Zionist historian: War with Hezbollah is imminent

A veteran Israeli military historian Aryeh Yitzhaki thinks that the upcoming elections in Israel are deflecting the Israeli public's attention from a war that is brewing north of Israel, just as an election campaign in 1973 distracted Israelis when Arabs were about to launch a surprise offensive.

Yitzhaki told Arutz Sheva that in the course of the last 93 years, there have been 11 major military confrontations between the Zionist military forces and those of what he terms "the Arab national movement."

All of these except one – the War of Independence in 1947/8 – broke out in the summer or early fall, he noted.

While Yitzhaki seems to see some elements of that scenario being repeated, the current situation reminds him more of the situation before the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Elections were supposed to be held that fall and everyone was preoccupied with campaigning until the war broke out.

There are warning signs of an impending conflict that the Israeli public is blind to, he insisted: “The situation on the ground is a boiling lava of hatred and enmity toward the Jews and Israel, and any spark can lead to a much greater eruption.”