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Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/24/israel-sends-pagers-into-battle-with-hezbollah-as-/
Israelis Are Defending Their Right to Exist with Resilience, Resolve and Courage
(Washington Times) Clifford D. May - Two of the Hizbullah leaders killed in precision Israeli airstrikes had been on America's "most wanted" list with multimillion-dollar bounties on their heads for truck bombings that killed more than 300 diplomats and military personnel serving on a peace mission in Beirut in 1983. Nevertheless, it's become reflexive: Whatever actions Israelis take to deter and perhaps defeat their enemies - who declare that Jewish genocide is their aim - are denounced as unfair and illegal by UN officials and others who do not wish Israelis well. Israelis are not retreating. They are defending their right to exist with resilience, resolve and courage. They are on the front lines in a war against the West. They are latter-day Davids using high-tech slingshots to battle a medieval Goliath. I think most Americans understand that and are becoming increasingly aware of what it would mean for an axis of Iranian jihadis, Russian imperialists, and Chinese Communists to defeat and destroy Israel and other free nations. The writer is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).