6 November 2024

Confronting Terror Requires Conviction to Win

Sandra Hagee Parker

Israel’s war against Hezbollah was as inevitable as it was avoidable. Shaken by an unending war in Afghanistan and its concomitant withdrawal, the failure of which will live in eternal infamy, our political leaders over the last two decades came to favor diplomats promising to de-fund, disarm, and contain terror groups. As the world now witnesses the brutal outcome of these choices, it is clear the only path to decisive victory over terror is force.

Consider Lebanon. In terms of undermining terror, our leaders barely tried to do so. The diplomatic tradecraft they relied upon failed so spectacularly that Hezbollah hollowed out whole regions of northern Israel with weapons imported under the noses of willfully blind U.N. peacekeepers. This led directly to both significant bloodshed and entire portions of Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon being turned to rubble once again.

In contrast to that still-favored approach, Israel is decisively confronting and eliminating terror threats. The IDF has done so in remarkable fashion by killing Hezbollah’s leaders, destroying its infrastructure, and choking off its access to money and weapons from Iran. As a result, both Jerusalem’s and Beirut’s sovereignty is likely to be restored. The Holy Land and the Land of the Cedars stand a real chance of a brighter future – unless the diplomats stop it first.

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