Why Israel and Hezbollah Are Still Firing Amid a Lebanon Cease-Fire – The New York Times
Is it a ceasefire if the fire has not ceased?
A question from an era where words actually mattered and journalism didn’t consist of copying White House and Brookings Institute press releases.
Hezbollah and Israel Trade Fire, Further Testing Cease-Fire – The New York Times
Why Israel and Hezbollah Are Still Firing Amid a Lebanon Cease-Fire – The New York Times
It’s not as if the Brits, who are supposed to care about the English language, are any better.
Israel strikes and Hezbollah mortar fire strain Lebanon ceasefire – BBC
Israeli and Hezbollah strikes test limits of ceasefire – BBC
The limit of the ceasefire, one would think, is that the firing must cease. If the firing has not ceased, it is not a ceasefire, it is an ex-ceasefire, as a certain show that once appeared on the Beeb might have pointed out.
But there was never a ceasefire.
Ceasefire is an ancient Arabic word meaning “hah, the infidels have ceased firing on us because of their cowardice, let us attack them at once.”
That’s pretty much how these ceasefires work.
Israel stopped pressing its advantage against Hezbollah after maximum pressure from the Biden administration. Hezbollah responded by doing what Islamic terrorists do, and crossed the Litani river (a violation of the ceasefire), began taking up positions, setting up rocket launchers, and preparing to attack. Israel responded and lots of firing began again… testing the limits of the ceasefire which after four days had kicked the bucket, shuffled off ‘ts mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the choir invisible.
So according to the media it’s a fiery but mostly peaceful ceasefire which is the only kind you can have with Islamic terrorists, Marxists, career criminals, and assorted other enemies of humanity to whom peace is an open door to do their worst. That’s why it’s best to avoid fiery peaceful ceasefires in favor of just winning wars.
Walter Sieruk says
About that so called “truce” sponsored by Joe Biden , it’s a disingenuous farce. The reason why this is so because that despicable old Biden really doesn’t want Israel to defeat Hezbollah is because Biden is a stooge ,tool and useful idiot of those Muslim tyrants of Iran. For in power in that hostile and vicious Islamic regime backs and Hezbollah and supplies deadly weapons to that murderous jihad entity.
This exposes just how horrendously terribly treacherous Biden actually is.
Creepy old Joe Biden doesn’t anything at all about those three Americans who had been killed by rockets supplied to Iran’s proxy jihad terror/murder entities.
Likewise Biden doesn’t care, one little bit , that which it some down to that subject Iran is just a responsible for those dead Americans and those jihad stooge groups of that “mullah regime.”
All that despicable traitor Biden cares about is appeasing those Muslim despots of Iran by providing to them everything they demand.
Joe Biden is either an incompetent feeble -minded fool or a traitorous treasonous villain.
Which even the case with him, Biden by giving away everything to those tyrants of that Islamic regime of Iran who such spiteful enemies of the United States that they publicly refer to her as “the Great Satan” and likewise brainwash and then incite the Iranian people to chant, over and over again “Death to America” reveals much about the sinister and insidious character of subversive creepy old Joe.
Therefore, to the very end of his term in office Biden continues appeasing supporting and further upholding that anti-American, anti-Israel vicious and hostile tyrannical Islamic regime.
Therefore, he has to be a very evil, un-American very despicable and dangerous man.
Walter Sieruk says
That hoax of a “ceasefire” ,or what some people call a “truce” that Joe Biden is behind is deceptive ploy by Hezbollah because that entity jihad entity is losing this war in started with Israel
The jihadist chiefs of Hezbollah did l only keep their promises only as long as it fits into their Islamic goals, and no longer
In the meantime] while they are abiding by the “truce’ , before they break it , Hezbollah be restoring it’s weapons ,provide by Iran , to attack Israel again, attempting to murder her people.
Such false hopes for peace which are based on the foundation of lies are nothing new when it comes to Israel. For example, the Bible in Psalm 55:20, 21. Which reads “Such men do violence to those at peace with them and break their promised word; their speech is smoother the butter but their thoughts are of war.” [N.E.B.]
Walter Sieruk says
The State of Israel should come down hard on that murderous jihad entity ,Hezbollah since it violated the “ truce” by , once again launching deadly missile attacks into Israel.
For the use of the armed might is the way to defeat the murderous jihadists of Hezbollah. This is because the Muslim terrorists of Hezbollah will not reason to reason or logic. The only language that they are able to understand is the language of the strong of might of the power of the Israel Defense Force.
As Thomas Jefferson had , so rightly and wisely ,written “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
In addition, there is much good solid valid sense in the wisdom of the statement apply to the Israel Defense Force pounding down with much military might of Hezbollah. The statement is “Half-measures in war is both folly and madness.”
Walter Sieruk says
Since Hezbollah broke the “ceasefire” it should be dealt with defeated and even destroyed by hitting it hard, hit it long and keep on hitting it with strong powerful forceful military strikes until it’s unable to raise up again with its ugly, vicious and deadly jihad Islamic head.
Therefore, the government authorities and officials of the State of Israel have a duty and responsibility to use sarong military force against Hezbollah to ensure the safety security and lives of the people who are citizens of that nation. It’s basic matter of self-defense.
As the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, rightly and wisely, in a speech had declared, “The right to self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good headline, Daniel. A Lebanese ceasefire as designed by CNN
Skeptiker says
Mit Terroristen verhandelt man nicht. Punkt.
OLD GUY says
Joe just wanted to claim he stoped a war in his book of memories. Which will be published as soon as he leaves office and will make him a billionaire.