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Direct retaliatory strikes mark a new phase of the Islamic Republic’s conflict with Israel.
The Hizbullah leader all but made it clear that a larger war is inevitable but he did not want to be the one to announce it.
The sectarian rifts, which were opened by George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, continue to tear apart the Middle East, now involving Syria and Lebanon. Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia, has plunged into Syria to fight Sunni-led rebels, as ex-CIA…