Is Israel intending to start a larger Middle East war?

Scene in Beirut, Lebanon after pagers were remotely exploded.

Yesterday IDF (Israeli Defense Force) fighter jets attacked Beirut, Lebanon killing a top Hezbollah commander along with some of his officers.

This came after days earlier Israel's National Security Agency Mossad-according to MSM reports-remotely detonated thousands of pagers Hezbollah uses to communicate killing some 12 people and injuring thousands. The next day Hezbollah walkie-talkie's were detonated in similar fashion killing two dozen more people.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nesrallah described these Israeli operations as a "declaration of war". [1]

It appears Israel keeps "expanding the envelope" from its war with Hamas in Gaza to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Until these latest incidents there had been sporadic drone and missile strikes across the border between Israel and Lebanon by the two adversaries but neither seemed interested in a full scale war.

Also not to be overlooked in the last few days Israel has moved some of its military units north from Gaza closer to the Lebanese border.

Nesrallah, beyond saying Israel's latest acts are a declaration of war has as yet not ordered a full scale retaliation against Israel.

A few "things" should to be recognized at this point:

Hezbollah, though smaller militarily than the IDF, is much larger than Palestinian Hamas and has thousands of missiles and drones that can strike at the heart of Israel.

With these latest escalations by Israel in particular moving its troops north from Gaza closer to Lebanon's border Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems intent to expand the war in Gaza into a larger conflict against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Though Washington has openly said it doesn't want the Gaza war to expand into a larger conflict in the Middle East its influence over Netanyahu is being ignored.

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