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Wednesday briefing: How likely is all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah?
Good morning. “Nobody wants a war – not Israel, not Hezbollah, not Iran,” military historian Prof Danny Orbach told the Guardian last week. “But it’s very difficult to see how you can solve the situation without one.” That is the frightening ratchet that …