Risk of clash with Iranian-backed group given fresh impetus by Israeli,Saudi Arabian and US rhetoric against TehranIsrael’s political and military leadership appears to have concluded that a clash with Lebanon’s Hezbollah is fitting increasingly likely, despite months of growing warnings that a third Lebanese war would be more dangerous and deadly than the final war in 2006. The mounting tensions on the northern border with Syria and Lebanon have increased in recent months as Israel has recognised its assumption that Hezbollah – a key ally fighting with the Assad regime – would be chewed up in a protracted Syrian clash is badly mistaken as the war has turned rapidly in Bashar al-Assad’s favour.
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Source: guardian.co.uk