As Israel wages an air and land war against Lebanon's Hezbollah in the midst of an ongoing joint campaign with the United States against Iran, a senior Israeli diplomat told Newsweek that a decisive victory across the northern border could set the stage for the biggest regional shift in decades—perhaps ever—in the nation's history. Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has been surrounded by enemies, first battling Arab coalitions and then an Iran-aligned Axis of Resistance that has been in open