Senior state officials in Jerusalem and senior IDF officers have been making a concerted diplomatic and PR effort in recent days to prevent an escalation, and maybe even a war in the north, as a result of erroneous Iranian and Syrian evaluations of the situation since the round of fighting in the north this past weekend.

The reactions of official Iranian and Syrian sources, as well as the response issued by Hezbollah, have been carefully analyzed in Jerusalem and in the Kirya Base in Tel Aviv. The conclusion is that the “Shiite axis” got carried away in its enthusiasm, reaching dangerous conclusions from the downing of the Israeli plane.

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