As these lines are written, a man in a white turban with a thin voice tries out his villainous expression, hammering: "We are strong! We are invincible! Patience, we shall prevail! We shall be even stronger." He boasts about having targeted Netanyahu’s bedroom, making him "die of fear." If he were dead, we would know. Victory cannot abide metaphors. Instilling fear is one thing; erasing entire villages, wiping out all trace of past, present, and future life is another. The war that has begun was clearly unequal from the start, and Lebanon—already bled dry by deceptive bravado wrapped in poems and quotations—was not prepared for it. Nor was Hezbollah, which claims to have entered this war preemptively, the lethal equivalent of an anticipatory indictment. Now Israel claims to have proof that a ‘Oct. 7-style invasion’ was being prepared on...
As these lines are written, a man in a white turban with a thin voice tries out his villainous expression, hammering: "We are strong! We are invincible! Patience, we shall prevail! We shall be even stronger." He boasts about having targeted Netanyahu’s bedroom, making him "die of fear." If he were dead, we would know. Victory cannot abide metaphors. Instilling fear is one thing; erasing entire villages, wiping out all trace of past, present, and future life is another. The war that has begun was clearly unequal from the start, and Lebanon—already bled dry by deceptive bravado wrapped in poems and quotations—was not prepared for it. Nor was Hezbollah, which claims to have entered this war preemptively, the lethal equivalent of an anticipatory indictment. Now Israel claims to have proof that a ‘Oct. 7-style invasion’ was being...
