After almost 14 months of fighting that included numerous stunningly effective combat operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday night.
Though the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal proclaimed victory for Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and advisers, notably, didn’t go that far in their public statements and private briefings, instead promising that Israel would achieve its long-sought “total victory” in the future. “The war will not end until we realize all its goals, including the return of the residents of the north safely home,” Netanyahu stressed.
That stance was born, at least in part, out of a recognition that the ceasefire and its untested enforcement mechanism will result in complicated scenarios for Israel as it tries to maintain security for its citizens in the face of all-but-certain Hezbollah attempts to regroup and threaten Israel.
Read the full article at the Times of Israel.
