Biden-Harris admins lack of support left Israel with no other choice it had to strike Hezbollah

They can’t say they weren’t warned.For nearly a year, Israel made it clear it would not tolerate Hezbollah’s daily rocket and missile attacks, which had driven 60,000 Israelis from their homes near the border with Lebanon.The pounding the Jewish state delivered to Hamas after its Oct.7 invasion fortified the message that Hezbollah would get its turn in the crosshairs unless it stopped.But Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a survivor of many conflicts with Israel, assumed past was prologue and that the international community, led by a feckless American president, would pressure Israel to stop.No doubt Nasrallah’s paymasters in Iran concurred, and so the daily barrage continued with the aim of diverting Israeli troops and resources from Gaza and making northern Israel uninhabitable.The impact in Israel was devastating.

The nation was failing to protect its citizens and its borders were shrinking.Coming on the heels of the surprise Hamas invasion in the south, the situation was intolerable, politically and militarily.The first major Israeli response was the sensational beeper-go-boom operation, which delivered both a military and psychological wallop to Hezbollah.The attack showcased the depth of Israeli intelligence and its ability to carry out an unimaginably difficult operation.When Nasrallah foolishly ignored the point again and kept up his assaults, Israel upped the ante with its targeted assassinations of his closest commanders.The wipeout of everyone around him led me to wonder if Nasrallah was being spared because he was an Israeli agent.When I suggested as much to an American friend living temporarily in Israel, he answered with an informed response: Nasrallah had been allowed to live, he said, because Israel wanted him to see the utter destruction he had caused.The hope was that he would realize it was his turn unless he called off the attacks.He didn’t, and now he’s dead, too.It was no coincidence that Israel pulled the trigger shortly after ...