Although the Lebanon-based terrorist organization is currently focused on defending Bashar al-Assad’s control of Syria and Lebanon, recent statements by its leaders are reminders that it has not lost sight of its core mission of destroying Israel. Hizballah has staged a number of small-scale cross-border attacks, and may also be ramping up its old strategy of attacking Jewish and Israeli targets outside the Middle East. Matthew Levitt writes:
This much is clear: Hizballah remains an immediate threat to Israel, even while it is bogged down in Syria. That much [its leader Hassan] Nasrallah wants us all to know. To be sure, roadside border bombings will continue from time to time, and Hizballah may even claim responsibility for some of these. But because of its desire to avoid opening a second front with Israel at the present time, the Hizballah threat to Israel today is in some ways more acute oceans away—in places as far afield as Thailand and Peru—than it is along its northern borders.
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