Red-hot rhetoric by Israel and Iran has U.S. officials unnerved.
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Top U.S. officials tell us the threats of a war widening from the Gaza Strip are real and rising, forcing the Pentagon to put moresimultaneous global threats rattling top U.S. officials: Israeli-Hamas, the Russia-China axis, North Korea, Iran's saber-rattling and weaponized fake videos hitting every battlefield.Red-hot rhetoric by Israel and Iran — including publicly threatening to widen the war — has U.S. officials on edge.
The No. 1 indicator is how Hezbollah in Lebanon, on Israel's northern border, responds to Israel's expected offensive in Gaza in the south. "If Hezbollah decides to light up northern Israel ... it would be a serious adversary that would require serious resources from Israel to deal with," the senior official told Axios.
The administration's three-part plan is sending a deterrence message to Hezbollah and other actors in the region, trying to get more aid to Palestinians faster, and emphasizing that the war is not with the Palestinian people but with Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip.The U.S. believes Israel "would struggle in a two-front war and that such a conflict could draw in both the United States and Iran, main supporter," the N.Y.
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