Gallant warns Lebanese

(JNS) — “Hezbollah and Iran have taken you, the residents of Lebanon, as their hostages.”

This was the message Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant sent to the Land of the Cedars on Thursday.

Gallant, a former IDF major-general, published the message in Arabic, saying, “Hezbollah and Iran have taken you as hostages for their narrow interests. If Hezbollah does not cease its aggression in the north, Israel will enter into a harsh war.”

The minister in his missive called the 2006 Second Lebanon War an “adventure” that Hezbollah undertook. Between 1,200 and 1,300 Lebanese died in the 2006 war, w...