Another Hezbollah-Israel War Could Spark Regional Conflagration, Expert Says

As Israel appears poised to launch a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, its main enemy to the north, the Iran-backed Hezbollah, may open up another front, sparking a war that could impact the entire region.

Nicholas Blanford, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and author of the 2011 book Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollah’s Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel, believes Hezbollah and Israel are at the closest point to war since they last fought a destructive month-long conflict in 2006.