A region-wide crisis could break out in the Middle East over one single misstep, experts told The Daily Beast.
launched anti-tank missiles across the Lebanese-Israeli border throughout the day on Friday, prompting Israeli Defense Forces to launch strikes against Hezbollah infrastructure.
Another fear is that Israel or Hezbollah might anticipate the other side escalating, and take preemptive action. “We have very strong relations with Hezbollah. We were cooperating with Hezbollah before the attack on Israel and after and now we are in full cooperation,” Ahmed Abdul-Hadi,An Israeli soldier rests his head on the barrel of a howitzer as Israeli soldiers take positions near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on Oct. 9, 2023.Iran, which has long financed Hezbollah and provided weapons, training, and diplomatic aid to Hezbollah, has been actively working with Hezbollah in recent days.
“The bar for Hezbollah and Iran to get involved in this conflict is pretty low, and the bar for the United States is pretty high and they know that,” Harding told The Daily Beast. “I think they’re going to have a moment of pause before they just assume the United States will want to jump into another Middle East conflict, and that’s going to play into their calculation on whether they will be deterred.
“As dangerous as Hamas has proven, I am—and I think most others are—far more concerned about Hezbollah.” “Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah remain committed to conducting terrorist attacks and could seek to do so on U.S. soil,” a U.S. intelligence community worldwide threat assessment from earlier this year said, adding that Hezbollah is continuing to develop its terrorist capabilities alongside its conventional military capabilities.
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