The risks of conflict spiraling out of control have elevated in the last several days.
Israel and its adversaries are playing a “dangerous game of chicken” with a series of strikes, counterstrikes and threats of more retaliation, according to a Middle East expert., a senior political scientist at RAND, said Israel wants to eliminate the terrorist group Hamas . Israel wants to keep another terrorist group, Hezbollah , in check while avoiding a full-scale war with them. And Israel views Iran as its chief enemy that’s using both Hamas and Hezbollah as its proxies.
Cohen said Israel has operated within Iran before as part of a “shadow war” between the two countries. And Israel has been fighting regularly with Hezbollah across its northern border with Lebanon since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.He said Israel and Hezbollah go after each other with a “symbolic use of violence” while
Yahya Sinwar is the head of Hamas inside Gaza. And Sinwar is assumed to be the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, Cohen said.“The Israelis have been very clear of that everyone, every member of Hamas, certainly all the senior leadership, are all fair game,” Cohen said.“Now, what the Iranians will do in response, I think that gets to an interesting question,” he said.
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