A shift in strategy: How Israel’s recent strikes mark its military emancipation - opinion
Perhaps the strikes of July 30/31 are the beginning of the Jewish state’s emancipation from the impossible military and diplomatic handcuffs that Washington and others have sought to slap on it.
HEZBOLLAH-AFFILIATED civil defense members stand near a damaged building in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the day after an Israeli strike in which Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, was killed. (photo credit: MOHAMED AZAKIR/REUTERS)ByDAVID M. WEINBERG