Israel, ignoring Bidens gripes, does the job the UN wont: Beat back Hezbollah

On Monday at around 10 p.m.local time, Israeli ground forces reportedly began crossing the border into Lebanon.

Earlier that day, a reporter asked President Biden if he was informed of Israel’s plans for a ground operation in Lebanon and whether he was comfortable with them. “I’m more aware than you might know, and I’m comfortable with them stopping,” Biden responded testily.“We should have a cease-fire.

Now.”Israelis don’t agree with Biden.They view Hezbollah, controlled and funded by Iran, as a mortal threat to the country — and believe that the only way to dismantle that threat is for Israeli forces to seize control of the Lebanese side of the border, systematically dismantle Hezbollah’s missile arsenal and destroy its ground forces.For the past two decades, the Lebanese side of the border has been manned by United Nations troops and units from the Lebanese Armed Forces.

Both were charged by the UN Security Council with dismantling Hezbollah.But the UN forces and the Lebanese military, rather than doing the job they were charged to perform, covered for Hezbollah, which is stronger than both of them.The UN turned a blind eye and a deaf ear as Hezbollah amassed an arsenal of 200,000 projectiles capable of laying waste to Israel and deployed an army of 40,000 terrorists to southern Lebanon.Those forces, the Radwan Brigades, comprise veterans of Iran’s terror wars in Syria and Iraq.With the blood of tens of thousands of Syrians and Iraqis on their hands, they are trained to conduct an invasion of the Galilee that would make Hamas’ one-day Oct.

7 Holocaust in southern Israel look like a walk in the park.Israel has one of the most sophisticated missile defense systems in the world.But it is no match for Hezbollah’s war plan.That plan — which Hezbollah published in 2018 — entails a coordinated ground and air assault and foresees Radwan brigades conquering Israel’s border towns and cities, as thousands of rockets, missiles, mortars a...