’Israel’: Hizbullah A Strong Army in Every Respect!
Local Editor
For about three and half years, since the summer of 2012, Hizbullah has been actively involved on the Syrian ground. Therefore, "Israeli" intelligence officials pondered for quite some time how to assess the Syrian war's effect on Hizbullah.
In the mid-1990s, when the fight against Hizbullah in the so-called security zone in southern Lebanon was escalating, it was the chief of staff, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, who determined that the army had to treat Hizbullah as a guerilla organization rather than as "terrorists" or "terror cells."
However, referring to the war in Syria, the "Israeli" army is now coming to the recognition that its Lebanese rival has become an army in every respect.
Some couple of years ago, an article published in the military journal "Ma'arakhot," cited a Zionist military intelligence officer as outlining Hizbullah's possible intentions in another war with the Zionist entity as follows: a surprise attack along the border in which commando forces from the organization try to attack a community or a small military base with the aim of opening the fight with a perceived achievement, creating an impression "Israel" would have difficulty overcoming. This, according to the officer, is the real meaning of Hizbullah's Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's threats of "conquering the Galilee".
"The terrain along the border with Lebanon is mountainous and complicated. This topography affords the attacker significant ability to surprise, which almost eliminates the need to dig attack tunnels," the daily cautioned.
However, it has already been written so many times that currently Hizbullah does not have a motivation for war because Sayyed Nasrallah's mind "is thoroughly engaged elsewhere, in Syria."
Yet while this year the military intelligence assessment for the north holds that the risk of a Hizbullah-initiated war is low, it also raised to moderate likelihood the possibility that a war could break out as the result of a "miscalculation" between the sides.
The "Israeli" journalist further concluded that the Zionist army is preparing itself accordingly, from extensive engineering works along the border with the aim of impeding penetration by attacking forces, through tightened intelligence coverage of Hizbullah activities, to practice maneuvers.
Source: Haaretz, Edited by website team
