Hezbollah has been responding to zionist occupation and crimes continually, not only by fighting them whenever they stepped foot in Lebanon - and thereby completely neutralizing their sinister plans for that country, but also by providing all manner of assistance to Palestinian Resistance groups - from training to intelligence sharing and even noble martyrs such as shahid Fawzi Ayub.
Furthermore, there's kind of a self-defeating irony in your rhetoric question. Here's a Hezbollah member who was martyred after crossing the border to Occupied Palestine in order to confront the zionists, and you are implying that the same Hezbollah has been passive...? See the contradiction right there? If you wished to contrast Hezbollah's rank and file on the one hand and political leadership on the other, then be advised that you'd be quite alone in this endeavor, as nobody within Hezbollah sees it that way.
Now when it comes to how Hezbollah should react to this cowardly killing: as highlighted before, in the real world, war is not a matter of tit for tat strikes. Here's a few simple and well established facts you may have overlooked when asking that question:
- When a token Hamas member is assassinated by the zionists, Hamas never unleashes barrages of rockets on so-called Isra"el" either. Hamas reserves this sort of action to instances where zionist occupation forces commit significant, large scale and utterly provocative acts of violence against Palestinians, such as raiding the Al-Aqsa mosque during Ramadan prayers while expelling Palestinian civilians from their homes and then murdering 20 unarmed Palestinian protesters including 9 children. Not quite the same as the killing of a single Hamas member. And hence the perfectly natural, logical difference in the scale of Hamas's response to either type of incident.
Surely everyone will agree that Hezbollah is entitled to the same luxury which Hamas enjoys. Afterall, we don't want to discriminate nor apply double-standards between brothers in Resistance, do we.
- Let us now suppose the zionist apartheid regime decides to send its troops storm a mosque in south Lebanon, chase the mo'menin praying there, kick out dozens of Bent Jbeil residents from their homes and then shoot dead 9 south Lebanese children as well as 11 local adults... I think we both know what Hezbollah's reaction to this will be. Of course we do.
- But wait, isn't the so-called Isra"el"i regime occupying the entire land of Palestine save Gaza and West Bank? It sure is. This is as if the zionists were occupying the entirety of Lebanon except for some suburbs of Beirut and a handful of tiny districts... Again, what do you think Hezbollah's reaction under such circumstances would be? I'll stop right here, because I'm not going to step into the trap certain others seem to be susceptible of falling into, and I shall refrain from contrasting brothers in Resistance. Each deserve our respect, and any attempt to drive wedges between them or to portray them in opposition to each other merely serves the common enemy's interests.
Conclusion: no difference whatsoever between Hamas and Hezbollah in terms of their readiness, willingness and propensity to engage in the noble act of anti-zionist Resistance. None whatsoever. The two movements follow the same broad strategy, resort to armed retaliation under identical circumstances and so on. Both movements (one composed of Sunni Muslims, the other of Shia Muslims, a beautiful tandem of trans-confessional Islamic unity) are furthermore armed and militarily assisted by Islamic Iran (with Islamic Iran, and to a lesser extent Syria, being the only state actors to do so). Quite the commonalities if I'm asked.
okay. They have no nukes and the Israeli airforce is cutting edge
