On the contrary, experience has shown that when Israel pursues a policy of taking out the heads of terror organizations, attacks against it decline. Basically it’s okay to send little Hamed or Achmed out to blow himself up, but the big boys don’t have much of an appetite for martyrdom.
“...but the big boys don’t have much of an appetite for martyrdom.”
That’s a fact.
I'm afraid thats certainly not true when it comes to Hezbollah leaders who have been killed.
Consider history :
On Feb. 16, 1992 Israel killed Hezbollah leader Sheik Abbas Musawi. Hezbollah took revenge in several forms :
* 5 days of deadly rocket attacks against northern Israel.
* On March 7, Ehud Sadan, chief of security at the Israeli Embassy in Ankara killed by a Hezbollah car bomb.
* Ten days after that, Hezbollah men blew up the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 people and wounding more than 220.
* Two years later, in July of 1994, a suicide bomber struck at the offices of a Jewish community organization in Buenos Aires, killing 85.
The idea that Hezbollah will not try and retaliate against Mugniyah's killing is bizarre.
Didn’t they have a string of “leaders” they took out a couple of years ago? I remember they would replace one and the next one wasn’t very long on the job. Seems like it was about the time of Yassin. Hope they keep it up.
“Basically it’s okay to send little Hamed or Achmed out to blow himself up, but the big boys don’t have much of an appetite for martyrdom.”
Funny how that works.
Islamists have to walk a thin line.
They want to seek revenge on the West, and implement just enough destruction to keep the Western Left on their side,
but not enough to alienate the left and get them to stop protecting them,
and unleashing the hell that the people with common sense would unleash.