Fears are growing that tension between Israel and Lebanon could lead to a regional war involving Iran in the Middle East.
“We can plunge Lebanon completely into the dark and take apart Hezbollah’s power in days,” former Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz declared Tuesday at a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel. It was just the latest threat from a prominent Israeli public figure against Lebanon and Hezbollah as tensions flare. It won’t be difficult for Israel to plunge Lebanon into darkness.
In the entire 34-day war of 2006 Hezbollah is estimated to have fired around 4,000 rockets – a daily average of 117. It may not amount to mutually assured destruction a la Cold War, but enough destruction will be wreaked on Israel and Lebanon to make it costly for both. At 6 a.m. on July 13, 2006 – less than 24 hours after the start of the war – Israeli warplanes bombed and knocked out Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport.
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