@inamarina who wrote like this, whilst my responses appear like this.
Okay, so I did go back and reread what you said on the other thread.
So it’s the Hamas rockets that you’ve described as “really of no consequence” and causing “very few fatalities”. Exactly. Hamas and Hezbollah are two very different military identities. They are each armed very differently.
You then said Hezbollah did possess more sophisticated ballistic missiles, but they wouldn’t use them unless attacked. I did
You also said “Remember it is Israel that has escalated the situation on its northern border, not Hezbollah.” You've now started quoting additional material, but yes, I did say that.
That does make it sound as if you thought Israel attacked Hezbollah first and not the other way round. No it doesn't. It makes no mention of who started it. It only sounds like that if you can't tell the difference between the words escalation and initiation.
You also seem to regard the rockets Hezbollah have been firing at Israel since last October 8th as of little consequence, because apparently they somehow don’t count? How do you glean that ?
So how exactly is what I said in my previous post wildly inaccurate? You claimed that I'd said Hezbollah rockets were of no consequence, when I hadn't.
Rockets and ballistic missiles and cruise missiles are Hezbollah's greatest threat. They have many tens of thousands of them. The doomsday weapon with which they threaten Israel, is a massive salvo. Iron dome, David's sling and Arrow 2/3 can only cope with so much at any one time. Iron dome is a battery that needs time to reload. I guess that Iran's April reprisal of a swarm of missiles and drones and rockets, was a way to see just how Israel's defences would react to multiple threats.
But Hezbollah knows that if it were it to fire off a barrage of thousands, all hell would rain down with Israel's retaliation and at the moment neither Israel nor Hezbollah want that scenario. Things haven't got that bad, yet.
Both sides have been working under containment, and although measured it has slowly been ratcheting up, and according to Mehdi Hasan, over 80% of the ordinance fired across that border has been fired by Israel.
Then came the assassinations and the pagers etc. and its now up to a new level.
Apparently Nasrallah and Netanyahu had both agreed to a ceasefire about ten days before he was killed.