North American, European and Arab mediators are pushing to prevent the escalation of cross-border attacks between the Israel it’s her Hezbollahto evolve into a wider war in Middle East, which the international community had feared for months.
According to an Associated Press report, U.S. and European officials are warning Hezbollah, which is far more powerful than Hamas but is seen as overconfident, about confronting Israel’s military might, current and former diplomats say. old ones.
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They warn that the group should not count on the United States or anyone else to contain Israeli leaders if they decide to attack Lebanon.
And Hezbollah must not count on the ability of its fighters to deal with what comes next.
It is unclear whether Israel or Hezbollah decided to scale back attacks to avoid provoking an Israeli invasion of Lebanon, said Gerald Feuerstein, a former senior U.S. diplomat in the Middle East.
Despite the cessation of hostilities last week, “it certainly appears that the Israelis are still…organizing with the expectation that there will be some kind of conflict…a completely different magnitude of conflict,” he said.
The message to Hezbollah is “don’t think you are as capable as you think you are,” he said.