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It took the world community nearly a year to condemn the war in Lebanon, but they got the wrong mark. Instead of condemning Hezbollah, the world’s largest Iranian proxy terrorist army, with an estimated 40,000 – 50,000 fighters, for starting a year-long war on October 8, 2023 in support of the terrorist organization Hamas, the West’s political “elites” condemned Israel for defending itself by targeting Hezbollah’s leadership.

The UN Security Council called an emergency session on September 20, during which UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told ambassadors that he was “appalled by the breadth and impact” of the attacks on Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies.

He was joined by Slovenian ambassador Samuel Žbogar – Slovenia held the Security Council presidency – who blamed Israel for creating destabilization and “terror” with its precision targeting of Hezbollah terrorists. Because nothing spells stability and non-terror more than Hezbollah launching “8,000 rockets at Israel, killing 46 Israelis, injuring 294 and displacing 60,000 civilians who are still homeless,” and creating “a major environmental disaster, with over 800 fires breaking out as a result of missiles that have damaged over 50,000 dunams [12,355 acres] of forest land.”

“It [Israel] has created a climate of terror,” Žbogar said. “We are stepping in a dangerous new territory and as new technology is being used and developed, we underline the need to respect the existing legal obligations.”

The Slovenian even tried to cite international law and call for a full investigation of the pager and walkie-talkies attacks. “[T]he international law is clear: use of booby traps is prohibited,” and calling for a full investigation of the pager and walkie-talkies attacks. “Those who ordered and carried out such an attack must be brought to justice,” he said.

There was no mention of international law for Hezbollah’s unprovoked, year-long attacks: bombardments of missiles and attack drones every day at a country smaller than New Jersey.

Israel, in other words, must supposedly be brought before a world court for having the gall to defend its civilians from a terrorist organization and its estimated 150,000 rockets, missiles and drones, which it lobbed indiscriminately against both Jews and Arabs in Israel.

Hezbollah terrorists, evidently, merit special UN concern and protection. In fact, there is recent precedent for it.

More than 100 October 7 terror victims filed a case at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and several of its high-standing officials. The lawsuit charges that UNRWA led a long-standing money-laundering operation to the financial benefit of Hamas. The UN, however, has refused to lift the immunity of its UNRWA employees, at least nine of whom actually participated in the Hamas October 7 massacre during which they murdered more than 1,200 innocent people, including many that they raped, mutilated and burned alive, and took 251 people hostage.

The UN claimed in its filing that “since the U.N. has not waived immunity in this instance, its subsidiary, UNRWA, continues to enjoy absolute immunity from prosecution, and the lawsuit should be dismissed.”

Unbelievably, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice stood by the UN, copying its intervention verbatim. “Because the U.N. has not waived immunity in this case, its subsidiary, UNRWA, retains full immunity, and the lawsuit against UNRWA should be dismissed due to lack of subject matter jurisdiction,” the Department of Justice alleged.

On September 27, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell lamented Israel’s continued successful attempts at destroying one of Iran’s proxy armies.

“What we do is to put all diplomatic pressure to a ceasefire, but nobody seems to be able to stop Netanyahu,” he griped.

When Israel took out Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, one of the world’s most dangerous arch-terrorists, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres could barely hold back his disappointment, counterfactually calling Hezbollah’s unprovoked war against Israel and the IDF’s response a “cycle of violence.”

“I’m gravely concerned by the dramatic escalation of events in Beirut in the last 24 hours,” he posted on X. “This cycle of violence must stop now. All sides must step back from the brink. The people of Lebanon, the people of Israel, as well as the wider region, cannot afford an all-out war.”

What Guterres was actually saying, was that the world’s political elites cannot afford to be rid of one of the world’s worst terrorist organizations.

Several European leaders also appeared saddened by the elimination of Hassan Nasrallah. Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that his demise “threatens destabilization for the whole of Lebanon”, which she alleged — wrongly — “is in no way in Israel’s security interest.”

UK’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy posted about “the need for an immediate ceasefire to bring an end to the bloodshed. A diplomatic solution is the only way to restore security and stability for the Lebanese and Israeli people.”

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot reacted to Nasrallah’s death by demanding Israel “immediately stop its strikes in Lebanon” and said France was opposed to any ground operation in the country.

Only Argentina’s President Javier Milei displayed a reaction fitting the removal of a terrorist mass murderer, when he reposted on X a message from a member of his council of economic advisers, David Epstein, who praised the demise of Nasrallah: “Israel eliminated one of the greatest contemporary murderers. Responsible, among others, for the cowardly attacks in #ARG. Today the world is a little freer.”

Precisely. Israel, as has been noted, is doing the entire world an enormous service by taking out Hezbollah. It posed a threat not only to Israel, but, as the terrorist group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Iran, to the Middle East and the entire Western Hemisphere — especially if Iran is allowed to possess nuclear weapons, reportedly within “weeks.”

Hezbollah and Iran have long established themselves in Latin America and Europe. Hezbollah already murdered more than 250 Americans. In April 1983, a Hezbollah suicide bomber in a truck loaded with 2,000 pounds of explosives blew up the US Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans. That attack was followed in October by two truck bombs that blew up the US Marines barracks in Beirut. The explosion killed 241 US service members. Iran, just since October 2023, through its militias in Syria and Iraq, has launched more than 160 attacks on the US forces in the Middle East.

All the same, when Israel killed Ibrahim Aqil, the mastermind of the 1983 attacks and a member of Hezbollah’s Jihad Council, its highest military body, the US could not even bring itself to thank its ally.

Since April 2023, the US had a $7 million reward for any information leading to Aqil’s whereabouts. Instead, the Biden administration keeps repeating that it is trying to prevent the war’s “escalation,” though such an announcement could well be viewed as a sign of weakness, causing the regional war it is hoping to avoid.

The precision strike that killed Aqil also took out the top 15 Hezbollah commanders of the terrorist organization’s elite Radwan Force who were reportedly planning a repeat of Hamas’ October 7 invasion, this time into northern Israel. UN chief Guterres nevertheless reacted by expressing “grave alarm” over the elimination of terrorists in Lebanon, after having expressed no alarm whatsoever at Hezbollah’s daily pummeling of northern Israel for the past year. He was joined by the likes of Belgium and France.

Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Petra De Sutter condemned the Hezbollah pager explosions in Lebanon. “I strongly condemn the massive terror attack in Lebanon and Syria, which injured thousands of people. A brutal escalation of violence. Silence is not an option. An international investigation is called for. The bloodshed must end,” she posted on Twitter. In October 2023, it took De Sutter four whole days to condemn Hamas’s savage massacre in Israel.

French President Emmanuel Macron, meanwhile, accused Israel of “pushing the region into war,” a charge that is laughable.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pretends that the US is working to prevent “full-blown war” when these claims can also be seen as yet another attempt at saving both Hezbollah and Hamas so they can rearm and attack Israel again until it “is annihilated,” as Hamas officials have vowed to do. A ceasefire now — a pause for Hamas and Hezbollah to re-arm — would also save Iran’s regime, complete with nuclear weapons, as well as the regime’s dreams of hegemony.

The world’s political elites apparently cannot forgive Israel for seeking to defend itself, and rid the world of terrorists working to destroy both America and Western civilization. Could these elites, wittingly or not, be working towards the same result?

Robert Williams is based in the United States.