Israel Tiptoes Toward Conflict With Lebanon’s Hezbollah
9/12/19
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from The Wall Street Journal,
9/12/19:
From drone strikes to psyops, Israel’s widening campaign to weaken Iranian ally escalates tensions.
A widening campaign by Israel to blunt the threat posed by Iran’s ally Hezbollah, and the pushback from beyond Israel’s borders, are raising the risk that the two sides will stumble into another war.
In what is known in Israel as the war between the wars, Israel has been hitting targets in Syria for years to try to prevent Tehran from moving military supplies to its Lebanese ally. More recently, raising the risk of conflict, it expanded that effort to Lebanon and Iraq.
Hezbollah responded last week, firing antitank missiles into this small farming community on the Lebanese border.
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