Lebanon is recklessly jeopardizing its sovereignty and its future as a nation, not to mention the safety of its citizens, by allowing Hezbollah to chart its destiny. Hezbollah, having fired thousands of rockets, missiles and drones at Israel since last October, is almost entirely responsible for Israel’s unavoidable decision to invade southern Lebanon on September […]
October 7, a day of infamy, has been seared into the hearts and minds of Israeli and Diaspora Jews, a catastrophe never to be forgotten. If October 6 seemed like a normal day in Israel, October 7 was radically and tragically different. Preceded by a massive rocket barrage, it was soaked by the blood of […]
The Middle East was on the abyss following two consequential events of immense magnitude — Israel’s incursion into Lebanon on September 30 and Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel less than a day later. In what was described as a limited and targeted operation, Israel invaded Lebanon for the third time in 46 years, following […]
Iran faces a defining moment of truth following Israel’s audacious assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on September 27. Nasrallah’s untimely death, a major castastrophe for Hezbollah, was an extremely severe blow to Iran. By all accounts, his removal from the scene elicited shock, anger and sorrow in Tehran. In one devastating stroke, […]
With the game-changing death of its long-serving secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah has been dealt a devastating blow in its long-running armed confrontation with Israel. He was killed on September 27 after Israeli aircraft dropped bunker-busting bombs on Hezbollah’s central headquarters in Dahiya, a southern suburb of Beirut. Four to six high-rise residential buildings were […]
Israel is fighting a two-front war along its southern and northern borders, battling Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both of which are Iranian proxies. But far in the east, in Iraq, Israel faces another enemy in the guise of the Islamic Resistance movement, a member of Iran’s fiercely anti-Israel Axis of […]
Israel and Hezbollah have boxed themselves into a tight corner as the cross-border conflict in Lebanon and the Galilee intensifies and approaches the magnitude of an all-out war. In the past few days, both sides have hammered each other ferociously and relentlessly, with the scale of the fighting having reached the level of the 2006 […]
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has announced a “new phase” in Israel’s nearly year-long war of attrition with Hezbollah. It could well lead to a full-scale war with Hezbollah and possibly trigger a regional conflagration involving the United States, Iran, the Houthis in Yemen and pro-Iranian militias in Iraq. In short, a significant escalation of […]
How long can Israel tolerate the intolerable status quo along its northern border with Lebanon? Since October 8, Israel has been embroiled in a low-intensity war of attrition with Hezbollah — Hamas’ ally and Iran’s chief proxy in the Middle East — that has periodically degenerated into a full-scale war. Hezbollah’s secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, has […]
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s recent decision to suspend the export of some weapons to Israel was disappointing but not surprising. Starmer, the leader of the left-of-center Labor Party, is far more critical of Israel than his right-wing Conservative predecessor, Rishi Sunak, who was generally supportive of Israel’s just military campaign to eradicate Hamas and […]