Ronen Bergman

So,

People forget that before October 7th, it was Hezbollah who was considered to be the most fierce and threatening enemy of Israel.

And Israel devoted so much preparing for such a war.

They knew one day they will need to fight Hezbollah.

To the extent they didn't put enough attention to Hamas.

Then Hamas started October 7th.

Hezbollah joined the war on a low level and it accelerated through a year.

And then in September 24, Israel broke the world and they exploded some 3,500 pagers.

that were on the waste of Hezbollah operatives.

And then for 10 days, they continued to hammer Hezbollah.

They killed the commanders.

They killed the troops.

They exploded the bunkers.

And Hezbollah had to stand down and agree then to a ceasefire with humiliating terms.

This was all quite extraordinary.

military intelligence, operational success.

But as it happened in this war, Prime Minister Netanyahu was not satisfied just with this victory.

He had to add more.

And he basically said to the Israeli public, Israel decimated Hezbollah.

We removed the threat.