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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Hezbollah - Party of God

Monday, October 7, 2024

Written by Laurence F Sanford, Senior Analyst ASCF

Categories: ASCF Articles

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Hezbollah, Party of God, is a Lebanese Islamic Shia terrorist organization serving as an Iranian proxy for the purpose of destroying Israel and Western Civilization.

Hezbollah is one of eight mortal hydra snakeheads controlled by the immortal snakehead Iran. According to Greek mythology, the hydra was a giant snake-like water creature with nine heads that harmed humans and livestock. If one of the mortal heads were cut off, several new heads would emerge from the wound. The hydra would die only by cutting off the one immortal head, which Heracles of Greek legend accomplished. Heracles then dipped his arrows in the hydra’s poisonous blood to be used against enemies in future conflicts. Unfortunately, his wife, Deianeira, accidentally caused his death with one of the arrows.

By cutting off the mortal heads of Hezbollah and Hamas, Israel has gained temporary relief. Iran is the immortal hydra-head and needs to be severed. Iran supports many other snakehead Islamic terror groups, including the Houthis.

Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed on Friday, September 27, in Beruit, Lebanon, in an Israeli air bombing. Nasrallah was 64 years old and had led Hezbollah since 1992. A Muslim cleric and a sayyid (a man who can trace his ancestry back to the Prophet Muhammad), Nasrallah preached “Death to America” and promised martyrs they would go to paradise. In Islamic lore, a martyr is met in paradise by 72 virgins.

Iranian hydra Hamas sucker-punched Israel in Gaza on October 7, 2023, with the slaughter, rape, torture, and hostage-taking of over 1,400 Israelis. Despite Israeli Defense Force (IDF) intelligence warnings that something was afoot in Gaza, Israeli leadership had taken no preventative action.

After October 7, 2023, Israeli leadership recognized that the thousands of rocket attacks on Israel from southern Lebanon by Hezbollah and from Gaza by Hamas were a prelude to another genocide attack. Israel evacuated 60,000 from northern Israel, with a total of 200,000 internally displaced throughout Israel.

A young Israeli female intelligence officer proposed a plan to cripple Hezbollah leadership. The Israeli leadership and military bought in. The plan was based on the premise that Hezbollah leadership feared Israeli intelligence penetration of its high-tech communication networks and, therefore, had resorted to using low-tech pager systems. A shipment of new pagers was distributed to thousands of Hezbollah leaders. The unanswered questions are who financed and ordered the pagers, what company, and where they were manufactured.

On September 17, thousands of pagers exploded simultaneously, killing several and maiming thousands. The following day, hundreds of Hezbollah walkie-talkies exploded. On September 27, the Hezbollah leader, Nasrallah, was dead.

The United Nations (U.N.), in its usual anti-Israel position, condemned the attacks. The U.N. said nothing about the thousands of rockets launched against Israel by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, under U.N. Security Resolution 1701 and the direction of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, had been tasked with maintaining security and stability throughout south Lebanon. One of the tasks was to prevent Hezbollah from building missile launchers. UNIFIL failed the task.

Guterres said it was important also to recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum and added, “The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.” Israel has banned him from entering the country.

Summary

Israel is fighting for its survival and Western Civilization. Yet Western democracies are not united in defending their own civilization. France is advocating the termination of support to Israel, and the United States is funneling millions of dollars to people who hate Western Civilization.

After the Israeli bombings in Lebanon against Hezbollah leaders, weapon stockpiles, and missile launchers, the US Government announced $157 million in aid to Lebanon, a country that is dysfunctional and effectively ruled by Hezbollah and a country that wishes “Death to America.” This brings the year total of U.S. aid to Lebanon to $385 million.

Action

1. Terminate all U.S. funding to terrorist organizations and governments who hate us. Money will not buy love. The list includes UNRWA, Gaza, Palestine Liberation Organization, and Lebanon.

2. Support “gray zone” activities to change the Iranian regime.

3. Support Israel and Ukraine, who are fighting for survival against tyrannies that hate the West.

4. Reform intelligence agencies to better monitor threats against the American homeland.

5. Rebuild the U.S. arsenal of democracy.

6. Reciprocity should be the foundation of U.S. foreign relations.

PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!

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