“Hezbollah’s activity and presence on the border fence, the IDF’s passive operational posture and the lack of full deployment of technological means created a situation in which the abduction of the soldiers was just a matter of time,” the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee wrote in the aftermath of the Second Lebanon War, which was triggered when the Shi’ite terrorist group kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.
It’s hard not to see the similarities between what happened back then, almost exactly 17 years ago, and the unfolding reality today, especially in light of the footage showing balaclava-wearing terrorists moving freely so close to the border and observing Israel without even an inkling of fear.
