Israel’s counterterrorism actions against Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists in the past fortnight have been among the most brilliant, the most precise, and the most well justified in history. Let’s hope Israelis can finish the job with the same level of highly targeted effectiveness.

Remember how Israel reached this point: Nearly a year ago, last Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists crossed Israel’s southern border from Gaza and murdered some 1,200 innocent people in a heinous, unprovoked massacre. Hezbollah operates from Israel’s northern border, in Lebanon and Syria. Hamas and Hezbollah are sponsored by the same evil regime in Iran, but they are two separate organizations. Hezbollah is Shiite, and Hamas is Sunni. Hamas claims, absurdly, to represent the interests of a historically nebulous group called Palestinians. Hezbollah is only secondarily or even tertiarily interested in the “Palestinian cause,” instead being a more broadly Islamist movement against the West.