hezbollah are not idiots. the reality is hezbollah did not want war. they wanted to open a "support front" where basically they just fire a few rockets at areas that are actually lebanese territory that israel did not withdraw from because they felt it was too shameful to do nothing.   a_farms they thought they had enough deterrence, but the truth is that israel had been waiting for this moment, as can be seen by the pager attacks and the mass assassinations. israel was waiting for any sort of justification to start a war and the real reason they escalated is because hezbollah were about to discover the pager problem. no point in talking about it this way at this point because it's now about defending lebanese territory or sovereignty. the support front is over.
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