Hezbollah has confirmed that its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was among the hundreds of Lebanese killed in Israel’s massive bombardment of a suburb of Beirut last night.

Israel’s action will achieve nothing apart from teaching his successor, and leaders of other groups and countries labelled as terrorist by western governments, several lessons:

• That Israel, and the West standing squarely behind it, do not play by any known rules of engagement, and that their opponents must do likewise. The current restraint from Hezbollah that has been so baffling western pundits will become a thing of the past.
• That Israel is not interested in compromise, only escalation, and that this is a fight to death — not just against Israel but against the West that sponsors Israel.
• That Israel’s ideological extremism — its Jewish supremacism, and its endless craving for Lebensraum — must be met with even greater Shia-inspired extremism.

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