Israel has shown the world that appeasement does not work on bullies and savage terrorists. Hizballah is reportedly pulling back and controlling its “martyr” tally — an unusual declaration given the Islamic call to martyrdom, deemed the highest calling.
The words of Muhammad: “I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred.” Sahih Bukhari 52:54
A man asks Muhammad “which of men is the best?” Muhammad replies that it is the man who is always ready for battle and flies into it “seeking death at places where it can be expected.” Sahih Muslim 20:4655
Meanwhile, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati says Hizballah is acting “wisely,” as he tries to keep his country out of joining a war on Israel’s Northern front.
“Exclusive: Lebanon’s Hezbollah works to curb hefty losses in Israel clashes, sources say,” by Laila Bassam and Tom Perry, Reuters, October 30, 2023:
BEIRUT, Oct 30 (Reuters) – With dozens of Hezbollah fighters killed in three weeks of border clashes with Israel, the Lebanese group is working to stem its losses as it prepares for the possibility of a drawn-out conflict, three sources familiar with its thinking said.
The Iran-backed group has lost 47 fighters to Israeli strikes at Lebanon’s frontier since its Palestinian ally Hamas and Israel went to war on Oct. 7 – about a fifth of the number killed in a full-scale war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.
With most of its fighters killed in Israeli drone strikes, Hezbollah has unveiled its surface-to-air missile capability for the first time, declaring on Sunday it downed an Israeli drone. The missiles are part of an increasingly potent arsenal.
The Israeli military has not commented on Sunday’s reported drone incident. But Israel said on Saturday it had stopped a surface-to-air missile fired from Lebanon at one of its drones and that it responded by striking the launch site.
One of the sources familiar with Hezbollah’s thinking told Reuters that the use of anti-aircraft missiles was one of several steps taken by the Shi’ite Muslim group to curb its losses and counter Israeli drones, which have picked off its fighters in the rocky terrain and olive groves along the border.
Hezbollah had made “arrangements to reduce the number of martyrs”, the source said, without offering further details……
Bexarkat says
It is very interesting how Sahih Bukhari 52:54, as noted above, may also well-define Einstein’s Theory of Insanity.
Hudders. says
Oh no please don’t reduce.
Maybe do it by drowning, so nobody innocent is killed, but you scum are gone.
Murdering terrorist filth.
ElderlyZionist says
I hope Israel doesn’t take Hezbollah’s ‘reasonableness’ at face value. One reason Hamas’ big raid on October 7 was so successful was that their leaders had fooled Israeli authorities into thinking that the Hamasniks were prioritizing governing Gaza over murdering Jews. So the Israelis issued more work permits, moved troops off the Gaza border and ignored Hamas’ military build-up. Don’t drop your guard.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I also hope that Israel, if it’s forced to expand this war into Lebanon, resorts to heavy aerial bombing rather than moving in. Already, Arab countries are pulling their citizens out of Lebanon, expecting the war to expand there as well. Once Israel gets Gaza back, they should turn to Lebanon and destroy Hizbullah there, since Lebanon was where Hamas trained for its paragliding exercises to attack Israel: the pretext should be that Lebanon was where the training for the October 7th attacks happened, even if it originated from Gaza
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“Hezbollah had made “arrangements to reduce the number of martyrs”, the source said, without offering further details……”
I have news for “the source”:
The IDF has its own arrangements to INCREASE the number of Hezbollah “martyrs”.