An Iranian military commander is warning that there will be a ‘devastating’ response to the recent helicopter missile strike at a site in the Syrian sector of the Golan Heights, reportedly killing 6 Hezbollah operatives as well as Iranian commanders including Jihad Mughniyah, son of a Hezbollah military commander who was killed in a bombing in 2008.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied the strike which Israeli officials quoted by news agencies have said was intended to preempt a planned Hezbollah infiltration into Israel.
Hilal Khashan, a professor of political science at the American University of Beirut. told the Washington Post that Hezbollah will not retaliate because it does not want to go to war with Israel.
Professor Efraim Inbar is a Professor in Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and Director of its renowned Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, he is specialist on Middle Eastern strategic issues with a special interest in the politics and strategy of Israeli national security. Prof. Inbar served in the Israel Defense Force as a paratrooper. He was a member of the Political Strategic Committee of the National Planning Council and the Chair of the Committee for the National Security Curriculum at the Ministry of Education.
