On lessons learned – Zvi Bar’el in Haaretz:

‘"I have never seen such terrible things in my life," a doctor in a Beirut hospital told AFP. "People came in with amputated limbs, about 75 percent of the wounded were hurt in the eyes, 15 percent of them lost both eyes, fingers were chopped off, internal organs ripped out, and we don't have enough equipment and anesthesia materials to take care of them all."’

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‘Hassan Nasrallah is well aware of Lebanon's difficulties to deal with attacks that result in numerous casualties. Yesterday in his speech he thanked the medical teams and hospitals for their immense contribution. He also thanked Iran and Syria for opening their hospitals to patients from Lebanon, and Iraq for a speedy shipment of medications and medical equipment.
But he also wanted to clarify that "the heavy and unprecedented war" on Lebanon will not change the organization's policy, despite the fact that the attack "crossed all the red lines."
Commentators in Lebanon hastened to describe the pager and radio attacks as ones that, in the words of opposition commentator Mounir Rabih, "crushed the 'response equation'" and "trapped" Hezbollah.’

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‘Hence, Iran and Hezbollah's choice to stick to the "response equation" leaves Israel to decide if and when to start a major war. And in view of Hezbollah's behavior, Israel will also have to deal with the international and internal legitimacy of such a war as long as Hezbollah doesn't provide a reason to start it.
However, the absence of Hezbollah's response will affect not only its damaged status, but the rest of Iran's proxies and especially Iran itself. So far, Hezbollah was the coordinator and planner of the proxies' activities, with a status of "supreme leader" no less senior than the IRGC's Quds Force.’

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‘Nasrallah almost rubbed his hands with glee when he spoke of the report according to which the head of the IDF's Northern Command, Major General Uri Gordin, said the IDF was set to establish a security zone in Lebanon.
"Today we're looking for their tanks with flashlights and candlewick, but when they reach us, they are welcome. We'll see this threat as the historic opportunity we're craving," Nasrallah said.
To remove all doubt, he took pains to emphasize that even such a security zone will not prevent Hezbollah from firing into Israel's territory. But there's no need to rely on Nasrallah's warnings; it would be wise to study the archives of Israel's 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon.’

Read the article here.

Nasrallah ‘does not intend to launch an all-out war’ but it’s up to Israel to decide ‘if and when to start a major war’.

In other words, Nasrallah is waiting for Netanyahu to dig his own grave. Also out of necessity, he has not the means to do it for him.

The civilians on both sides of the border are an afterthought, as usual.