David Horovitz
One hundred hostages are still held in Gaza. Tens of thousands of Israelis are only just beginning to hope that stability has been restored to the north. Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are still capable of launching rockets and drones. Soldiers are still losing their lives in Gaza and in south Lebanon.
But 14 months after Hamas invaded, on the worst day in modern Israeli history, it is the Iranian “Axis of Resistance” that is falling apart, and the State of Israel that is pulling itself together.
After the unfathomable failure to defend against Hamas’s overt preparations for invasion and slaughter in the south, and a subsequent slow and protracted military campaign in Gaza, Israeli intel, ground and air forces over the past three months devastated Hezbollah — Hamas’s far more powerful terrorist army across the northern border — and in so doing rendered Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria vulnerable to a jihadist overthrow.
This would not have happened if Netanyahu had been prepared to end the war in Gaza in order to secure a deal for the hostages. It could have happened earlier if the Gaza war had been less ponderous and the IDF had been freed up more quickly to effectively tackle Hezbollah.
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