By Laurence F. Sanford

Hezbollah, “Party of God,” is a Lebanese Islamic Shia terrorist organization serving as an Iranian proxy for the purpose of destroying Israel and Western Civilization.

Hezbollah is one of eight mortal hydra snakeheads controlled by the immortal snakehead Iran. According to Greek mythology, the hydra was a giant snake-like water creature with nine heads that harmed humans and livestock. If one of the mortal heads were cut off, several new heads would emerge from the wound. The hydra would die only by cutting off the one immortal head, which Heracles of Greek legend accomplished. Heracles then dipped his arrows in the hydra’s poisonous blood to be used against enemies in future conflicts. Unfortunately, his wife, Deianeira, accidentally caused his death with one of the arrows.

By cutting off the mortal heads of Hezbollah and Hamas, Israel has gained temporary relief. Iran is the immortal hydra head and needs to be severed. Iran supports many other snakehead Islamic terror groups, including the Houthis.

Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed on Friday, September 27, in Beirut, Lebanon, in an Israeli air bombing. Nasrallah was 64 years old and had led Hezbollah since 1992. A Muslim cleric and a sayyid (a man who can trace his ancestry back to the Prophet Muhammad), Nasrallah preached “Death to America” and promised martyrs they would go to paradise. In Islamic lore, a martyr is met in paradise by 72 virgins.

Iranian hydra Hamas sucker-punched Israel in Gaza on October 7, 2023, with the slaughter, rape, torture, and hostage-taking of over 1,400 Israelis. Despite Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) intelligence warnings that something was afoot in Gaza, Israeli leadership had taken no preventative action.

After October 7, 2023, Israeli leadership recognized that the thousands of rocket attacks on Israel from southern Lebanon by Hezbollah and from Gaza by Hamas were a prelude to another genocide attack. Israel evacuated 60,000 from northern Israel, with a total of 200,000 internally displaced throughout Israel.

A young Israeli female intelligence officer proposed a plan to cripple Hezbollah leadership. The Israeli leadership and military bought in. The plan was based on the premise that Hezbollah leadership feared Israeli intelligence penetration of its high-tech communication networks and, therefore, had resorted to using low-tech pager systems. A shipment of new pagers was distributed to thousands of Hezbollah leaders. The unanswered questions are: Who or what company financed and ordered the pagers? Where were they manufactured?

On September 17, thousands of pagers exploded simultaneously, killing several and maiming thousands. The following day, hundreds of Hezbollah walkie-talkies exploded. On September 27, the Hezbollah leader, Nasrallah, was dead.

The United Nations, in its usual anti-Israel position, condemned the attacks. Needless to say, the UN said nothing about the thousands of rockets launched against Israel by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), under UN Security Resolution 1701 and the direction of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, had been tasked with maintaining security and stability throughout south Lebanon. One of the tasks was to prevent Hezbollah from building missile launchers. UNIFIL failed the task.

Guterres said it was important also to recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum and added, “The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.” Israel has banned him from entering the country.

Summary

Israel is fighting for its survival and Western Civilization. Yet Western democracies are not united in defending their own civilization. France is advocating the termination of support to Israel, and the United States is funneling millions of dollars to people who hate Western Civilization.

After the Israeli bombings in Lebanon against Hezbollah leaders, weapon stockpiles, and missile launchers, the U.S. government announced $157 million in aid to Lebanon — a country that is dysfunctional and effectively ruled by Hezbollah; a country that wishes “Death to America.” This brings the year’s total of U.S. aid to Lebanon to $385 million.

Action

1. Terminate all U.S. funding to terrorist organizations and governments that hate us. Money will not buy love. The list includes UNRWA, Gaza, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Lebanon.
2. Support “gray zone” activities to change the Iranian regime.
3. Support Israel and Ukraine, which are fighting for survival against tyrannies that hate the West.
4. Reform intelligence agencies to better monitor threats against the American homeland.
5. Rebuild the U.S. arsenal of democracy.
6. Reciprocity should be the foundation of U.S. foreign relations.

Laurence F. Sanford is a senior analyst at the American Security Council Foundation.