International security
An exchange of lethal attacks during the past
fortnight between Israel and Hezbollah has raised the risk that escalation of
fighting between these old antagonists might be added to the intractable mess
that Syria already is. Israel and Hezbollah have a long history of tit-for-tat
reprisals, with the most conspicuous examples involving Hezbollah titting in
response to Israeli tatting. The two major car bomb attacks by Hezbollah in
Buenos Aires in the early 1990s, for example, were each a direct response to
deadly actions that Israel had taken back in the Middle East a month or six
weeks earlier.
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