[Ynet News] Moshe Elad - Nasrallah believed Israel was afraid to engage him in light of the ongoing threat of long-range missiles at Israeli cities. He was wrong. Nasrallah believed that if Israel does attack, it will do so with ground forces - and that's what he prepared for. Nasrallah miscalculated the Israeli public's staying power. Judging by a previous prisoner swap in which Israel released hundreds of prisoners in response for a kidnapped civilian and the bodies of three dead soldiers, Nasrallah figured Israelis would pester their government for a hostage-swap. He doesn't understand that he is the last person Israel is going to make a deal with. It's been many years since the Israeli public supported a war so broadly against an enemy who "deserves it." Brig.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Elad is a researcher at the Shmuel Neeman Institute at the Technion.
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