I dunno, Evan, it seems like dissembling to me. Those quotes sounded far too sedate for a terrorist group.

Israel has this habit of overreacting to provocation but given their history and circumstances their paranoia is understandable. From their birth onward every 7-9 years people are trying to wipe them out.

What I fail to understand is why no one seems to publicly condemn Iran and/or whoever else is selling Hezbollah the rockets? Take the rockets away and Hezbollah is greatly reduced as a threat. I mean, jeez, this isn't a country we're talking about; it's a buncha nutcase terrorists.

>>You might find this interesting:
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>>Hezbollah: Israeli onslaught a surprise
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>Interesting. Before this current theory of mine, I had thought that Hezbollah was intentionally trying to escalating the existing battle in Gaza. If what this person is saying is true, then this was just another day of kidnapping, and Israel used it is a pretext to disarm Hezbollah.
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>On that note if Israel can wait another month, Hezbollah will simply run out of rockets. Hezbollah is disarming itself by being at war.
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>Another interesting item from that article is that while they don't confirm the rockets are from Iran, they say they use arms from many countries including the US, France...