Israel’s Pager Attack

Today, Israel conducted an attack on Lebanon use explosive pagers targeting Hezbollah members. My worry is out of the thousands of exploding pagers is that many innocents will die and escalate the war further. The linked article involves the unnecessary death of a 10 year old child. We will hear more about non-Hezbollah being injured or killed in this mass casualty event.

Israel under Netanyahu has always wanted to have the final harder punch against its enemies. Counterintuitively, the US has been able to convince Israel’s enemies, including terrorist backers, at times to de-escalate. See the delayed missile retaliation against Israel earlier this year that was intercepted. Israel appears to be increasingly surrounded and opening more fronts in the war. I fear that Netanyahu’s, like Trump, survival depends upon staying in power to avoid potential consequences of their earlier actions.

Israel may end up dragging the United States into a larger regional conflict.

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