An Israeli campaign that started with high hopes has devolved into a kind of impasse, with Hezbollah looking more capable than it did when the war began, The new York Times introduced its article which discusses how Hezbollah Thwarted the Israeli strategy in Lebanon.

NYT indicated that the recent threat made by the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his war minister Israel Katz to bomb Beirut’s Dayieh reflects the fight was falling short.

“And when Israel backed down from that threat a few hours later, the decision pointed up just how much it had been backed into a corner — stuck between domestic pressure to hit Hezbollah hard, and American pressure to constrain its attacks in Lebanon.”

‘Israel’ did not seem to be ready for Hezbollah’s widespread use of explosive “first-person-view” drones, which are controlled with fiber-optic cables that unspool for miles and are unsusceptible to electronic jamming, the article added.

It is now a kind of deadlock in which Hezbollah suddenly looks more capable than it did when the war began and the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces can look startlingly helpless, according to NYT.

Assaf Orion, a retired Israeli brigadier general who is now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Israel appeared to be forgetting the hard lessons it learned after it invaded Lebanon in 1982 (an invasion that inspired the creation of Hezbollah).

Source: The New York Times