Matters Of Fact

Sent to the Boston Globe March 28, 2026 Dear Editor: Substantial and virtually inexplicable omissions in the article "Hezbollah vows to keep its weapons after Israeli strikes" create a highly distorted picture. They begin with the very headline, which omits the facts that Hezbollah has repeatedly insisted it will never disarm and the Israeli strikes were in response to continual Hezbollah attacks in violation of the so-called ceasefire. Also omitted is the fact that Hezbollah having any weapons violates Lebanese sovereignty, previous ceasefire agreements and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, passed two decades ago. The article mentions a statistic about the number of people allegedly killed in Lebanon but fails to mention reliable evidence indicates almost all those killed were terrorist, with very few civilian casualties. As usual, the article also fails to mention that Hezbollah is a genocidal terrorist organization. Sincerely, Alan Stein

 Dear Editor: I had to laugh at Naim Qassem, the head of the Hezbollah terrorist group, saying Israeli troops had to withdraw from Lebanese territory in full by February 18. Under binding United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, passed in 2006, Hezbollah had to withdraw from any part of Lebanon south of the Litani River and be disarmed. This was a followup to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559, adopted in 2004, calling for the disarmament of Hezbollah and all the other terror groups and militias in Lebanon. According to the article "Hezbollah chief: Israel must fully withdraw from Lebanon by Feb. 18" (MetroWest Daily News, February 17),  Qassem said Israel "had 'no pretext' to maintain a military presence in any post in southern Lebanon." Perhaps Qassem should look in a mirror. Hezbollah has had no pretext to maintain its presence as a terrorist army anywhere in Lebanon since 2004, and if Hezbollah wasn't there and constantly attacki...

Dear editor: On July 27, Hezbollah launched an Iranian-supplied rocket from southern Lebanon, murdering 12 children and teenagers playing soccer in the Israeli town of Majdal Shams. According to the August 3 article, "Hezbollah forces resume steady rocket, artillery fire against Israel," UNIFIL, the United Nations "peacekeeping force" in Lebanon, told Reuters it "had not investigated the incident" because the Israeli town "is outside its mandated area of operation. The rocket was fired from the Lebanese town of Chebaa. Like thousands of other rockets Hezbollah has fired at Israel since October 7, it was fired from south of the Litani River. UNIFIL was expanded and strengthened after the war Hezbollah started in 2006 and given the mandate to ensure no armed militias, including Hezbollah, had any presence south of the Litani River in southern Lebanon. This was to be a prelude to the official Lebanese army being the only armed force in all of Lebanon. To...