Twenty-six years after the last Israeli soldier withdrew from Lebanon, Israeli tanks are again advancing from several directions. In the blink of an eye, the country has seemingly warped back in time.
Once again, Lebanon has fallen victim to Hezbollah's reckless decisions. The group launched rockets into Israel in response to the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, prompting an immediate offensive and invasion of Lebanon. Families have fled the south of the country and capital, and from the east in Bekaa, overflowing the city centre and other "safer" areas of the country.
If Hezbollah militants seek martyrdom like their Iranian backers, that's their decision, not ours. In blind service to its patrons in Tehran, the group has sacrificed its own Shiite brethren—the group that has borne the brunt of Israeli bloodlust. The justifications hawked by the party’s spokesmen read like a dark comedy. One is left laughing at the depths of their recklessness.
Our dignity is being squandered, and our families are cast into caravans of displacement all in the service of a foreign regime whose clerics have been blinded by arrogance, extremism, and delusions of grandeur.
