Will Israel address the threat posed by Hezbollah before attacking Iran? Opinion

NEWSRAEL ^ | Dec 10, 2021 | NEWSRAEL

[JerusalemOne]

NEWSRAEL: The "obvious" assumption is: If Israel attacks Iran, Hezbollah will attack Israel with its 150,000 missiles. The writer here says that that this is not so obvious and could very well not happen.

As tensions between Israel and Iran rise, against the backdrop of a round of nuclear talks with the superpowers and the possibility that the talks will fail, opinions in the media are growing as to how Israel should respond if it turns out that the Iranian nuclear threat is taking shape?

Should Israel first deal militarily with the threat that Hezbollah poses to Israel on the more than 150,000 missiles in its possession, some of which can reach any point in Israel? Or is it estimated that Hezbollah's joining the campaign against Israel is an "unfounded" assumption under any circumstances and that Nasrallah has final and independent discretion?

The military commentator of the website Netziv.net - Guy A. Responds to the above questions:

[humblegunner]

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No.

You can post the whole thing.

Get a job.

[EEGator]

This is an American website, don’t care about your foreign blog.

[apoliticalone]

So if Israel and Iran get into a squabble or war, the price of energy especially under this energy dependent Biden administration will definitely not fall. Devious unscrupulous politicians are always concerned first with how this helps them and their donor class. But last how this affects citizenry in USA.

[faithhopecharity]

so far, the Israeli government has not only failed to eliminate the Arab terrorist murder gangs (PLO/Abbas/Fatah/Hezballah/Hamas, etc)
but it is even protecting and in some cases financing them!

Basically, selling out the country and its people

imho anyway.
The first duty of a government is national defense, meaning eliminating threats to its people, etc. The national Israeli governments in Jerusalem have failed so miserably at this... it makes one want to just sit down and cry

[cowboyusa]

Israel can handel itself, it doesn’t need our help.

[Paal Gulli]

Hezbolla's 150,000 rockets couldn't destroy Israel, else they already would have done so. Just two nuclear-tipped Shahab rockets from Iran can.

And the war with Hezbollah is largely an internal affair, while Israel has support (at least tacitly) from several (Sunni) Arab states in its conflict with Iran because Israel could potentially prevent the whole of the Middle East from becoming embroiled in a contest of "keeping up with the nuclear Joneses" without them (the Sunnis) getting into yet another donnybrook without end with the Shiites.

So that would be a "No." Dealing with Hezbollah will not be a prerequisite to the Israelis acting to prevent the Iranians from glazing Tel Aviv and Jerusalem with atom bombs.