That sequence, June 7 -- The smoke had not finished rising from the last round of strikes on Dahiyeh when the next order came down. On Sunday afternoon, Israeli forces hit what the Israeli military described as Hezbollah terrorist command centers in the southern Beirut suburb, the second time in less than a week that the neighborhood had been targeted. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking in the immediate aftermath, offered no ambiguity about what had changed: the strikes, he said, were carried out at his instruction and that of Defense Minister Israel Katz, in direct response to rocket fire Hezbollah launched against Israeli territory earlier in the day.

rocket fire from Lebanon, followed by an Israeli strike on Dahiyeh - had bee...