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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Yes, Israel could _perhaps_ assassinate Nasrallah, or other senior Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon or Syria, although it would be terribly difficult and terribly dangerous for those involved.
I bet they'd have done it already if they really thought they could. It also would not provide anything resembling even a medium-term solution to the problem.
Israel cannot quietly eliminate Hezbollah and/or its advisors from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. That's what they are trying to do. The strategy is fraught with peril, and the deaths of innocents, but it is not insane. Perhaps better for Israel -- and Israeli civilians -- in the long-run than permitting the status quo to continue.
S_A_M
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Again, to clarify, my comments were addressed to Hamas in
Gaza.
Although I will take a moment to address your point about assasination being "terribly difficult and terribly dangerous." The assassins would be either IDF or Mossad. Either way, they would be military men who knowingly and voluntarily undertook to risk their lives fighting in defense of their country. The same cannot be said for Lebanese, Palestinian, or Israeli civilians currently caught in the artillery war.
I realize it's quite fashionable to consider Arabs to be less than human and not deserving of the measure of respect for human life that is normally professed by you and Sidd. I've never really been a slave to fashion.
