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Israel must tolerate what is intolerable.

Over the past year, a terrorist group has fired thousands of rockets into the Jewish state – the catalyst for which was a heinous pogrom against Israel by another terrorist group – and we are told that it is Israel that has finally struck in earnest, and the situation is dangerously escalating.

Since Hamas’ atrocities on October 7, Lebanon-based Hezbollah fired approximately 8,000 rockets into Israel. These massive attacks forced tens of thousands of Israelis to flee the north of the country. In July, a rocket killed 12 young adults and children playing soccer in the Golan Heights, a random massacre with no military purpose.

Israel has retaliated against the horrors on the Golan Heights but has broadly embraced Hezbollah’s attacks as it focused on the war against Hamas in the south while the Biden administration sought to check its hand in the north.

The theme, as always, is that the Jewish state is expected to accept as background noise unprovoked attacks on its sovereign territory that no other state would ever tolerate.

What other country is asked to endure a massive influx of civilians in exchange for false regional ridicule?

Israel will not follow these rules, nor should it. With his words, he began to heat up the atmosphere against Hezbollah “Mission Impossible”-dignified attacks on Hezbollah operatives via their pagers and other electronic devices.

The pager attack was an experiment to see whether Israel could conduct perhaps the most carefully calibrated counterterrorism operation in modern times and still be accused of committing war crimes. Indeed, AOC and others have condemned the Jewish state.

Israel strikes terrorist targets from the air – and is accused of war crimes.

Israel entered the country – and was accused of war crimes.

Israel does neither, choosing instead to target terrorists using its own devices against them – and is accused of war crimes.

It is assumed that Israel’s role is to avoid, conceal, and accept whatever punishments its ruthless enemies inflict in order to keep matters from happening. “increase.”

The IDF could conduct a delaying action while the Jewish state was pushed into the sea by advancing forces committed to its destruction – and would still be accused of war crimes.

This entire way of thinking is a profound moral distortion masquerading as nuanced strategic thought.

The idea that a pager attack is a violation of international law is ridiculous. Philosopher Michael Walzer, writing in The New York Times, opposed the operation, arguing that the agents killed and wounded “they were not mobilized and were not militarily engaged.” However, in one breath he admitted: “Yes, these devices were most likely used by Hezbollah operatives for military purposes.”

This made them legal military targets. In practice, there is no other way that Israel could have hit so many terrorists with so little collateral damage. He could have sent drones or sniper teams after just a few of them, which would have tragically caused collateral damage. Hezbollah itself successfully targeted the pager attack by distributing the devices to its operators.

Taking advantage of the resulting disruption to Hezbollah’s communications and the reduction of its effective ranks, Israel launched a bomb attack on a high-level meeting of Hezbollah leaders and destroyed Hezbollah’s munitions and rocket launchers from the air. The Biden administration looks like simple escalation because it doesn’t understand the concept of deterrence – putting the enemy in fear of what you might do to them, rather than allowing the enemy to set the pace for the conflict or limit your actions out of fear of what they might do next.

If Israel manages to successfully deter Hezbollah, it may mean – which is, of course, not guaranteed – that the conflict will de-escalate. Regardless, the Jewish state has no obligation to tolerate what is intolerable.