Hezbollah was deeply dug in here. They had six years to do it. And extracting them from their underground tunnels, craters, arms caches is a laborious and dangerous process and is not done overnight.
Michael Oren discusses the challenges faced by the Israeli army in combating Hezbollah.
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We want to retain the regional alliance that emerged after last Saturday night of moderate Sunni state standing, you know, basically shoulder to shoulder with us against Iran.
Now it’s the first time that I’ve seen in history when we have the opportunity to make the strategy the strategy. It’s not a tactic.
Israel has to, on one hand, defend itself, defend the country, restore its internal security because we have 250,000 people who can't go back to their homes.
If the ceasefire goes on, Hamas is going to use that period to lay more booby traps, to move equipment around.