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As Iran exerts military and political pressure to force Israel to end its occupation and attacks on southern Lebanon, Israeli media panics at a new equation being set in the region: “Lebanon is only the beginning. If this trend continues, tomorrow there will be demands for a ceasefire in Gaza, and later restrictions on activity in the West Bank,” wrote Yossi Yehoshua in Ynet. ￭ “The new and dangerous connection was created: between a burned tank in southern Lebanon and the most important shipping lane for the global economy. Between the village of Tibnit and Hormuz. Between an unclear tactical event and US-Iran negotiations in which Israel is not sitting in the room anyway, but may pay the price,” wrote Ronan Bergman in Ynet.
