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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah’s demographic problem explains its restraint
2019-09-11
From a week ago, but still interesting, I think.
[Jpost] Israel’s alleged three-pronged attacks in the last two weeks in Syria, Iraq and above all, in Dahiye, the vast Beirut Shi’ite neighborhood where the Hezbollah is headquartered above and below ground, was met with a very limited Hezbollah response. An IDF truck was stuck by two missiles with the obvious objective of killing Israeli soldiers in retaliation of the killing of two Hezbollah soldiers in an Israeli attack on Syria. The limited response against military personnel only sent a strong signal, acknowledged by the Israeli side that Hezbollah wanted to avoid escalation that could lead to all-out war.

Presumably, the attack violated Hezbollah’s redlines in order to destroy equipment that would have facilitated the local manufacture of precision-guided missiles that could render Israel’s key strategic infrastructure ‐ power plants, airbases, sea and air-ports ‐ so vulnerable.

Israel, then, felt compelled to do the same as it had been doing for nearly two years in Syria, in Leb as well.
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