The AP reports:
Hezbollah’s war against Israel never stopped, so turgid threats to “resume” the conflict ring a bit hollow. They can–and most likely will–intensify their usual operations against Israel in the form of rocket attacks against Israeli population centers, attempted kidnappings, suicide bombings, etc., but the notion that Israel broke some kind of ceasefire with this attack is pure propaganda. If Israel was indeed behind Mughniyeh’s death, we owe them a pat on the back. We’ve had a vested interest in seeing this guy dead since he took 241 Marines from us in 1983, a Navy diver in 1985, and 19 soldiers and airmen in 1996. Bob Baer, a career spook with ops time in Lebanon, called him the “grail” that we’ve been after for over two decades. So if Hezbollah’s retaliation grants Israel the opportunity to send a few of Mughniyeh’s buddies to join him, I won’t shed any tears.
