How Israel Should Respond to Hizballah’s Most Recent Provocation
The days of keeping the north quiet at any cost have passed.
March 27, 2023
How Israel Should Respond to Hizballah’s Most Recent Provocation
The days of keeping the north quiet at any cost have passed.
Earlier this month, an operative working for, or in conjunction with, Hizballah snuck across the Israel-Lebanese border and planted a sophisticated explosive near the town of Megiddo, which killed a civilian when detonated. On Thursday, another Iranian proxy group launched a drone at a U.S. military base in Syria, killing a contractor and wounding five American soldiers. The former attack appears to be an attempt to change what Israeli officials and analysts call the “rules of the game”: the mutually understood redlines that keep the Jewish state and Hizballah from going to war. Nadav Pollak explains how he believes Jerusalem should respond:
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