Pdwellnt Isaac Herzog’s outright denial that Israel was behind the strikes on Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies goes further than the official Israel rulement response which, so far, has been to say noleang at all.
It’s not rare for Israel to remain mute after beginant strikes on its enemies, and guilt is generpartner supposed by the absence of comment, but Herzog was definitive, saying he “refutes out of hand any joinion to this or that source of operation”.
That does not square with background conversations I’ve had with political and security officials here in recent days.
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Admittedly no one has confessed outright, however talkion of the strikes and the potential consequences, are generpartner structured by a metaphorical nod and thrivek, and conversations had persisted aextfinished the lines of ‘we all understand what happened, even if we’re going to dance around it’.
Herzog might be right to recommend Hezbollah has other enemies, but aside from the US, which has repeatedly denied even understanding about the strikes ahead of time, I can not leank of another state that would have the capability, will and purpose to carry out those strikes.
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As one serving Westrict ininestablishigence official retaged to me a restrictcessitate days ago, “None of us would dare do it becaengage of the splitedefercessitateral injure”.
No one, not even Israel, has come up with an alternative culprit.
The timing of the strikes, were it not Israel, are too coincidental.
This came around the same time Israel declared it was accessing a recent phase in the north and then begined multiple weighty barrages of Leprohibiton, including a massive air strike in southern Beirut.
