In many ways, it feels as though Israel and Hezbollah have been at war for months already.
Almost constant, daily artillery and missile fire across the border with Lebanon has left dozens of soldiers and civilians dead on both sides. More than 80,000 Israeli civilians within range of the fighting have been uprooted from their homes and a drone strike Tuesday in Hezbollah’s heartland of southern Beirut has pushed the temperature of the conflict to the boiling point.
Leaders in both Israel’s government and Hezbollah’s militia are keenly aware that a destructive war involving a possible ground invasion by Israel and the use