Hey I'm Noah Weisman and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense

Historically fascinating and often misunderstood events and stories linked to Israeli history we were supposed to release only one episode this week,

the start of a three-part series about that horrible day and the horrible year that

followed, but this is the Middle East where things that change faster than you can process them.

And so this is the second episode we're releasing this week, which will explore the fittingly

named Operation New Order, Miv Tseh said her Hadash, which may have just upended the balance of power in the Middle East.

This past Friday, as Beebe Nesinjaro addressed the United Nations, the Israeli Air Force was preparing

to hit a target that had eluded them for decades. Decades.

This target was much stronger than Hamas, much wealthier and better equipped than Hamas.

And unlike Hamas, it took direct orders from Iran.

This was different.

This target was behind the deaths of countless people around the world, including 12 beautiful

innocent children playing soccer on a balmy Saturday night

this past July. Maybe you even forgot about that already because of how much has gone on since then.

This target had smelled Israel's weakness after the horror

of October 7th and began raining down rockets on Israel's north a day later, sending

tens of thousands of Israelis into exile and effectively shrinking

Israel's borders. People don't think about that enough. Israel's borders

caved in. Israel became smaller as a result of this enemy. This target was

Hassan Nastrala who led the Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah since 1992.

For 32 years, he and his organization terrorized the world.

In 1983 alone, they murdered 319 Americans and two massive bombings in Lebanon. They hijacked planes. They bombed embassies.

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