The mostly defunct discount chain KMart created a cultural icon with its “Blue Light Special.” The Blue Light Special was an in-store sales promotion that was available for a short period of time and only during business hours. It was advertised using a rotating blue light and announced over the store’s public address system with the phrase “Attention, Kmart shoppers!” The IDF has essentially borrowed this gimmick to get at a large store of Hezbollah money that it can’t reach via airstrikes.
Earlier today, I posted on Israel’s assault on Hezbollah’s shadow economy. This economy is used to support Hezbollah’s fighters, to provide a death benefit to families of deceased terrorists, and for the social programs Hezbollah hid behind before becoming an open proxy of the Iranian regime. This operation requires cash because Hezbollah doesn’t have access to the international banking system;…
