A memorial service for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Michigan featured praise for prominent terror figures as well as denunciations of the United States’ “terrorism.”
On Saturday, a memorial service for slain Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah took place at the Hadi Youth Community Center in Dearborn, Michigan. The event, which was live-streamed on YouTube, featured fiery speeches from local religious leaders and activists who praised Nasrallah and Iran’s leadership while condemning America.
When Israel assassinated Abbas al-Musawi in 1992, there were celebrations at the demise of the Hezbollah leader whose militants had harried Israeli troops in southern Lebanon. His successor, Hassan Nasrallah, propelled the group to new and more dangerous heights. With Nasrallah now dead, his possible replacement, Hashem Safieddine, may hope to do the same.
A Hamas commander in Lebanon who was killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight was an accredited member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the embattled agency confirmed after his death.
Only one word captures the vibe in the West following Israel’s killing of Hassan Nasrallah: anguish. Everywhere you look there is dread over what Israel has done, and fear of what it might unleash. Disquiet drips from every newspaper. You hear it in the trembling timbre of news anchors. You see it in the feverish warnings of ‘anti-war’ types that the Middle East now stands upon the precipice of apocalypse. You hear it in Guardianistas’ shrill damning of Israel as a ‘pugnacious out-of-control force’ that now even takes out terrorists ‘against the United States’ explicit wishes’. Yes, how dare this uppity state defy our masters in the neo-empire?
You get the impression that western leaders, diplomats and media come to enjoy chatting with Islamist terrorists over cocktails and begin ascribing them an underserved humanity while conveniently forgetting their murderous friends would slit their throats in a New York minute.
Bob Rae “Nasrallah was an extraordinarily influential figure in the whole region, the whole of the Middle East”
IDF soldiers entered southern Lebanon as part of a ground assault on Monday night while the conflict with Hezbollah continued to escalate increasingly, Israel’s military confirmed the operation during the early hours of Tuesday morning.
“The IDF began limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbollah terrorist targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon,” Israel’s military said.
It added that the IDF will be carrying out “a methodical plan set out by the General Staff and the Northern Command, which soldiers have trained and prepared for in recent months.”
⚡️#Israeli Armoured Units are now invading #Lebanon in a full scale invasion.
Al-Mayadeen correspondent: "#Hezbollah will probably allow the IDF to advance a few kilometers into #Lebanon to lure them in and ambush them, like they did in 2006."
Police in riot gear. Occupied buildings. Thousands of arrests. Distrupted classrooms. An atmosphere of fear and campuses crisscrossed with encampments.
In the year since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, universities across the globe were riven with protests, vigilante mobs, and antisemitism and Islamophobia investigations. Now, college officials are cracking down and trying to avoid similar scenes as the conflict approaches its one-year anniversary. Universities are announcing measures they say will keep campus safe and uninterrupted this year, after last year’s Israel-Palestine turmoil.
But activists say new restrictions on protest rights only further their resolve.
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, was killed last night in an Israeli air strike on Beirut, as part of its ongoing offensive in southern Lebanon.
Nasrallah’s death exposes the glaring omission in most of the media coverage of the conflict. Few outlets seem willing to recognise the fact that Israel faces an annihilationist threat from the Iran-backed terrorist group and its Islamist allies.
In previous posts I had highlighted some of the family members of American victims of Hezbollah terror back in the 1980s asking why the United States could not have done what Israel just did. Obviously we could have.
And administration after administration chose not to.
Almost imperceptibly from Canada, the countries of the comparatively advanced world whose politics are more or less democratic, are edging back from their infatuation with the woke and racially atomized and extreme green, left. The shocking wave of antisemitism that freakishly arose after the barbarous assault of Hamas on Israel last October, has largely subsided. The campuses are quiet, the public is tired of having streets disrupted by ridiculous demonstrations proclaiming that the Jews have no right to be in the land of Israel, where they have been for more than 5,000 years, and the burdens of political correctness are becoming insufferable to the sensible majority of most western countries.
This seems a touch optimistic but I am curious about the turnouts on the upcoming anniversary of Oct 7.
I don’t bother going downtown where most of these demo’s take place but that’s due primarily to traffic and urban decay.
Missisaugastan is a place I avoid and Brampton may as well be in South Asia as far as I am concerned.
The crowds of the first Hamas support rallies in Canada may not be matched again but that doesn’t mean the Mohammedans and their useful idiot allies have had a change of heart.
Last week, on a single day of an undeclared war, one of the protagonists suffered more than 500 deaths and more than 1,600 wounded, a total of over 2,200 casualties.
The country in question has a population of 5 million. Now imagine if that casualty figure had occurred in a country with a population of, say, 90 million; the proportionate casualty figure would work out at a staggering 34,000.
Well, as you guessed, the first country mentioned is Lebanon, which has been dragged into a war on behalf of the second country, that is to say the Islamic Republic of Iran.
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis suggested Sunday that Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon have been “immoral” and disproportionate, saying its military domination has gone beyond the rules of war.
Francis was asked en route home from Belgium about Israel’s targeted killing of one of Hezbollah’s founding members, Hassan Nasrallah. Friday’s strike in Beirut targeted an area greater than a city block and reduced several residential buildings to rubble, and at least six other deaths have been confirmed.
The Israeli Air Force launched airstrikes Sunday against infrastructure in western Yemen that the military said was used by the Houthis, in a response to recent ballistic missile attacks on the Jewish state carried out by the Iran-backed group.
It was only the second-ever Israeli strike in Yemen, after in July, the IAF conducted an attack on Yemen’s Hodeidah port after a drone hit Tel Aviv, killing a man in his apartment.
The strike in Yemen on Sunday was more extensive compared to the one in July. It also came as the IAF had struck targets in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and allegedly in Syria during the day, amid a multifront war.
The main power plant in Hudaydah, Yemen
All the oil infrastructure is gone too. Back to the stone age for f*cking with Israel!
In June, Hashem Safieddine, the possible heir to the now dead Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, threatened Israel by saying, “Let (the enemy) prepare himself to cry and wail.”
But for quite some time, and especially since October 7, Israel has not been content to just mourn its dead, to watch idly as bombs rain down on its cities, or to be the world’s scapegoat for all the troubles in the Middle East.
At McGill and Concordia they are literally announcing that they will celebrate October 7th.
That’s what this is and that’s who they are.
Shame on anyone still pretending that these are just normal people exercising their right to protest. pic.twitter.com/pWo2KSpvCe
For decades he was the face of the Iran-backed group, and once claimed victory over Israel, but his death in an airstrike shows none of its enemies in the Middle East are safe, writes an expert on the region
“The Israeli military warship which assaulted our infrastructure, look at it … burning.” As the camera cut to footage of the burning warship in the sea opposite Beirut, the words of Hezbollah’s secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, in a televised speech during the 2006 war between Israel and the Iran-backed group cemented his image as a larger-than-life leader. He was the strongest paramilitary and political actor in Lebanon for more than three decades and his killing by Israel is a transformative moment for the group and will have repercussions across the region.
The plan had been years in the making, the target one of the most famous figures in the Arab world, and one of the most hated in Israel.
In the 11 days before it was implemented, Israel had conducted a military campaign of metronomic efficiency in Lebanon, each phase meticulously and ruthlessly executed, each blow delivered as Hezbollah was still staggering from the one that preceded it.
But then, at dusk on Friday, came the heaviest blow of them all — one that may forever cripple Hezbollah, weaken Iranian influence and potentially even reshape the Middle East itself.
Only one word captures the vibe in the West following Israel’s 
