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Justified, Essential, and Timely
[Ha'aretz] Avraham Tal - Why did Hizballah invest so much time and energy in creating a network of rockets and missiles that is the densest in the world (at least in terms of weaponry per square kilometer)? After all, its leaders knew that Israel would never threaten Lebanon. Eventually Hizballah (installed as Lebanon's formal regime?), in collaboration with Iran, would have launched a war of annihilation against Israel. Should the confrontation with Hizballah have been delayed until Iran had already acquired nuclear weapons? The IDF is not fighting a small guerrilla organization. It is dealing with a trained, skilled, well-organized, highly motivated infantry that is equipped with the cream of the crop of modern weaponry from the arsenals of Syria, Iran, Russia, and China, and which is very familiar with the territory on which it is fighting. In such a showdown, the going is very slow, and, sadly, you must also pay a heavy price in terms of casualties. The first Lebanon war in 1982 achieved its goal: the Palestine Liberation Organization's removal from Lebanese soil.