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Source: https://spectator.com/article/the-shameful-lies-about-israels-attack-on-hezbollah/
The Shameful Lies about Israel's Attack on Hizbullah
(Spectator-UK) Brendan O'Neill - In solidarity with Hamas's Nazi-like pogrom of Oct. 7, Hizbullah started raining projectiles on Israel the very next day. It has fired 12,000 missiles, rockets and drones at its neighbor. Scores have been slain, including 12 Druze children playing a game of soccer. Tens of thousands in northern Israel were forced into internal exile. There is not one country on earth that would tolerate this. French President Macron last week rebuked Israel for striking back against Hizbullah. He's being gushed over, naturally. Yet to those of us whose moral compasses have not been shattered on the wheel of hysterical hatred for the world's only Jewish nation, Macron's comments are mad. Immoral, even. Reprimanding a democratic state for pushing back against the racist militia that has subjected it to such savage fire? Who does he think he is? Hizbullah is essentially an expeditionary force of the Islamic Republic. It has made Lebanon into a basket-case outpost of Tehran's Islamist lunacy. Israel is fighting a militia that has colonized vast swathes of Lebanon with a foreign-born Islamism. Yet, peruse social media, switch on the BBC, and you could be forgiven for thinking Israel is bombing Lebanon for sport. It's that "genocidal bloodlust" again, say the Israelophobes, blind to how unhinged such libels against the Jewish state sound to the rest of us. To obsess over what Israel is currently doing to Hizbullah without mentioning what Hizbullah has already done to Israel is to engage in flagrant acts of deceit.