Nasrallah the Chicken-Killer: A Laughingstock for the Arabs

Hassan Nasrallah had been planning a colossal attack on Israel to take revenge for Israel’s killing of Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s second-in-command, on July 30. It was set to begin at 5 a.m. on August 25, with Hezbollah launching both drones and 6,000 missiles at northern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and several key military bases. Instead, the IDF, following the Talmudic injunction which advises that “if someone is coming to kill you, rise up and kill him first,” rose up even earlier than Hezbollah’s bezonians, and sent 100 fighter jets to attack and destroy thousands of Hezbollah missiles on their launch pads, as well as thousands of drones. The large-scale Hezbollah attack was foiled, though the Shi’a terror group did manage later in the morning to fire 300 missiles into Israel, that did very little damage, and killed only one serviceman.

What’s worse, among the targets Hezbollah claimed to have hit were some chicken farms in the Galilee. That claim produced gales of merriment and expressions of scorn from fellow Arabs — Sunnis mostly — who mocked Hezbollah for its pathetic performance, focusing on its claims about killing chickens. More on how Hezbollah made a mockery of itself can be found here: “‘Nasrallah the chicken hunter’: Arab world mocks Hezbollah over foiled attack,” by Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, August 25, 2024:

Following a tense morning where the IDF reportedly intercepted a wide missile attack from Hezbollah planned for the significant Shi’i commemoration day of Arba’iniyat Al-Hussain, the Iranian proxy claimed in a formal statement that all rockets and drones that were planned to take part in the attack were indeed operated and pledged to have ended its operations for the day.

Some Hezbollah aficionados lauded the attack, sharing images of damaged houses and small fires that erupted as a result of the attack, while others claimed in a conspiratorial tone that this was an “Implicit coordinated response between the two parties,” adding: “initial response to Israel a chicken coop was destroyed, killing a number of chickens and chicks and breaking thousands of eggs. Damn you scoundrels, you and the Iranian Houthis, you laugh at the Arab peoples, you and the Zionists are two sides of the same coin, implementing one project and one goal.”…

One Kuwaiti user named Fahed uploaded a picture of a dead chicken, adding cynically: “Allahu Akbar! Hassan Nasrallah’s response! Hezbollah’s response! The number of chicken injuries rose to 27 chickens, 5 of them are critically injured, with first-degree burns to the wings and beak, after the chicken pen was targeted in response to the assassination of Fouad Shukr. He says ‘Our missiles are accurate!’”

A parody account named after Syrian tyrant Bashar Al-Assad wrote “A video showing the result of Hezbollah’s response to Israel, where dozens of Israeli chickens were killed and wounded. Is it reasonable that my ally Hezbollah would respond to the assassination of the party’s top military commander by killing chickens? I will now call my friend Hassan Nasrallah to explain to him that Israel is a murderer and assassinated his leaders, not a midwife who delivered them so that he could slaughter chickens on this occasion.”

A Syrian user named Khaled added: “The chicken massacre was not a coincidence, but a strategic plan! The goal? To prevent the opponents and enemies of the ‘resistance’ from gloating after every bombing and saying ‘They didn’t even hurt a chicken.’ Hezbollah finished off the chickens and chicks with premeditation and deliberation, in order to deprive us of the pleasure of joking and mocking its response and missiles!”…

They had a field day, those many Arabs from all over the Arab world who laughed and sneered and joked and slapped their thighs at Hezbollah’s expense. Muslim Arabs share a “shame culture.” They cannot bear to be mocked. And here they were — both Nasrallah, and Hezbollah — finding themselves laughed to scorn, and by fellow Arabs. Such ridicule! Such derision! They must be mortified.

I think they deserve it. Don’t you?