The Israeli government is in effect signalling that it is ready to take on Iran directly and is challenging it to hit back, if it dares.
attempting to kill Hassan NasrallahHezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks in a televised address via a video link during a ceremony to commemorate the death of several members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in April.The first signs of a major Israeli escalation came as huge blasts and secondary explosions ripped through the southern suburbs of Beirut as the sun fell on the Lebanese capital on Friday evening.
At the time of writing it was not clear if Nasrallah, a hero to millions on the Shia Arab Street, was killed but that Israel was targeting him there seems little doubt. If Israel is willing not just to degrade it but to decapitate it, that strategy, that chess piece, will be gone and the fragile balance of power between Israel and Iran fundamentally changed.Israel is in effect signalling that it is ready to take on Iran directly and is challenging the world’s biggest and most powerful Shia Arab nation to hit back, if it dares.
It’s not clear if Netanyahu regards that as a rhetorical question. After all, all Israel’s allies, including the UK, were until hours ago, it was a US-led coalition including the UK, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and Jordan that swung into action to shoot most of the missiles down.
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