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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now defied Biden three times - on reoccupying Rafah, on accepting a ceasefire in Gaza with Hamas, and now on opening a new front in Lebanon.
And he got away with it each time.
Netanyahu was expected to be on the defensive before the United Nations General Assembly last week. Not a bit of it. He blazed defiance. Netanyahu raised his middle finger to his chief armourer and ally. And Israel cheered him on.
The result of America’s refusal to cut all arms supplies to Israel has consequences: there are now no obstacles to its killing spree.
There are no boundaries.
Drunk with power, Israel is under a profound delusion. Perhaps its biggest to date.
Decimating its leadership and senior commanders has not, and cannot kill Hezbollah itself, nor stop a new generation of fighters coming forward, who will not feel the restraints of the previous generation.
Nor can Israel guarantee who comes next. Until now, Hezbollah has not targeted civilians and was not interested in engaging in a big war with Israel.
Their attacks were designed to demonstrate Hezbollah’s military capacity, not to inflict terminal blows. Hezbollah also said their conflict would end the moment a ceasefire was agreed in Gaza.
This restraint is almost certain to disappear. Hezbollah has no choice. Its policy has been made for it. Like Hamas, like Gaza, Hezbollah is now engaged in a conflict in which its enemy not only wants to push it out of its main heartland, but to destroy it altogether.
This now has become an existential war for Hezbollah.
What next? This is a question that Israel rarely asks itself at times like this. Nor does it learn from the history of this bitter conflict.”
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✍️: Lubna Masarwa*
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