Consider the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the elimination of his three sons and four grandchildren, the taking out of exactly the intended eight Revolutionary Guard Corps officers in the Iranian consulate in Damascus, and the murders of James Henderson, John Chapman and James Kirby using a British-supplied weapon.
The Israelis do not have accidents and do not make mistakes. That is their own line, and we should believe it. Either they have laid waste to much of Beirut in order to kill Hassan Nasrallah when they could have taken him out with surgical precision. Or they have laid waste to much of Beirut without killing Nasrallah because on this occasion they had never intended to eliminate him.
At least the Israelis have not bombed Beirut's Jewish Quarter, damaging its principal synagogue. They did that in 1982. After that, although notably only after that, the community mostly emigrated, largely to Israel. The Israelis do not have accidents and do not make mistakes. That is their own line, and we should believe it.
What now?
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