US stopped Israel from launching Hezbollah war in October based on false alarm - report

[Eko]

In the opening days of the war, the US frantically tried to reach senior Israeli officials huddled to plan a major strike on Hezbollah to tell them they were not acting rationally and relying on bad intelligence, according to a US report Wednesday.

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan eventually managed to pass a dictated note to Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer warning him against launching a preemptive strike against Hezbollah on October 11, according to the Atlantic, which provided further revelations on the 90-minute panic in Israel that evening over a suspected invasion by the Iran-backed terror group.

Sullivan failed to directly get a hold of Dermer, who was locked in the cabinet meeting. Instead, he dictated a short note to the minister through his chief of staff, which was said to read: “You’re not making rational decisions. You’re acting in the fog of war on the basis of bad intelligence.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-details-how-us-stopped-israel-launching-hezbollah-war-based-on-false-alarm/

The rest is an interesting read and worth it.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Can't wait for the Israeli Truth and Reconciliation Commission to convene.