Are Israel and Hezbollah escalating their conflict to avoid war?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
According to reports, Israel and Hezbollah are escalating their conflict to persuade the other side to take steps that will avert all-out war. Both are using conflict to prevent a greater conflict, but this strategy is not limited to the Middle East. Today, we discuss three ways humans deal with conflict, and then point to the only solution that brings lasting peace.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Wednesday, September 25th, |
| 0:07.0 | 2024. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:17.0 | Hezbollah fired a missile at Israel's Mossad spy agency headquarters near Tel Aviv today, |
| 0:23.2 | claiming it is responsible for the assassination of several of the group's leaders. |
| 0:28.3 | Alerts sent residents scrambling into shelters as the missiles approached. |
| 0:32.6 | Israel said its air defenses intercepted the missile. |
| 0:36.0 | This, after Israel said, it killed a senior Hezbollah commander Tuesday |
| 0:40.8 | and struck 1,600 Hezbollah targets the day before. |
| 0:44.9 | The U.S. is sending more troops to the Middle East as Hezbollah and Israel continue to launch waves of strikes |
| 0:51.6 | in the worst violence since their 2006 war. |
| 0:54.8 | And yet, the Associated Press reports, quote, |
| 0:58.2 | no one is calling it a war. |
| 0:59.9 | The reason points to a way forward in this escalating conflict, |
| 1:03.8 | one with ramifications for all of us, |
| 1:06.3 | wherever we live, and whatever challenges we face today. |
| 1:09.9 | Writing for the publication Foreign Policy, |
| 1:12.6 | near East Scholar Hanin Gadar notes, quote, Israel could be escalating today to avoid war, |
| 1:20.0 | that is, to push Hezbollah to accept the only diplomatic solution on the table. |
| 1:24.8 | End quote. This solution would require Hezbollah to delink Lebanon from Gaza, |
| 1:30.4 | accept a separate ceasefire agreement with Israel, withdraw its military presence to north of the |
| 1:36.1 | Latani River, roughly 18 miles from the border, and allowed displaced Israelis to return |
| 1:41.9 | safely to the northern region of their country. Israelis |
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