As the people of Lebanon come to terms with the attacks on communication devices that killed and maimed many, the Israeli public seems divided between elation over the attacks and nervousness over potential repercussions.
Few regard the threat posed to Israel by Hezbollah to have been significantly reduced by the attacks. Israel has been massing troops to the north ostensibly in a bid to allow the return of 60,000 residents evacuated from there.
These were daring attacks, Mitchell Barak, a pollster and former aide to senior Israeli political figures, said from Jerusalem. If they were carried out by Israel... they've reinforced our reputation as start-up nation’.
Barak stressed that both the unique nature of the attack and the level of infiltration required to carry it out had embarrassed Hezbollah.
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