THE DISPATCH
The Hezbollah Time Bomb Is Ticking
David Daoud and Jonathan Schanzer
June 20, 2024

Let’s not mince words: The Middle East is on the precipice of the most destructive war of the region’s modern history. This war did not begin on October 7. It actually began one day later, when Hezbollah, the most powerful proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, began attacking Israel. The Israelis, already on their back foot from the Hamas assault in the south of their country, struggled to gain equilibrium. The Israeli Defense Forces began with proportional responses to Hezbollah’s unprovoked attacks. But when that failed to deter the Lebanese terror group, the IDF steadily stepped up its retaliatory strikes. This, too, has done little. READ MORE

JPOST Strikes on Haifa and Tel Aviv: Hezbollah’s plan of attack if war erupts with Israel After the IDF announced that it had approved operational plans for an attack on Lebanon, Hezbollah quickly clarified that the Shi’ite terrorist organization is also preparing for the possibility that Israel will declare war on the Cedar State, as reported on Thursday by Lebanese newspaper Elnashra. According to the report, Hezbollah plans to attack Haifa if Israel expands the fighting and, in the next stage, additional cities, including Tel Aviv.