Many fear Israel and Hezbollah are heading for all-out war – but here’s why that’s far from inevitable | Lina Khatib

One of the tragedies in the will-they-won’t-they game playing out between Israel and Hezbollah is that it diverts attention from Palestine. Hezbollah’s fight with Israel is not about helping Palestinians, or even Hamas, but about pursuing self-preservation for Hezbollah. The group could have intervened on a large scale in October before Israel significantly weakened Hamas’s military capability, but it did not. Hezbollah would only engage in all-out war with Israel if the group felt it was facing an existential threat of its own (which, currently, it does not). It will not sacrifice itself for Palestine.