Hezbollah would be an even tougher nut for Israel than Hamas. From Declan Hayes at strategic-culture.su:
The looming war between Israel and its allies with Hezbollah and its allies for South Lebanon resembles the prelude to the Great War of 1914-1918.
The looming war between Israel and its allies with Hezbollah and its allies for South Lebanon resembles the prelude to the Great War of 1914-1918. Though nobody wants it, everyone has been preparing for it, just as the Dreadnought race between Germany and Britain were the stepping stones to Verdun, the Somme and the Marne.
Israel’s objective, if Tel Aviv can be believed on this or, indeed, on anything else, is to extend its South Lebanese toehold as far as the Litani River, which it would then hope to use as a natural border between it and a broken Lebanon to the north.
The Hezbollah alliance, for its part, is fully aware of this objective, as it is of the Israeli alliance’s larger plans to march on Iran, via Lebanon and all other countries that are in the way, not least because they and the military means to achieve them have been clearly and repeatedly spelled out in NATO aligned outlets, including these ones here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
The ideal scenario, from the Israeli alliance’s point of view, would be to conduct yet another blitzkrieg into Lebanon, perhaps as far north again as Beirut, to get its various Muslim Brotherhood and allied forces to again harass Hezbollah from the north and to do to South Lebanon what they are currently doing to the Gaza salient.
This approach would have the advantage that the Syrian Arab is not in a position to effectively intervene to stop them, as they famously did in bygone invasions. That said, though a full on Lebanese invasion would rally Israelis around the flag and perhaps even help Joe Biden secure re-election, it is very difficult to see any other advantages to the Israeli alliance waging blitzkrieg or an American style shock and awe extermination campaign. Certainly Jordan and Gulf State collaborationist countries would find themselves in a right pickle were that to happen.
Going into WAR with depleted forces that have been in the grinder since early October?
The indispensable chosen master race be like all smart n’ shit.
Uncle Sugar is stretched thin on the world conquering rainbow faculty lounge tour and may not be able to bail them out?
Once saw a comment from an Israeli general after a victory saying…don’t get too excited it was Arabs.
May they but that up on the bulletin board for fodder.