The Associated Press article “Hezbollah confirms its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike” (Sept. 28, TribLive) included two sets of direct quotes from citizens in Lebanon that explain the essence of the desperate war Israel faces against enemies in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank from the Houthis, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Muslim terrorist enemies as non-state entities.
“We wish it were our own children” paraphrasing a (Lebanese) mother holding up her infant and referring to dead Hezbollah terrorists.
“We don’t believe he’s dead (dead Hezbollah terrorist) … he is why we came here to fight (i.e., to kill Israeli children), a Lebanese man stated to the AP reporter.
So, direct examples of support for Hezbollah, and we’ve read and heard on TV network news similar expressions reported back in our free press by respected, ethical news outlets. There were never followup reports of these as isolated or radical minority beliefs but as examples of a generalized support.
Starting World War II, both Germany and Japan had perceived grievances they refused to address diplomatically, peacefully, but resorted to total war and genocide, terror. To a lesser degree, we include Italy and the USSR.
Americans need to learn the story of what we, the free world, faced, in WWII.
Yes, indeed Gazans, Palestinian citizens have grievances, just as their German and Japanese civilian predecessors did in the 1930s, but then and now, support for evil, deadly, murderous leadership results only in death, unimaginable suffering for civilians, predominately children and women.
D’Anthony Kennedy
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