Tisha B'Av and Hezbollah

Tonite and tomorrow are the Jewish holiday of Tisha B'Av, which commemorates a variety of Jewish national calamities, including the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. for more information on this holiday, see the article on the Aish site at http://www.aish.com/tishaBavOverview/tishaBavOverviewDefault/Tisha_BAv_-_The_Ninth_of_Av.asp

Arabs have notoriously sought to perpetrate major attacks against Israel on days of special religious significance -- the Yom Kippur War in 1973 being the most famous. Given the deeper than usual religious overtones to Israe's latest implacable enemy, the Islamist Hezbollah terrorist group, Israel should be expecting Hezbollah to perpetrate a "special surprise" against it tonite or tomorrow (e.g., missile attack on Tel Aviv, or chemical weapons attack closer in), which could lead to horrible loss of Israeli life, or an opportunity for Israel to eliminate some very meaningful targets and prove to the world who is the true enemy of civilization.

Let's pray that it is the latter. Lets also pray that the Western world, beyond the US, begins to realize the depth of evil and danger facing Judeo-Christian civilization at the hands of Islamists of all stripes, whether Sunnis or Shiites. Should we learn to live with the Iranians acquiring nuclear capabilities, as some of my friends (and much of Europe) suggest? I think not.