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Hizbullah's Tunnels Offer Peek at Looming Conflict with Israel
(The Hill) Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Kenneth Glueck, Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Michael Tucker and Lt.-Col. Geoffrey Corn - Israeli engineers have been neutralizing Hizbullah's sophisticated cross-border infiltration tunnels which embody its ongoing efforts to threaten substantial harm to Israeli civilians. They are also a reminder of the potential for major destruction and suffering that would befall both Israeli and Lebanese civilians in another conflict on Israel's northern front. These concerns were central to the Jewish Institute for National Security of America's (JINSA) Hybrid Warfare Task Force and its fact-finding mission to Israel earlier this year. Years of fighting alongside Russian and Iranian forces in Syria have transformed Hizbullah into a formidable military force capable of launching raids into Israel. These raids will target Israeli civilian communities, seeking to inflict as many casualties, take as many hostages, and cause as much destruction as possible before withdrawing. Hizbullah's ultimate goal will be to defeat Israel politically, by exploiting public reaction to the inevitable destruction and suffering Hizbullah's own aggression will produce.