Israel responds to Beirut's drone attack on Netanyahu's home

"I love the smell of cyclonite in the morning"

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) bombed the southern areas of Beirut and northern Gaza on Sunday, putting at least a temporary putting the kibosh on ceasefire hopes in the war against the terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah. 

Israel's response came after about 70 rockets were launched at the Jewish State from Lebanon. Many of the rockets were intercepted and destroyed, but several landed and led to fires, the IDF said.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on X that it is "working to destroy terrorist infrastructures of the Hezbollah terrorist organization," and it aimed at Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters and an underground weapons workshop in Beirut.

This follows a drone attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in the northern Israeli town of Caesare on Saturday. Gideon Sa’ar, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet, said he holds Lebanon responsible for this attack.

“From the territory of a U.N. member state — Lebanon — an assassination attempt was made on the prime minister of Israel,” Sa’ar wrote on X. "The fact that these attacks were carried out by an Iranian branch — Hezbollah — does not absolve Lebanon of its responsibility."

Netanyahu called it an assassination attempt and vowed that there would be a "heavy price" for such attacks. Hopefully, he will go after the Ayatollah, who is currently in hiding in spite of his love of death more than life claim.

"The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake." Bibi said in a post on X. "This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future."

In the Gaza Strip, at least 87 people were killed in Israeli strikes on on the town of Beit Lahiya, according to the territory’s health minister. None of those killed took Christians or Jews as friends, as recommended in Islamic scripture.

Tor Wennesland, the United Nation's special coordinator for the oxymoronically named Middle East Peace Process, said on Sunday that "the nightmare in Gaza is intensifying" as the number of civilian casualties keeps rising. He said "humanitarian aid must be delivered unimpeded," amid reports that not enough food [or ammo] is being let in the Gaza Strip. 

Israel has been planning a reprisal attack on Iran for three weeks, after Tehran fired ballistic missiles at Israel at the beginning of October. U.S. intelligence reports detailing some of the Israeli preparations were leaked in recent days because the Biden-Harris administration don't want Israel to win.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has said that Israel's eventual military response to Iran would be lethal, precise and surprising . . . on Tuesday?

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UN "human rights" investigator pushes "killing Israelis" NGO states

Sweet-faced Francesca Albanese loves her some Palestinian terrorists and says they have the right to kill Israelis, [code for 'Jews']. She cloaks her anti-Semitism in the guise of the Palestinian's "right to resist," and to "exist as a people," but anyone with an open mind knows what she means.

“Palestinians’ right to resist is inherent to their right to exist as a people,” the UN's “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967,” tweeted. “An unlawful act of resistance does not make the resistance unlawful.”

Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch NGO, has called on United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to condemn “ugly incitement to violence” by a UN official. Whether he does so is highly doubtful.

Albanese defended Palestinian terrorists last Monday after a ceasefire was put into effect following three days of fighting between the IDF and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The latter group fired about 900 rockets aimed at Israel.

The IDF launched Operation Breaking Dawn on Friday in response to the ongoing rockets fired by PIJ that had gone on for several days and an imminent threat of attack by the Islamic terror organization on Israeli civilians, acts that Albanese say are justified.

Within the first 180 seconds of the operation, fighter jets and drones targeted and killed 15 Islamic Jihad operatives, including Taysir al-Jabari, commander of the Islamic Jihad’s northern division. Evidently, the fact that the IDF is more effective in eliminating military targets that initiated the conflict, than the PIJ is in eliminating civilian Jews, upsets Albanese.

“This terror organization (PIJ) is now under attack. We won’t allow any organization—not here and not in the North and not in Judea and Samaria—to harm the sovereignty of the State of Israel. We are at the height of a justified operation, aimed at protecting the Israeli people,” IDF Chief Aviv Kochavi stated Saturday night.

The next day, Tor Wennesland, a career diplomat for the UN as a "Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process" condemned the assassination of Jabari, a terrorist leader, saying in a statement that he was “deeply concerned by the ongoing escalation between Palestinian militants and Israel, including the targeted killing of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader inside Gaza.”

Taysir al-Jabari was responsible for multiple terror attacks against Israeli Jews, so targeting him was a good thing, unless you're an anti-Semite.

“The continuing escalation is very dangerous. The launching of rockets must cease immediately, and I call on all sides to avoid further escalation,” Wennesland said.

On Monday morning, Albanese, who evidently knows nothing about the history of Israel and the Old Testament, defended Palestinians’ “right to resist” Israeli “occupation.” The Jews have been in Israel before there was Islam and the Palestinians.

“Palestinians’ right to resist is inherent to their right to exist as a people,” she tweeted. “An unlawful act of resistance does not make the resistance unlawful. An unlawful act of an unlawful occupation makes the occupation more unlawful (and the list on the desk of the [International Criminal Court] Prosecutor longer).”

Neuer responded, writing that “after Palestinian terrorists just attacked Israel with 1,000 rockets, the UN Human Rights Council’s Francesca Albanese says Palestinians have a ‘right to resist.’ As she knows, for all Palestinian groups—Hamas, Islamic Jihad or Fatah—’resistance’ means killing Israelis.”

He then called on Guterres “to strongly condemn this ugly incitement to violence by a UN official.”

“The context makes it worse,” he added. “Albanese has often compared the Palestinians to Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and implied that Israelis are Nazis,” he said.

We call on @antonioguterres @mbachelet & @FVillegasARG to strongly condemn this ugly incitement to violence by a UN official.

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Albanese is just one of many United Nations officials who are fervently anti-Semitic and wear it proudly on their sleeves. What's most disturbing is how anti-Semitism has become acceptable cocktail conversation.

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