Israelis awoke today to the unsurprising news that the IDF had crossed the border into Lebanon. The incursions, which had been expected for days and heavily briefed as imminent yesterday, are supposedly ‘limited’ and ‘targeted’ – aiming to destroy fortified Hezbollah positions overlooking the Galilee and prevent the terror group from using short-range weapons like RPGs against Israeli towns.
The IDF has learnt its lessons from the shame and failure of the 2006 war, while Hezbollah was overconfident after its successes
The invasion came after two weeks of astonishing successes in the war against Hezbollah. First, the detonations of thousands of supposedly secure pagers worn by Hezbollah commandos, secretly laced with explosives, then a repeat wave of explosions of walkie-talkies, the backup communications system, and then two weeks of intense bombing against weapons dumps and rocket caches all over Lebanon. At the same time, the IDF and Israeli intelligence systematically wiped out the leadership of Hezbollah in Beirut with targeted airstrikes that showed just how deeply the group must have been penetrated.
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