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A Historic Moment: Hassan Nasrallah’s Killing is a Severe Blow to the Iran-led Axis
Spectator Online, 28/9 The killing of Lebanese Hizballah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah by Israel in Beirut on Friday September 27 is a strategic event, transcending the immediate context of the Israel-Hizballah confrontation under way since October 8, 2023. Nasrallah was … Continue reading
Israel Seeks to Drive a Wedge between Hamas and Hizballah
The Spectator, 24/9 Israel this week carried out its largest scale operation against Hizballah targets on Lebanon since the summer war of 2006. Wave after wave, Israeli aircraft struck at 1600 targets across Lebanon, with the emphasis on targeting Hizballah … Continue reading
Iran’s Weapons Route into the West Bank
Jerusalem Post, 7/7 Iran-supported Islamist militias are currently engaged in war against Israel on two fronts. The main focus of combat remains of course the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip. A ‘support front’, as is the preferred term, has been maintained … Continue reading
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An arrest raid in Gush Etzion
Jerusalem Post, 16/2 “You meet the terrorist at the end of the process, on the road, but there’s a whole system that leads up to that point, so if you can hit at what lies behind, and prevent it, then … Continue reading
Who Killed the Three US Soldiers In Tower 22?
Jerusalem Post, 3/2 On Sunday, January 28, three US service personnel from the US Army Reserve’s 718 Engineer Company were killed at the Tower 22 outpost on the Jordan-Syrian border. An additional 34 soldiers were wounded, some suffering traumatic brain … Continue reading
Biden blindsided by Iran
The Spectator, 2/2 The US has failed to stop Iran and its proxies Nine years ago, with Vice President Joe Biden at his side, US President Barack Obama announced the Iran nuclear deal. Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime would eliminate its stockpile of … Continue reading
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War in Israel: the first 72 hours
The Australian, 14-15/10 I was at Heathrow Airport, waiting for a plane back to Israel when messages, initially casual and nonchalant, began to appear on my Whatsapp feed. It was Simchat Torah, the last day of the Jewish High Holy … Continue reading
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50 Years Since the Yom Kippur War
25/9/23 The Yom Kippur War of 1973 cast a shadow over my generation in Israel. It was a distant and partial shadow, nevertheless, with its darkest parts only visible at certain points. Mine, after all, was not the generation that … Continue reading
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Ain al Hilweh fighting reflects Palestinian and Sunni Arab weakness
Jerusalem Post, 23/9 A truce brokered earlier this week by the Lebanese General Security Service to end the ongoing fighting in the Palestinian Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp appears to have broken down, with renewed clashes taking place at various locations … Continue reading
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Tsurkov Kidnapping Shows Who Really Runs Iraq
Jerusalem Post, 28/7 The kidnapping of the Russian-Israeli Princeton doctoral student and Middle East analyst Elizabeth Tsurkov in Baghdad is the latest indication of who really runs Iraq. The Ktaeb Hizballah organization, identified by the government of Israel and by … Continue reading
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