Are these attacks on Hezbollah making Israel more safe?

[kentuck]

No doubt, before these hostilities began, Israel was being provoked every day to react. And predictably, they did. They do not seem to have common sense or diplomacy in their vocabulary. Their first impulse is to strike back and to strike hard. But is that wise? Have they only created conditions that will make their lives more difficult in the future? What do you think?

[existentialist]

1. I think that Israel has made its position more precarious

At some point the exercise of the right to defend oneself--for a country or for an individual--becomes counterproductive. Viewed in economic terms, this could be expressed as the law of diminishing returns being pushed to the point of negative returns.

I don't know for sure, but my guess is that Israel is well into counterproductive territory. Of course part of sovereignty would be the right of each nation to make the choices for those decisions for itself, but I don't think that means that the rest of the world is bound to shut up and not comment on what it perceives to be harmful just because somebody starts waiving the flag called the right to self-defense.