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Related: About this forumWill Israel's Dismantling of Hezbollah's Leadership Reduce Violence in the Middle East? - William Spaniel
Over the last week, Israel has been systematically trying to take out all of Hezbollah's key leadership with various types of strikes. Will the plan work? Today's video examines the broader context of Hezbollah's role in the Gaza Crisis, how Israel strategized in response, the bigger picture of what happens following successful strikes against leadership, and where Iran fits into all of this.
0:00 Israel's Busy Year
2:04 Hezbollah's Intervention in Gaza
4:11 Israel's Preemptive War Meta-Problem
6:33 Is this the End of Hezbollah?
9:46 Iran's Role
comradebillyboy
(10,444 posts)violence will decrease by a lot. Iran supports Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and the Syrian régime with weapons and money. He who pays the fiddler calls the tune.
marble falls
(62,012 posts)... is no way to encourage an armed political faction to be "reasonable": they are unreasonable in the face unreasonable actions by Israel.
I know my family did nor become reasonable to the Crown when British troops burned their farms North Carolina during the Revolution.
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Richard D
(9,329 posts). . . the allied forces in WWII were not seeking ways to be reasonable with Germany, otherwise our flag and many others might very well contain a swastika.
Eko
(8,457 posts)Of course it took far longer for the US to do so.