
Hassan Nasrallah was not some brave, selfless leader of the resistance, as many South African supporters of Hezbollah and Hamas would like us to believe. Rather, the now departed leader of the terrorist organisation Hezbollah was a brutal warlord, terrorist, proponent of genocide and enemy of a stable, free society.
The Media Review Network, the EFF, and the ANC have attempted to whitewash Nasrallah’s bloody legacy, painting him as a resister against the bogeyman of Zionism.
The assassination of Nasrallah was legal. It followed the rules of proportionality, minimised collateral damage, and followed international law. On top of all of this, his death is a victory for stability in the Middle East. Finally, the warlord who has held Lebanon in his capricious, iron grip is dead.
Since the 1980s, Hezbollah participated in the destabilisation of Lebanon during its civil war, seizing control over the southern portion of the country. It used its power to actively oppress non-Shia Muslims. Lebanon was once one of the most important lands for Christianity. But Hezbollah’s insistence that Christians live under Shariah and face pressure to convert has turned one of the last bastions of Christianity in the Middle East into a terror state.
While de facto ruling southern Lebanon, Hezbollah has used its extracted wealth and power not to rule justly, but to wage a disastrous war against Israel. It has used a host country as a staging ground to fight its foolish and fanatical war against a country that just wants to be left alone.
Yet, Hezbollah and Nasrallah cannot abandon its hatred against the Jewish state, as its founding principles are built on the destruction of Israel and the expulsion and elimination of Jews.
Nasrallah has been quoted calling Jews “Allah’s most cowardly and avaricious creatures”. He is a famous Holocaust denier, claiming that the “Jews invested the legend of Nazi atrocities”.
Nasrallah was a puppet of Iran, and a part of the network of proxy terror groups that Iran’s theocratic regime uses to destabilise its enemies in the Middle East. Not just to fight Israel, but to oppose Sunni Islamic states as well. He has called for Iran to lead an Islamic State across the Middle East. A goal for Hezbollah as a whole.
Hezbollah has waged an illegal war against Israel for decades, firing countless rockets directed at civilians. Very different from Israel’s concerted effort to only target Hezbollah military targets (made harder by the terrorist organisations use of civilians as human shields). Nasrallah celebrated the brutal slaughter and mass rape of Israeli civilians on October 7th, and has been continually escalating attacks on Israel since then.
It is moronic to believe that Israel does not have a right to eliminate such an evil man. A man whose very existence threatens Israel’s safety.
Israel does have a right to exist. It has a right to defend itself. And its people have a right to not be faced with the threat of bombardment and invasion by terrorists and antisemites.
Nasrallah’s death is a breath of fresh air for the Middle East. Israel has eliminated an enemy of regional stability. And now the region can start to heal from his scourge.