You're probably hearing a lot of people talk about the "danger" of an "escalation" when Israel inevitably responds to the Hezbollah rocket attack that killed 12 children and teens at a soccer game yesterday. No. The escalation happened when the Iranian proxy group started bombarding Israeli towns and villages from Lebanon on October 8 in solidarity with Hamas's massacre in southern Israel a day earlier. It has continued for the past nine months, with daily rocket, missile, and suicide drone attacks that have claimed numerous lives, caused widespread destruction, set huge swaths of land on fire, and driven tens of thousands of Israeli families from their homes. Northern Israel has been largely depopulated. The international community has done exactly nothing to stop this. The UN has not intervened to stop the Hezbollah attacks, even though it has a designated peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon—UNIFIL—that exists to prevent this sort of thing from happening. Israel has been contending with this entirely alone. Hezbollah's assault on northern Israel started three quarters of a year ago and has been ongoing ever since. That's the escalation. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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