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This is a layman's opinion. Israel was warned by the US something was happening, but not sure about what.
Israel chose to not do anything about it. Yes the kind of intelligence is very different, but I very much doubt that if Israel has the ability to flex and yell a proverbial FUCK YOU everyone involved in the region by a very accurate targeted bombing Hezbollah leadership, they sure as hell knew something was coming.
My view is Israel was just hoping for something over the line to happen and not just a few rockets, so they can start some shit.
Skinny called me out for blaming a dictatorship's ppl for the actions of a government that they had no chance in making a decision on. My view is the Palestine ppl are complicit with Hamas, and even support it. I do feel like Israel probably has a similar sentiment based on the rather lopsided actions in both Gaza against Hamas and in Lebanon against Hezbollah. They have the ability and intelligence, and can totally do a targeted strike but chose not to.
Of course there's also the issue of not escalating with Lebanon, and not alienating a much larger population into supporting a war.
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