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Source: https://www.jns.org/hezbollah-tests-waters-in-the-north-to-find-firm-israeli-readiness/
Israel Is Prepared for Hizbullah in the North
(JNS) Yaakov Lappin - Hizbullah has initiated a series of fire exchanges with Israel, and is discovering a high degree of Israeli operational readiness. "We have Hizbullah and Palestinian factions in Lebanon, and we are prepared to deal with them. We have deployed forces and are on very high alert," Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, former head of the Research and Assessment Division of Israeli Military Intelligence, said Tuesday. When a fellow member of the Iranian terror axis - Hamas - is under pressure, "they feel committed to come to [its] support, and show that they care and want to help. They also want to kill Israelis and Jews no less than Hamas; they are part of the same ideology, the certain distorted interpretation of Islam. This is something that would give them a lot of joy." On the other hand, Hizbullah is hearing clearly from the rest of Lebanon that it does not want to get dragged into a war that would lead to country-wide devastation for the sake of Hamas. In addition, Hizbullah "can't catch Israel by surprise" at this stage after the IDF deployed considerable forces to the north in recent days. "With their capabilities, Hizbullah are supposed to be a shield for Iran in case Israel wants to attack Iranian nuclear facilities, so why use it now for the sake of Palestinians and then leave Iran helpless if Israel or the U.S. decides to operate against Iranian nuclear facilities?" "We definitely can handle two fronts once the military is deployed and mobilized; this is not a big issue. We already paid such a heavy price that you cannot threaten us with paying heavy prices."