Ever since Foreign Minister Winston Peters sided with the UN against Israel on the Gaza vote, there has been nothing but astounding success on the Israeli side in their battle against terrorist forces like Hamas and Hezbollah.
The recent successes against Hezbollah read like something out of Boy’s Own. Firstly there were the exploding pagers, then the walkie talkies.
No sooner had we digested this in awe than Israel bombed Nasrallah and 20 of the top brass in the elite Redwan force, killing them all with bunker bombs.
The choreography on this was immaculate as Israeli F35s took off just as Netanyahu was finishing his speech at the UN; which Nasrallah and his cohorts would have been watching.
Israel had given up on the ‘out to lunch’ mob in the West and decided to go it alone. Netanyahu only let the genuflecting Iran Bidenites know at the last minute of the attack on Beirut. The Israelis found that if you want a job well done you have to do it yourself.
The upshot of this is that Netanyahu is now being called King of the Middle-East by Muslims on social media. America has lost its pole position, that is if it ever had it, because of successive appeasers like the Obama administration and now the present one. Though Biden did manage to squeak that ‘Justice had been done on Nasrallah.’
No doubt America is resentful about Israel seizing the military initiative. The West has lost the geopolitical plot big time by eulogising a tyrant – with the help of the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian.
The West, including New Zealand, has been whinging on about ceasefires, which the wily Israelis have dismissed as it would only give the enemy time to regroup. The happenings over the last few weeks have illustrated how incompetent the West is regarding terrorism. Using diplomacy to deal with non-negotiable fanaticism just won’t work.
This is why the October 7 pogrom happened and the subsequent war that’s dragged on and made 80,000 Israelis refugees in their own country. It’s taken Israel – in extremis – to show the spineless West that you have to make war to prevent worse.
It’s not just Israel in the Middle-East that has suffered under Nasrallah. Because of his support of Bashar al Assad, the civil war in Syria swung his way causing a vicious crackdown on his opponents. No wonder Syrians were holding up placards that said ‘Thank you Netanyahu. By killing Nasrallah you light up the path of peace.’
There was dancing in the streets and fireworks in other Muslim nations and celebratory cakes and sweets given out in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria and no doubt elsewhere. Muslims have a different view on Nasrallah than the West. ‘It takes one to know one.’ Regarding Israel there has been an ‘inversion of morality’ happening, applied by its enemies or the naïve West.
According to some, Israel is always in the wrong, but even Muslims are seeing Israel as the major player in the Middle East and to some they are the chief defender of civilised values.
