But some “think we are closer to a regional war than we have been at any time in the last 11 months”.
In theory, little about Mossad should come as a surprise to Avner Avraham. The retired lieutenant colonel spent 28 years inside Israel’s famed foreign intelligence service, escorting prime ministers to international peace summits and working as an agent on clandestine foreign missions he can still not discuss today.
A day later, walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah operatives began exploding. The back-to-back attacks killed an estimated 37 people and injured more than 3000 in total. It was a humiliating blow for the much-feared militant Islamist group, which suffered its highest number casualties since its 2006 war with Israel. And now its communications abilities were crippled.
“The scale and scope of it was just staggering,” Polymeropoulos said. Israel had achieved “complete intelligence domination” over its Lebanese adversary after these attacks and its July killing of Hezbollah’s top commander Fuad Shukr, he said.Less impressed was a group of experts led by Ben Saul, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and a University of Sydney law professor, who
Far from afraid of a war breaking out, Davidi was eager for it, seeing it as the only way to weaken Hezbollah enough to bring safety back to border communities. “We cannot live here with guns pointed at our children playing in their backyards,” he said. Avraham, who served in Lebanon during his time with Mossad, believes the time has arrived for such a conflict. He thinks Israel should have decisively taken on Hezbollah months ago.
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