About a month ago, and when I was in Beirut, Lebanese secu­rity exposed an Israeli assas­sins cell, that is well doc­u­mented and I saw it myself on the Lebanese TV [Until today Israel never denied their link to the cell].

Lebanon says Israeli spy cell exposed

Which is a vio­la­tion to UN secu­rity res­o­lu­tion 1559 [PDF].

The Lebanese gov­ern­ment was plan­ning to sub­mit a for­mal com­plaint against Israel to the UN Secu­rity Council.

Guess who pre­vented Lebanon from doing so?

diplo­matic pres­sure that has been placed on the Lebanese gov­ern­ment, par­tic­u­larly by U.S. Ambas­sador Jef­frey Feltman.….Feltman even hinted that the affair might neg­a­tively influ­ence American-Lebanese rela­tions and U.S. mil­i­tary aid to Lebanon.

[This page was removed from Haaretz, but the cache link is still there].

[Iron­i­cally, found this head­line yes­ter­day: Israel weigh­ing UN com­plaint against Lebanon]

This was the back­ground of the last weeks events and who Hizbal­lah pre­pared them­selves to hit­back Israel.
We miss one link here:

Hamas

Just one day before Hizballah’s assault [on Mon­day nighturgent meet­ing, Abbas met with Abdul­lah for approx­i­mately 3 hours and then went back home.

Offi­cially, the meet­ing was about:

He and the Jor­dan­ian King Abdal­lah II dis­cussed a num­ber of ideas to end the issue of the Israeli sol­dier abducted by Pales­tin­ian fac­tions in Gaza.

Ideas being dis­cussed to end Gaza Strip cri­sis — Abbas

Unof­fi­cially:

Sources from Pales­tini­ans in Beirut, the meet­ing was about Abdullah’s secret plan [dic­tated by the US and Israel] to over­throw Hamas government.

Hamas already made a deal with Hizbal­lah to syn­chro­nize their attack in less than 24 hours after the meet­ing, turn­ing the table around and using the sit­u­a­tion in their advantage.

[Hizbal­lah was ready for this action at least amonth ago but Hamas aksed them to delay it few weeks]

What­ever hap­pens in the com­ing days, Hia­ballh and Hamas suc­ceeded to score few points at least among Pales­tini­ans and Shiia com­mu­nity in Lebanon.

Bring­ing the ME issue again in the front pages, prov­ing that if Israel really wants peace, then they must sit and nego­ti­ate with them.