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Source: https://www.newsweek.com/hezbollah-murdered-americans-israel-bringing-them-justice-opinion-1977242
Hizbullah Murdered Americans. Israel Is Bringing Them to Justice
(Newsweek) Bassem Eid - Hizbullah, the most heavily armed non-state actor in the world, has for decades murdered Americans, destabilized Lebanon, and targeted innocent Jewish communities around the world. In April 1983, Hizbullah assaulted the U.S. Embassy in Beirut with a suicide truck bomb that slaughtered 63 people, including 17 Americans. In October of that year, Hizbullah bombed the U.S. and French Marine barracks in Beirut, murdering 240 U.S. and 58 French servicemembers. In April 1984, Hizbullah bombed a restaurant near the U.S. Air Force Base in Torrejon, Spain, killing 18 U.S. servicemembers and injuring 83. In 1992, a Hizbullah suicide bombing at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires killed 29 and injured 240. In 1994, Hizbullah struck the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, murdering 85 and injuring 300. In 2005, when Lebanon was on the verge of shaking off Syrian domination, Hizbullah assassinated the popular Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Hizbullah has shown that, in line with the ideology of the Iranian Revolution, their war is not only with the "Little Satan" of Israel but with the "Great Satan" of the U.S. American and Western objectives in this conflict must be to empower and support Israel to finish the job, comprehensively defeating and demilitarizing Hizbullah and transferring control of Lebanon back to the Lebanese people. Hizbullah is a violent hate group bent on war to the death with the West. Too many Americans and others have lost their lives to its crimes. Hizbullah must be defeated. The writer is a Palestinian peace advocate, political analyst, and human rights pioneer who founded the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group in 1996.