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Killing Nasrallah
Lee Smith
September 27, 2024

By ordering the strike on Nasrallah while attending the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underscored the Jewish state’s independence from the global consensus that has resolved not to confront terrorists but rather to appease them, whether they’re plotting in the Middle East or living among the local populations of Western nations, including the United States. Israel’s attack also shows that almost everything U.S. and other Western civilian and military leaders have believed about the Middle East for the last 20 years was simply a collection of excuses for losing wars. READ MORE

FUTURE OF JEWISH Joshua Hoffman: A historic opportunity for Israel and the Middle East is emerging Tuesday’s launch of 181 ballistic missiles by the Islamic Republic of Iran against Israel should not have come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention the Middle East of late. Since October 7th, Israel has been thoroughly and embarrassingly thrashing the Iranian regime — defanging its proxies across the Middle East, degrading its reputation among said proxies, and proving to the world just how flimsy of a spiderweb is its Islamist dictatorship. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Nasrallah’s seismic death cracked the Iranian axis Friday’s brilliant strike led Syrian rebels to fight for Assad’s ouster, Iranian dissidents pushed for Khamenei’s demise, and Saudi social media lit up with calls against Houthi leaders. Now Israel can use this momentum to strike a hostage deal.