https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Israel%20Lebanon%20Victory%20PDF.pdf >Israeli operations in Lebanon have defeated Hezbollah and compelled the group to end its involvement in the October 7 War.
On November 26, Israel and
Hezbollah reached a ceasefire deal that ended Hezbollah's attacks into Israel and required
the group to disarm in southern Lebanon.[1] These conditions achieve the stated Israeli
war aim of safely returning displaced citizens to their homes in northern Israel. The
ceasefire ensures the Israeli right to self-defense against any future threat that Hezbollah
may pose as well.[2] Hezbollah, on the other hand, is severely degraded and has failed to
achieve its stated war aim of compelling Israel to accept a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.[3]
Israel’s victory and Hezbollah’s defeat have drastically changed the security landscape in
the Middle East by limiting Hezbollah’s ability to deter Israel. Though Israel has won this
round of conflict in Lebanon, Hezbollah will almost certainly begin reconstituting its
forces and likely try re-entrenching itself in southern Lebanon at some point. The United
States and Israel must ensure that Hezbollah adheres to the ceasefire. If Hezbollah
violates the ceasefire, the United States must permit Israel to use force to disrupt Hezbollah's efforts to rebuild its forces and the threat that it poses to Israel.
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Hezbollah entered the war on October 8, 2023—one day after Hamas’ ground attack into Israel. Hezbollah began firing almost daily drone, missile, and rocket attacks targeting towns and military sites in northern Israel.[5] These attacks led thousands of Israeli citizens to evacuate, leaving many of them displaced for over a year.[6] The stated Hezbollah objectives were to fix some Israeli forces along the border and compel Israel to accept a ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.[7] Israel tried to attrit Hezbollah forces along the border in response by conducting intermittent shelling and airstrikes into Lebanon targeting Hezbollah leaders and logistics.
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Hezbollah had long planned for its powerful offensive military unit, the Radwan Force, to use these tunnels to conduct attacks into Israel that would be similar to what Hamas did on October 7, 2023.[12] These ground attacks are part of a concept developed by Iran and its Axis of Resistance to use ground warfare and information operations to destabilize Israel and ultimately erode the viability of an Israeli state.[13]
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Although Hezbollah can still break the ceasefire and fire into Israel at any time, the strategic threat that it poses to Israel is far diminished. The large Hezbollah rocket and drone barrages in the days before the ceasefire will inevitably draw comparisons between this ground campaign and the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War, in which Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets just before Israel agreed to the ceasefire.[14] Hezbollah sought to prove in 2006 that it had won the war and likely aimed to do so again in 2024 by firing rockets at much higher rates leading up to the ceasefire deal.[15] The IDF inflicted far greater damage to Hezbollah in this campaign than it did in 2006, however. The IDF has killed nearly all of the top Hezbollah commanders, degraded the Radwan Force, destroyed kilometers of offensive tunnels, and demonstrated the Israeli ability to rapidly inflict massive casualties upon Hezbollah at relatively little cost.[16]
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Hezbollah will almost certainly try to reconstitute its forces and very likely with Iranian support, however. Hezbollah therefore still poses a strategic threat to Israel, despite being defeated in this round of conflict. The United States and Israel must ensure that Hezbollah continues to adhere to the ceasefire and does not rearm in southern Lebanon. The United States and Israel will also need to hold the guarantors of the ceasefire accountable. The ceasefire relies on UNIFIL and the Lebanese state to implement many of its provisions, including preventing Hezbollah from rearming. But UNIFIL and the Lebanese state proved unable and unwilling to fulfill this same responsibility after UN Security Council Resolution 1701 ended the Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006, raising questions about whether they could enforce the latest ceasefire. Washington must therefore continue to support the Israeli right to use force against Hezbollah efforts to rearm and re-entrench in southern Lebanon. Failing to prevent Hezbollah from rearming will increase the risk of a new war in the years ahead dramatically. And there is no guarantee that a future Israel-Hezbollah war will be as contained and short as this one was.
the eternal wandering jew
He who cries last, cries worstest.
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>>1365857 you're mentally ill
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>>1365834 israel went in, did nothing but get owned, and then walked out again.
how is this not the biggest loss ever for them u hasbara coper LOL
get fucked
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