A Hezbollah funeral for one of its fighters killed in Syria. (YouTube/Channel 4 News)
Aaron David Miller, CNN: The next war in the Middle East?
(CNN)The death in Syria last week of Mustafa Badriddine, Hezbollah's top operational commander in Syria, automatically and inevitably raised the fear of another confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah. After all, Lebanese media close to Hezbollah had been quick to accuse the Israelis of killing its storied terror operative.
Hezbollah soon suggested that Israel was not, after all, responsible. Instead, it announced that its man was killed by insurgent groups that the Lebanese Shia militia has been fighting in Syria. Yet while we may never find out the exact circumstances of Badriddine's death, and while the potential for a new and deadly war in the Middle East has, for the time being, been averted, the truth is that an Israeli-Lebanese war that could plunge the Middle East into even greater chaos remains a genuine possibility.
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WNU Editor: I do not see such a conflict happening right now. Hezbollah is focused on the war in Syria, and opening a second front against Israel will only result in a massive Israeli military operation that would seriously undermine and disrupt current Syrian-Russian-Iranian operations against Syrian rebel forces.
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