[Learned]

Those who are expecting Hezbollah's response to come in the form of a single "event" that serves to undermine the larger and more encompassing strategic considerations of the movement in its resistance against Israel, simply do not understand the stage at which the current confrontation is being waged - and they were not listening very well to SHN during the funeral a year ago. The response to the assassination is not and shall not be a matter of theatre, and therefore it will not be carried out theatrically - for there is no utility in this, and the proponents of the erroneous supposition that Hezbollah cannot afford to work behind the scenes and away from publicizing the theatre of war, whether that theater is open or concealed, do not have the slightest grasp either of the nature of this war, the nature of Hezbollah, or of Hezbollah's history for that matter. Furthermore, the response itself it is not confined to the annotations of a single event or incident that may transpire. It is, rather, more accurately described as an ongoing process, or a string of carefully planned and coordinated operations, events, decisions, measures, and incidents, that will all culminate into a drastic strategic shift signaling the preponderance of Hezbollah's standing in the face of Israeli belligerence.

This much is abundantly clear.