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Israel risking disastrous war against Hezbollah for political reasons, says former US official
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Harrison Mann, military expert who quit over Gaza, says ruinous war in Lebanon would pull US into regional conflict
Israel risks going to war against Hezbollah to ensure Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival, but it would be a miscalculation that could lead to mass civilian deaths in both Lebanon and Israel, a former US military intelligence analyst has warned.
Harrison Mann, a major in the Defence Intelligence Agency who left the military last month over US support for Israel’s war in Gaza, also told the Guardian that such a disastrous new war would pull the US into a regional conflict.
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