As time has dragged on and the certainty of retaliation also grows, more and more analysts have asked why Israel should wait to be hit with unprecedented power from these two enemy states if it can instead hit them first and reduce the effectiveness of the expected attacks.
With rife speculation about what preemptive strikes might look like, The Jerusalem Post dug into the issue and found that a variety of factors must be treated differently in the IDF’s thinking, rather than be lumped together.
First, there is much more IDF support for preemptively striking Hezbollah than for preemptively striking Iran.
Many IDF officials have wanted to strike Hezbollah since October 11, and Lebanon is a much smaller and closer territory, and one that the IDF can relatively easily enter with ground forces simultaneously with a massive air attack. READ MORE
