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The situation in the Middle East may be ready to simmer down a bit as Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah have agreed to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal. During the months-long conflict, Israel succeeded in shwacking a long list of Hezbollah’s leaders including LH head Hassan Nasrallah, top commander Ali Karaki, deputy head of Hezbollah’s Central Council Nabil Kaouk, head of Hezbollah’s drone unit Mohammed Srur, leader of LH’s missile unit Ibrahim Qubaisi, leader of the 1983 Beirut bombing killing U.S. Marines Ibrahim Aqil, and quite a few more. It seems that matriculating LH leaders were prudent in agreeing to the ceasefire.
For Israel, this allows them to refocus their efforts to ending the threat from Hamas, which has also been decimated by the small state. Seeing as both LH and Hamas are Iranian proxies, and in light of the fact that Iran announced this past weekend its preparations for an attack on Israel, it will be very interesting to see what response if any comes f…
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