Israel Acts Alone

Bernard-Henri Lévy

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We know Lenin’s quote, apocryphal but so true: “There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen.”

Well this is exactly what has happened, and is still happening, in the Middle East and beyond, with the booby-trapped pagers of Sept. 17, the defeat, in Lebanon, on Sept. 29, of Hezbollah and one day later, with the advancement of Israeli ground troops into southern Lebanon.

A terrorist army, more powerful than al-Qaida and ISIS combined, is permanently diminished and, for now, decapitated.

The Iranian regime, for which Hezbollah was the avant-garde, the jewel in the crown, or to continue the Bolshevik metaphor, its most precious capital, is weakened by a defeat that comes on the heels of the bombing of its embassy complex in Syria, the execution of Ismael Haniyeh, head of Hamas, in the heart of Tehran, and the failure of its general offensive, April 17, against Israel. And it seems that, for the first time in nearly a half-century, the regime is finally on the defensive, fragile and flailing …