Joe Adam George: By killing Nasrallah, Israel shows the West that force is all terrorists understand

Strategies of maximum pressure are required to secure lasting peace in the Middle East

A phenomenal 10-day military operation by Israel against the terrorist group Hezbollah came to a climax last week with the targeted assassination of its leader and secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah.

Starting with the alleged mass detonation of booby-trapped wireless communication devices used by Hezbollah terrorists, Israeli forces took advantage of the ensuing chaos to launch an airstrike that killed the terrorist group’s top commanders who had gathered in Beirut for a meeting. Such was the audaciousness, precision, and ingenuity of Israel’s relentless attacks that they appear to have rattled Hezbollah’s patron-in-chief, Ali Khamenei, in Iran.