Israel won't hold back on Hezbollah for long

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : But in practice, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent visit to Washington appeared to indicate that Israel possesses an area of manoeuvre within which it can pursue its preferred strategy, without incurring the disapproval of the American president.
44% : This means that a further round of hostilities between Israel and the battered but still standing terror group in Lebanon is a near certainty.
42% : This runs according to the terms of the ceasefire agreement which ended the last war between Israel and the Iran-supported Shia Islamist militia in November 2024.
42% : No one in Israel expected otherwise.
39% : Israel responded with 380 attacks on personnel and 950 attacks on targets.
38% : The road from the Albukamal border crossing between Iraq and Syria and then across the Badia desert to western Syria and Lebanon was Hezbollah's vital artery, bringing it the weapons and materiel needed to sustain its war against Israel.
38% : Israel will also maintain an ongoing, open-ended military campaign to disrupt and degrade its enemy's attempt to build its strength, with the intention of inflicting permanent damage.
37% : Secondly, the main strategic lesson that the Israeli defence establishment has learned from the 7 October massacres is that Israel cannot afford to complacently allow Islamist militias which have seized control of land on its borders to arm themselves to the teeth, in the belief that deterrence will work against them.
37% : The alternative to this strategy appears to be an activist, militant approach in which Israel will, where possible, acquire physical, territorial assets to serve as a buffer zone between the area controlled by its enemy and Israeli civilian communities.
37% : An additional notable aspect of the post-7 October Israeli ethos is a distrust of the old idea of 'mowing the lawn', according to which Israel will take open-ended but calibrated military actions to keep hostile entities at an acceptable level of weakness.
31% : The actual available choices in Lebanon are that Hezbollah will be permitted to gradually re-arm, or that Israel will prevent it from doing so.

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