Jared Kushner, in a lengthy post on X on Sunday, praised Israeli operations against Hezbollah and said the Sept. 27 assassination of the terrorist group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was “the most important day in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords breakthrough.”
“I have spent countless hours studying Hezbollah and there is not an expert on earth who thought that what Israel has done to decapitate and degrade them was possible,” the son-in-law and ex-senior adviser to former President Donald Trump said.
Kushner took aim at the Biden administration and others, who have called for a cessation to hostilities against Hezbollah.
“Anyone who has been calling for a ceasefire in the north is wrong. There is no going back for Israel. They cannot afford now to not finish the job and completely dismantle the arsenal that has been aimed at them. They will never get another chance,” he said.
He said eliminating Hezbollah is not only Israel’s fight, noting that more than 40 years ago, the Lebanese group killed 241 U.S. military personnel, including 220 Marines, in the single deadliest day for the Marines since Iwo Jima in World War II.
In the last six weeks, Israel killed “as many terrorists on the U.S. list of wanted terrorists as the U.S. has done in the last 20 years,” he continued.
One of them, Ibrahim Aqil, masterminded the 1983 killing of those Marines.
Destroying Hezbollah is significant because “Iran is now fully exposed,” Kushner said.
Although Iran has weak air defenses, its nuclear facilities have not been destroyed because Hezbollah with its missiles was “a loaded gun pointed at Israel,” he said.
With the killing of Nasrallah and 16 top commanders within nine days, “I started thinking about a Middle East without Iran’s fully loaded arsenal aimed at Israel,” said Kushner.
While Iran is tough when risking the lives of its proxies, it is more circumspect about risking its own, he wrote.
“Iran is reeling ..., insecure and unsure how deeply its own intelligence has been penetrated,” he said. “Failing to take full advantage of this opportunity to neutralize the threat is irresponsible.”
Kushner described Iranian leadership as stuck in the past while its neighbors, the Gulf states, look to the future. “They are becoming dynamic magnets for talent and investment while Iran falls further behind. As the Iranian proxies and threats dissipate, regional security and prosperity will rise for Christians, Muslims and Jews alike,” he said.
“This is a moment to stand behind the peace-seeking nation of Israel and the large portion of the Lebanese who have been plagued by Hezbollah and who want to return to the times when their country was thriving, and Beirut a cosmopolitan city. The main issue between Lebanon and Israel is Iran; otherwise, there is a lot of benefit for the people of both countries from working together,” Kushner said.
