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What is Hezbollah, and will it intervene in Israel-Hamas war?
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A demonstrator waving the Hezbollah flag in Beirut on Oct 20. The group is arguably the most critical armed Islamist movement in the Middle East currently.
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LONDON – Amid a growing danger of a confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah – the Iranian proxy militia in Lebanon – the current consensus is that neither Hezbollah nor its backers and bankrollers in Iran are interested in entering the Israel-Hamas war, despite issuing many blood-curdling threats against the Jewish state.
But the snag is that all actors in the current showdown can stumble into a war that none wants.
