hamas atrocities on Oct.7, Lebanon-based Hezbollah has fired roughly 8,000 rockets at Israel.These indiscriminate attacks have forced tens of thousands of Israelis to flee the north of the country.In July, a Hezbollah missile killed 12 young adults and children who were playing soccer in the Golan Heights, a random massacre with no military purpose whatsoever. Israel retaliated for the horror in the Golan Heights but has generally absorbed Hezbollah’s attacks, since it’s been focused on the war against Hamas to its south while the Biden administration has been working to stay its hand in the north. The theme, as ever, is that the Jewish state is expected to accept as background noise unprovoked attacks on its sovereign territory that no other state would ever abide.What other country is asked to bear the rocketing of its civilian population as the price for faux regional comity?Israel won’t abide by these rules, and nor should it.

It began turning up the heat against Hezbollah with its “Mission Impossible”-worthy attacks on Hezbollah operatives via their pagers and other electronic devices. The pager attack was an experiment in whether Israel could carry out perhaps the most carefully calibrated counter-terrorist operation in the modern age and still get accused of committing war crimes.Sure enough, AOC and others have condemned the Jewish state. Israel hits terrorist targets from the air — and it’s accused of war crimes. Israel goes in on the ground — and it’s accused of war crimes. Israel does neither, opting instead to target terrorists by using their own devices against them — and it’s accused of war crimes. The assumption is that Isra...