has said that they are prepared to launch a large-scale attack. we heard this from a state department official about that watch we continue to see hezbollah taking strikes across the border, including incredibly destructive strikes and israel of course, has the right to defend itself when hit by a terrorist or fertilization. but we remain concerned about the risk of escalation and the risks that any type of escalation could further widen and broaden this conflict. then what are the consequences of israel starting even what they call a quote-unquote limited war with lebanon well, one of the first dangerous casey is that it s hard to keep a war limited. and of course, what we know is that hizballah is far better armed and trained disciplined? then hamas don t forget they re supported by iran. and unlike gaza lebanon has strategic depth. cvs, it s his butler
few months sometimes not responding very strongly and they might misinterpret this as weakness and that it s okay to hit israel. so i want to be very clear we will hit back. there will be a decisive blow, one that they cannot recover from if they continue down this route, do you think it would be decisive i mean, hezbollah is not the same as it was and 2006 to 2008. i mean, they have quite an arsenal to them what would that look like if israel is fighting wars on two different borders? because we could handle towards, again, we don t want it. i ve spent decades fighting hizballah in lebanon nasrallah after the second lebanon war, he publicly stated that hadn t known what our reaction would have been, he would not have started the war. he said that he should be smart enough to not make that mistake. again, can i ask about
Hours before Israel launched a drone strike against Iran on Thursday night, Israeli officials gave a heads up to their US counterparts in Washington: an attack was in the works,
the revolutionary yards, i think israel made a strategic misjudgment. they thought they could live alongside a hamas-controlled gaza seven october demonstrated they could not, while they re living alongside a hizballah controlled lebanon they re living alongside popping iranian controlled syria, but a syria in which iran has a substantial foothold now, i don t think the israeli security chiefs, the people i used to work there mossad and shin bet and so on will be ready to tolerate this indefinitely and they ll say, if not, now, then when. but i think the politics point to a gradual step forward rather than a major escalation. and i just wonder your security interlocutors over the years, many of them have publicly said that actually israel s most existential threat is the continued lack of a political resolution that would bring security between israel and the palestinian. do you think now is you look at
what tehran has said and they ve said that they know where israel s nuclear sites are as well, and could target those. so what we re seeing now from state media, and of course, we are waiting to hear from a more official source within that is that they are downplaying this. they are showing images of where these drone strikes or the jones we re apparently taken out showing a very peaceful situation, they ve said there was no ground explosion. there is no issues on the ground and no damage at this point. so you re right. two very different messages that we re hearing get and very quickly, one of the major players in the region and all of this is the iran-backed militant group hezbollah, which is based in liberal on where you are is, has there been any reaction hizballah that would indicate that there would be some kind of reaction from the right insula. all quiet on the southern front all quiet at this point. it certainly hasn t been quiet this week. we ve seen an uptick in the cross-