On September 23, the Israel Defense Forces announced the start of a “preemptive military operation” against the Lebanese group Hezbollah. The stated goal is the complete destruction of the group’s infrastructure in Lebanon. Why should Israel fight there too?
In the “What Happened” podcast we talk about this with Israeli journalist Alexandra Appelberg and orientalist-Arabist Maxim Zhabko.
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0:00 Escalation with Hezbollah
06:35 About the ground operation
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