The truth is that I’m glad Hassan Nasrallah is dead. The bastard and his fellow Hezbollah terrorists deserve death, and they finally got what they deserved. I wish that innocent Lebanese civilians didn’t have to die. That is the unfortunate tragedy in this particular chapter of the story.
It’s tragic that, like Hamas, Hezbollah doesn’t give a damn about anyone but themselves. It’s appalling that neither the Lebanese government/military nor the UN/UNIFIL upheld their part in multiple UN resolutions (including binding Security Council resolutions) to disarm Hezbollah – that they didn’t even try to stop Hezbollah from continuing to amass weapons for 18 years despite those resolutions. The Lebanese government turned a blind eye while Hezbollah built bunkers under neighborhoods in Beirut and stored weapons in civilian homes. For nearly a year, no one tried to stop Hezbollah as they targeted Northern Israel almost daily. No one condemned it. No one even paid attention unless Israel responded, and then they called for de-escalation on both sides. Apparently, “all lives matter”, but Israeli lives don’t.
My heart goes out the Lebanese people. It does. They don’t deserve for their government to abandon them like this without so much as a whimper. The fragility of the Lebanese government is not an excuse for Hezbollah to be allowed to do whatever it wants while the world either ignores them or stands to the side wringing its hands helplessly because it doesn’t want to get involved. That’s not good enough, and both the Israeli people and the Lebanese people deserve better. Now that Israel has done the heavy, painful lifting, maybe the world will finally step in and help make things better for all of us.
But I doubt it.
