How the U.S. Can Stop Hizballah from Going to War with Israel

In the absence of a commission of inquiry, Israelis are drawing their own conclusions about October 7. A great number believe that the mistake lay in taking a defensive posture toward Hamas, and that the obvious lesson is that Hizballah should be preempted before it attempts an even more terrible attack on Israel’s north. At the same time, Israel’s war-weary citizen-soldiers and their families have little appetite for more fighting, even if they fear it may be necessary. Hizballah, for its part, fired a missile on Friday night that struck on Israeli barn and killed two horses. And yesterday, it launched a drone attack that left eighteen soldiers wounded.