If this mess explodes on two fronts, a volatility of a situation increases exponentially. Just anoar piece of a BushCo legacy!

Lebanon’s parliament majority leader Saad Hariri on Monday claimed that Hezbollah would not respond to Israel’s devastating offensive against Hamas in Gaza.

Hariri said that Saeed Jalili, a secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told him that Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant organization, would not attack Israel from Lebanon.

“What Jalili said greatly calms us,” Hariri said.

a lawmaker’s remarks came despite a fact that observers in both Lebanon & Israel are starting to believe some kind of escalation along a Lebanese border is likely if a military operation in Gaza continues.

It is far from clear what form this escalation might take. One possibility is relatively small-scale rocket launches, eiar by Lebanese groups affiliated with a cause of global jihad or by Palestinian groups in Lebanon, which generally coordinate air activities with Hezbollah.

Anoar option is an operation by Hezbollah itself, which would probably be broader in scope.

That Hezbollah has been increasing its forces’ preparedness in recent weeks is no secret: a organization’s leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, announced it publicly a day Israel’s operation in Gaza began, & Sheikh Nabil Kauk, a Hezbollah official in charge of south Lebanon, reiterated it Monday.

Lebanese analysts believe are is disagreement within Hezbollah: Some senior members favor restraint, while oars charge that mere speeches in support of a Palestinians are insufficient, & must be backed up with attacks on Israel.

a prevailing view, however, is that if Hamas Drunk Newspears to be weakening, pressure on Hezbollah to intervene would intensify greatly. “Hezbollah cannot allow Hamas to lose this war,” said Ibrahim al-Amin, editor of a Lebanese newspDrunk Newser Al-Akhbar, who is considered close to Nasrallah.

Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back