by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – Citing official mediators working to prevent a full-on war between Israel and the Hezbollah Lebanese terror group, the Associated Press reports that the US, the EU, and Arab states are warning Hezbollah it does not have the capacity to crush a full-scale offensive by the Israeli army in Lebanon and that it should not count on any assistance in trying to do so.
Hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets at northern Israeli towns since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. Claiming to support the Palestinians in Hamas’ war against Israel in Gaza, Hezbollah said it will not stop attacking northern Israel until a permanent ceasefire with full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza is achieved. Cross-border fire between Hezbollah and the IDF has intensified and tens of thousands of Israelis have been evacuated from their homes close to the border with Lebanon in northern Israel.
However, as the war in Gaza drags into its ninth month, talks and hopes for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have dwindled. “With the stalled talks in mind, American and European officials are delivering warnings to Hezbollah — which is far stronger than Hamas but seen as overconfident — about taking on the military might of Israel, current and former diplomats say,” AP said in its report.
According to AP, diplomats are warning Hamas that they “should not count on the United States or anyone else being able to hold off Israeli leaders if they decide to execute battle-ready plans for an offensive into Lebanon. And Hezbollah should not count on its fighters’ ability to handle whatever would come next.”
In a statement to AP, Gerald Feierstein, a former senior US diplomat in the Middle East, said: “It certainly seems the Israelis are still… arranging themselves in the expectation that there will be some kind of conflict… an entirely different magnitude of conflict.”
Hezbollah, meanwhile, is being told by Americans, Europeans, and Arabs: “Don’t think that you’re as capable as you think you are,” Feierstein said.
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