Is this like juvenile delinquent gangs in the 1950s who would hit and run and some get arrested and then would hit and run again?
Or worse, like Anonymous and others they could have the Hamas and PLO leaders say “We don’t know who they are. They are acting on their own.” And go on with the war during “peacetime” after Israeli concessions.
Did FJB approve of this one too?
The key is not the vague 72 hour “warning”, as Iran did not specify what base would be hit (etc.) The key is the flight time from Iran vs. from Hezbollah positions. Essentially, difficulty of interception goes up as a sort of extreme inverse function of time (with a hard limit where the difficulty goes to infinity.) Over an hour flight time is gravy if you have sufficient resources. When you are under a few minutes warning, that’s getting tough. The Israelis know that and that’s a major reason they do pre-emptive strikes, which themselves can never have 100% (or 99%) effect either, and no one claims so.
What I’ve not seen anywhere is how many rockets (and drones?) were launched and how many intercepted. This
attack is called “major”, so I’d expect it could have been upwards of 50. If Israel took out 48 or 49 of 50 bogeys launched from short range, that’s superb, as defense statistics go. If they knocked out 2 of 4, it’s not so good.