“President Biden urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt a pre-emptive strike in opposition to Hezbollah forces in Lebanon days after Hamas militants’ Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel, warning that such an assault may spark a wider regional struggle,” the Wall Road Journal studies.
“Israel had intelligence—which the U.S. deemed unreliable—that Hezbollah attackers have been making ready to cross the border as a part of a multipronged assault, pushing a few of Israel’s extra hawkish officers to the brink.”
