Most outlets failed to mention he was a brutal terrorist who killed scores of Americans, Israelis, and innocent civilians across the Middle East.
Following Hassan Nasrallah’s death at the hands of an Israeli airstrike, mainstream media outlets portrayed the now-former Hezbollah leader as an erudite “father figure,” a “moral compass,” a “savior,” and a “roly-poly figure” who “empowered” Lebanon’s “downtrodden.”
The vast majority failed to mention that he was a brutal terrorist leader who killed scores of Americans, Israelis, and innocent civilians across the Middle East.
Nasrallah rose to the top of the terror organization in February 1992. A month later, Hezbollah operatives killed 29 people in a suicide bombing attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. The terror group’s subsequent 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires killed 85.
In 1983, one year after Nasrallah helped found Hezbollah, the terror organization murdered 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors in its bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut. The attack’s planners became commanders under Nasrallah, who died a rich man, carrying a net worth of $250 million thanks mostly to illicit drug smuggling.
Most of those details were left out of lengthy obituaries published in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Associated Press.
