Israel and Hezbollah’s Great Game of Chicken

A Hezbollah bunker on display at the group’s museum in Mleeta, south Lebanon (Michal Kranz)

The violent exchange between Hezbollah and Israel that took place on Sunday was the most dramatic military confrontation between the two in years. In response to Israeli attacks against its media office in southern Beirut and its fighters in Syria, Hezbollah fired several anti-tank missiles at an Israeli military vehicle, and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) responded by firing around 100 artillery shells into…