Nasrallah’s speech: Declaring war to avoid it

Hassan Nasrallah has set the bar very high. On Wednesday, he made a speech unlike any of his since Oct. 7.This time, Hezbollah’s Secretary General raised the tone, saying that his party acquired new weapons that could cause direct losses in various parts of Israel, including deep into Israel.Cyprus also received its share of Nasrallah’s threats, mainly because of the repeated Israeli military drills there. Nasrallah fears that if Hezbollah targets Israeli airports, Tel Aviv would use Cypriot airports to strike Lebanon.According to a Western diplomatic source, “Nasrallah’s threats go beyond Nicosia to Europe and the US, which have military bases and intelligence facilities on Cypriot soil that provide information to the Israelis, particularly in terms of eavesdropping and telecommunications.”In Hezbollah’s circles, however, it is said...