The decline and fall of Hezballah

 Ed Morrissey:

So much for Iran's encirclement strategy in the Middle East, if these reports turn out to be accurate. Not only did Iran lose much of its advanced air defenses in the Israeli strike over the weekend, their forward proxy army may collapse soon as its terror troops head for Syria. Arabic media report mass Hezbollah desertions in the face of a determined IDF ground campaign, and nearly no effective communications between command and field units:

After over a year of launching aerial attacks against northern Israel, Hezbollah has reportedly begun to crack as the Iran-backed terror group has experienced a wave of desertions, sources told the Arabic independent online newspaper Elaph in a report published Sunday. ...

Those defecting, according to the source, are not reporting when summoned by senior terrorists and not waiting in their assigned locations. Other terrorists have reportedly fled to Syrian territory with their families, attempting to avoid any confrontation with Israel at close range. ... 

As a result of combatants abandoning their posts, Hezbollah is now reportedly struggling to communicate with its men on the ground. There are also fears that the defections, now mainly a phenomenon in southern Lebanon, will spread to terrorists throughout the country, the source claimed.


The confrontations on the southern border and escape by Hezbollah combatants have reportedly left the group struggling to recruit new terrorists to fuel its fight against Israel.

 To no one's great shock, the loss of thousands of command personnel to a rigged-beeper operation does not instill confidence in command. Neither do continuous and precise Israeli strikes on key command and finance sites in Beirut. The Israelis have clearly read Hezbollah's mail for a long time, and potential recruits have to wonder how long it will take to find them if they join up -- not to mention how Hezbollah plans to pay them. 

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The Israeli response to Hezballah was genius.  It destroyed their unit cohesion and their leadership.  It has made their ability to recruit replacements difficult at best.  By counter-attacking in Iran it has set back the Islamic religious bigots.  Iran is now more vulnerable than ever to Israeli attacks.

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