The longer this goes, the longer it will look like they are waiting for Tisha b'Av.
This is the last day of the Three Weeks, a period of gradually increasing mourning for national tragedies that occurred during these days. Tisha b’Av is the saddest day of the Jewish year, commemorated by the most intense mourning practices of this period.
As far as Tisha b’Av, the Talmud (Taanis 29a) says the date was established as a day of mourning because God metaphorically said, “Since you cried for no reason, I’ll give you something to cry about!”
Was this the connotation of Nasrallah's statement: ""You laughed a bit, but you will cry a lot. " ?
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393976
The primary tragedies we mourn on Tisha b’Av are the destructions of the two Temple, each of which was destroyed on this date – the first by the Babylonians and the second, hundreds of years later, by the Romans. Each destruction resulted in an exile, the latter of which we are still experiencing.
Other tragedies we recognize on this date include the destruction of the city of Beitar in 133 CE, effectively ending Bar Kochba’s revolt against the Roman occupiers, and the subsequent plowing of the Temple Mount by the Romans.
Many later tragedies also occurred on this date, including the expulsion of Jews from England in 1290 and from Spain in 1492.
Hmm! Aug 12/13 ???
https://www.ou.org/holidays/what-is-tisha-bav/