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The IDF confirms it: Nasrallah was killed in Friday’s airstrike — 22 Comments

1. A monstrous killer who met his due. He destroyed Lebanon and tried to destroy Israel.

2. I have been thinking that Israel must have had a backchannel conversation with the government of Lebanon to make sure that they wouldn’t object–other than perhaps public posturing. Apparently they wanted Nasrallah gone almost as much as Israel did.

3. Lebanon was good and wrecked ‘ere Hezbollah was ever formed. He certainly was not a salutary influence there or anywhere else. There’s a rival Shi’ite militia in Lebanon which antedates it. They’ll benefit if Hezbollah is crippled.

4. @Art Deco, maybe that rival militia will think twice about attacking Israel (even if they get Iranian support). As for Lebanon, I think a lot of Christians have left. I agree there’s not much hope for a return to its glory days when Beirut was the “Paris of the Middle East.”

5. I agree there’s not much hope for a return to its glory days when Beirut was the “Paris of the Middle East.”
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   During the period running from 1950 to 1974, the ratio of Lebanon’s per capita product to that of the United States bounced around 0.32. From 2006 to 2018 it bounced around 0.24. During the period running form 1975 to 2005, it bounced around 0.16. It wouldn’t surprise me if they climbed back to their former baseline.

6. I am reminded of a quote attributed to Mark Twain- or was it attributed to Yogi Berra? 🙂

   I Did Not Attend the Funeral, But I Sent a Nice Letter Saying I Approved of It

   A reminder of why many Lebanese approve of his funeral NYT:Hassan Nasrallah, Who Led Hezbollah for Decades, Killed at 64 :

   In 2005, Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated by a huge suicide truck bomb in downtown Beirut. An international tribunal later indicted four members of Hezbollah, although ultimately only one was convicted in absentia. The killing was believed to have been organized by the Syrian government, which had been determined to thwart Mr. Hariri’s attempts to loosen the grip of Syria’s security forces on the country. Mr. Nasrallah warned Lebanese against cooperating with the tribunal.

   And the news is confirmed on Shabat.

   This is the time for Israel to continue to do heavy damage on Hezbollah’s arsenal. Cease fire? When Hezbollah’s arsenal is degraded to a fraction of what it was, THEN is the time for a cease fire. Cease fire? Who is left in the Hezbollah hierarchy to approve of one? Maybe go to the UN and tell them that NOW is the time to enforce 1701. Israel will help with the enforcement, if the UN is still unwilling to enforce 1701.

7. the Amal, they were a minor nuissance, Nabih Berri who has been in charge for ever, he was the hostage negotiator in the 80s

   Hezbollah was pruned from them, there is a Sunni militia, name escapes me, they are the Al Queda affiliate, they might take up the challenge, but then again they might keep their heads down for a bit

8. Thank God for this, and may He bless Israel!

9. Gringo, it is a Twain quote, Yogi never was dark with his humor.
   Hezbollah is weakened, the trick is if the other factions can put differences aside and destroy it permanently.

10. The second chance for peace in the Middle East. The first was when Trump severed the head of the Iranian regime in Iraq, and subsequent actions that included Russia to mitigate progress of the Islamic State. L’chaim!

11. there is a Sunni militia, name escapes me
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    The patron-client formations in the Sunni population have not typically been organized into abiding political parties. There was an organization in the 1950s whose name was translated as ‘Moslem Scouts’ and there was the al-Mourabitoun militia during the civil war. The Hariri organization used the banner ‘Future Movement’, but they’re boycotting electoral politics right now.

12. The scope and precision of Israel’s attack continues to boggle me:

    * Booby-trap pagers and trick Hezbollah into distributing them.
    * Booby-trap walkie-talkies and trick Hezbollah into distributing them.
    * Map Hezbollah’s buildings and weapon depots.
    * Explode pagers, killing and wounding Hezbollah.
    * Next day explode walkie-talkies, killing and wounding more Hezbollah.
    * Target and destroy Hezbollah weapon depots.
    * Hezbollah leadership must meet face-to-face for communication.
    * Target and destroy Hezbollah meeting places and kill top-level Hezbollah including Nasrallah.

    This is legendary stuff.

13. huxley:

    Agreed. It also indicates to me how long Israel has been restraining its capabilities in order to placate the US and other nations.

14. huxley: For me the “…trick Hezbollah into distributing them…” part has not been sufficiently discussed, or even viewed (until now) as a crucial part of Israel’s plan. We are told that Hezbollah was concerned about the security of their cell phones and so decided to replace them by pagers. Causing these “concerns” and “decisions” must have been a sophisticated operation by Israel.

15. We are told that Hezbollah was mostly located in Beirut, or in a particular southern suburb of Beirut, but no place I can find on a map. Was the area like a military garrison, or was it like a normal neighborhood with apartment buildings that I might wind up driving through by mistake?

    Does anyone know the address where Nasrallah was killed?

16. LTEC
    We are told that Hezbollah was mostly located in Beirut, or in a particular southern suburb of Beirut, but no place I can find on a map.

    Nasrallah was killed in the in the Dahieh district in southern Beirut (sometimes spelled Dahiya) , just north of the airport. BBCLive Reporting has a map.

    Israel says it struck Hezbollah’s headquarters as huge explosions rocked Beirut

    The series of blasts at around nightfall reduced six apartment towers to rubble in Haret Hreik, a densely populated, predominantly Shiite district of Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburbs, according to Lebanon’s national news agency.

    Wiki: Dahieh reports that it is a district of some 6 square miles with about 800,000 inhabitants, which gives it a very high density of ~ 130,000 per square mile. NYC is just under 30,000 per square mile.

17. @ Neo > “It also indicates to me how long Israel has been restraining its capabilities in order to placate the US and other nations.”

    Indeed.
    IMO the Israelis have finally reached a tipping point: if they are going to be called terrorists and genocidaires after everything they do to protect civilians in Gaza and Lebanon (such as there are any, separate from Hamas and Hezbollah), they might as well go ahead and take out their enemies to the maximum of their ability — which appears to be formidable.

    I am sure there are Israelis kicking themselves (and others) for not being less placating before October 7 (nearly a full year ago!), but the provocation of that massacre is adequate to justify taking off the velvet gloves and getting down to business.
    I would have written “is undeniable” except that there are people vociferously and viciously denying every bit of it even now!

    IOW: Let us show you what genocide could look like, if we were just a tenth as depraved as Iran & Company.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-of-netanyahus-un-speech-enough-is-enough-he-says-of-hezbollah-also-warns-iran/

    Ladies and gentlemen, the curse of October 7th began when Hamas invaded Israel from Gaza, but it didn’t end there. Israel was soon forced to defend itself on six more war fronts organized by Iran.

    On October 8th, Hezbollah attacked us from Lebanon. Since then, they have fired over 8,000 rockets at our towns and cities, at our civilians, at our children. Two weeks later, the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen launched drones and missiles at Israel, the first of 250 such attacks, including one yesterday aimed at Tel Aviv. Iran’s Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq have targeted Israel dozens of times over the past year as well.

    Fueled by Iran, Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria perpetrated scores of attacks there and throughout Israel. And last April, for the first time ever, Iran directly attacked Israel from its own territory.

    Firing 300 drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles at us. I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran: If you strike us, we will strike you. There is no place—there is no place in Iran—that the long arm of Israel cannot reach. And that’s true of the entire Middle East.

    Far from being lambs led to the slaughter, Israel’s soldiers have fought back with incredible courage and with heroic sacrifice. And I have another message for this assembly and for the world outside this hall: We are winning.

    The Left will never forgive the Jews for winning.
    The anti-Semites never forgive the Jews for anything, whether they do it or not.

18. Here are some apartments for sale in the district where Nasrallah met his maker. I wonder if prices are low because of the “instability” in the area. Haret Hreik got bombed out in 2006, in addition to this year.
    Haret Hreik apartments for sale.

19. AesopFan:

    You might want to take a look at this interesting book entitled People Love Dead Jews.

20. Gringo:

    Problems with the neighbors, I guess.

21. @ Neo – looks like an intriguing book!

22. A confirmation that Israel has also eliminated Nasrallah’s successor.
    How far down the waiting list will they go?
    https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/09/28/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-iranian-empire-n4932921

    Also note that, as many of us are aware, the US is funding both (all?) sides of the Middle East wars.

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