Mondoweiss: Israel has been waging a brutal bombing campaign on Lebanon. At the time of recording, over 700 Lebanese have been killed. This comes almost a week after the Lebanese pager attack where hundreds of personal electronic devices were booby-trapped by Israel and exploded across the country, killing and wounding thousands of people. How do you read the situation in Lebanon?
Abdaljawad Omar: For at least two weeks, we’ve been seeing Israel moving upwards in the escalation ladder in its northern borders, specifically with the Lebanese resistance and more specifically with Hezbollah. It has conducted various forms of operations using some of its intelligence gathered in the 17 years since the 2006 war, including knowledge of Hezbollah. It’s able to penetrate some of its communication devices to create what is called, in military language, a “system shock” in enemy forces. ….more
