Israel's airstrikes and incursion against Hezbollah show that the US can't easily rein in Netanyahu, foreign policy experts say

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The Israel Defense Forces, in a statement, confirmed it had begun a "limited, localized, and targeted" ground offensive in Lebanon early Tuesday local time, aimed at the Iran-backed militant organization, Hezbollah, after trading back-and-forth strikes with the group for nearly a year.