https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw5rqzz5jjo

According to this silly man, Paul Adams, the BBC's diplomatic correspondent in Jerusalem, the pager attack on Hezbollah's people will "devastate Hezbollah's moral and manpower". It may indeed do that, but it will also make them very, very angry, and murderous.

He ends though "There are no signs yet of the sort of build up of men and armour that would be needed for a major military incursion, but today’s attacks represent yet another dangerous escalation. It is hard to see how Hezbollah won’t feel compelled to respond in some way."

Indeed it is hard to see anything else but more violence and death and misery, a cold, cynical, clever and corrupt scheme to ensure no peace ensues in Israel or its environs in the Middle East. For every Hezbollah operative injured or killed, like a hydra, two or three more will be born from the spilt blood. What it's actually harder than ever to see is Israel's ultimate survival.