Why is it that whenever a terrorist leader dies, the media rushes to gloss over the terrorism? With the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, they are at it again.

Within two weeks, Israel has systematically and deliberately decimated Hezbollah. This is both a triumph of Israeli intelligence and planning, and an excellent thing for the world at large. The neutering of Hezbollah was so precise, far-thinking, and focused that it will be remembered (and meme’d) forever. The idea that Israel would actually create a pager company and produce real pagers, waiting for the day when Hezbollah would need pagers, is just a mind-blowing exercise in foresight and patience. The walkie-talkie explosions the next day were just the icing on that cake. But after that, Hezbollah was forced to communicate in person – leading Israel to conduct a hit on top leaders and wiping them all out at once.

This left Hassan Nasrallah almost completely alone at the top of the Hezbollah pyramid. Well, after yesterday, not anymore. While Benjamin Netanyahu was in the United States, giving his speech at the UN, Nasrallah made a move to the bunker at Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut. Once Israeli intelligence confirmed that he was there, the order for the airstrike was given. And BOOM. I mean BOOOOOOOM.

Wild Footage showing the Series of Israeli Airstrikes against the Hezbollah Command Bunker in Southern Beirut. pic.twitter.com/hVtQvd8H4K

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 27, 2024

While Israel assumed that they got Nasrallah (because look at that BOOM), it took hours for whoever was left to issue any kind of official confirmation. It isn’t that Hezbollah is officially gone – it’s that whoever IS left wasn’t exactly in the top tier of the brain trust.

Think about it. Hezbollah is now being run by people who until a week ago weren't considered by them important enough to have a beeper.

— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) September 27, 2024

Hezbollah on Saturday confirmed the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah, after Israel said he was killed in an airstrike on Beirut.

The terror group praised Nasrallah’s leadership and vowed to avenge his death as it continued its fight against Israel.

“The leadership of Hezbollah pledges to the most supreme, sacred, and dearest martyr in our journey, filled with sacrifices and martyrs, that it will continue its fight to confront the enemy, in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defense of Lebanon and its steadfast and honorable people,” the statement read.

The Israel Defense Forces announced late Friday that Nasrallah, 64, was in a bunker beneath the group’s main headquarters when Israeli warplanes “leveled six buildings” in a targeted attack that also took out several other Hezbollah higher-ups.

The IDF said it also neutralized Muhammad Ali Ismail — the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon — as well as his deputy, Hussein Ahmad Ismail, and other “commanders and operatives” who attended the meeting.

On Saturday, Iranian media reported that Iran Revolutionary Guards’ deputy commander Abbas Nilforoushan was also killed in the Beirut strikes.

But even before there was official confirmation of Nasrallah’s death, both Lebanese and Syrian civilians were celebrating in the streets.

The media, however, was taking a DIFFERENT tack. They just can’t help it.

This is exactly the headline I’d expect from the news organization that happily shared an office building with Hamas. pic.twitter.com/QFLg1sNF0A

— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) September 28, 2024

Ah, here we go with that “austere religious scholar” bit again! It never fails! The media just cannot help themselves, and they always spin the deaths of actual terror leaders into some kind of loss for humanity.

Just to keep track, here’s how mainstream outlets have eulogized the leaders of Hezbollah, Iran, and ISIS

“Charismatic and Shrewd”

“Hardline prosecutor”

“Most revered military leader”

“Austere religious scholar” pic.twitter.com/2yWhKbW4tO

— John Hasson (@SonofHas) September 28, 2024

The Telegraph called Nasrallah “fiery” and “a pragmatist.” Yes, they did.

Wearing the black turban of a Sayyed, or a descendent of the Prophet Mohammad, Nasrallah used his addresses to rally Hezbollah’s base but also to deliver carefully calibrated threats, often wagging his finger as he did so.

He became secretary general of Hezbollah in 1992 aged just 35, the public face of a once shadowy group founded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in 1982 to fight Israeli occupation forces.

Israel killed his predecessor, Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi, in a helicopter attack. Nasrallah led Hezbollah when its guerrillas finally drove Israeli forces from southern Lebanon in 2000, ending an 18-year occupation.

A fiery orator viewed as an extremist in the United States and much of the West, he is also considered a pragmatist compared to the militants who dominated Hezbollah after its founding in 1982, during Lebanon’s civil war.

Despite the power he wields, Nasrallah has lived largely in hiding for fear of an Israeli assassination.

Tablet Magazine helpfully compiled a timeline on their Instagram page of the history of Hezbollah – and what terror Hassan Nasrallah was responsible for over the course of FORTY YEARS.

The death of Nasrallah could and should be a turning point for Lebanon. They have a chance to throw off the interference of Iran via the terror control of Hezbollah – IF the Lebanese government can seize the initiative, free of possible retribution from a decimated terror group. Hezbollah did not control Lebanon – it was simply one of the largest factions in the country. It never controlled the government. The government of Lebanon, if it is smart, should reach out to Israel immediately and tell them “we want Hezbollah gone, and we want peace with you,” and then work with Israel to root out the last of the group and expel them out of the country. What a game-changer THAT would be! The media would sob about it, because apparently they love terrorists and giving them glowing, ass-kissing coverage even when they are DEAD.

No one should regret the death of Hassan Nasrallah unless you side with terrorists. After all, no less than Ayatollah Khamenei is posting on X that Nasrallah has received “the reward of martyrdom.” If only the ayatollah could receive such a reward himself.

Featured image: Hassan Nasrallah in 2019 in Iran, via Wikimedia Commons attributed to Khamenei.ir, cropped, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)