Posts Tagged: Israel Lebanon
Can Israel and Hezbollah Stave Off a Dangerous Escalation — or Even War?
JNS.org - Israel and Hezbollah are again embroiled in a perilous dynamic of escalation. How things unfold, as always, depends on the degree of self-restraint and...
Lessons Learned From the Second Lebanon War
Fourteen years have passed since the eruption of the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Now is an appropriate time to assess the conflict. While the Middle East has dramatically changed in...
A View From the IDF: Lessons Learned Since Leaving Lebanon
JNS.org - The generation of commanders that I and other officers in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)’s general staff are a part of cut its...
Israel’s Flight From South Lebanon, 20 Years On
In the dead of night on May 24, 2000, 18 years after invading Lebanon with the expressed goal of removing the longstanding terrorist threat to...
Israel vs. Hezbollah: Is the Third Lebanon War Inevitable?
Tensions between Israel and Iran’s Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, have reached the point where war might well ensue. Neither side wants this, at least not right...
Lebanese and Iraqi Protesters Transcend Sectarianism
“One, one, one, we are one people,” is a popular slogan among Lebanese protesters, irrespective of their denomination. On October 27, tens of thousands of...
Hezbollah May Be Down, but It’s Not Out
JNS.org - With all the astonishment at the massive Hezbollah terror tunnel project revealed this week by the IDF, the tunnels themselves were just a...
Hezbollah Has No Respect for Human Life
JNS.org - After the Israeli military announced the discovery of several Hezbollah attack tunnels near its northernmost border with Lebanon, Metula resident Michael Mezeika noted that...
How America Helps Hezbollah
JNS.org - The terror organization Hezbollah has built tunnels from Lebanese territory into northern Israel; their intention was infiltration. It turns out, however, that IDF...
Israelis Must Stop Playing Into Hezbollah’s Hands
JNS.org - The operation to eliminate Hezbollah’s terror tunnels, which Israel launched last week, is further testimony to the superiority of the IDF in the...
Through Rapid Raids, IDF’s Special Forces Will Play Critical Role in Any Hezbollah War
JNS.org - At the end of November, the Israeli military’s Commando Brigade held a secretive war exercise, which sheds light on how Israel is preparing...
Netanyahu’s Northern Tightrope Act
JNS.org - Over the past two years, Hezbollah has displayed an increasing presence in the area stretching south of the Litani River to the Israeli...
Hezbollah’s War on Israel Takes Precedence Over Bibi
JNS.org - Maybe you thought that the discovery of tunnels built by Hezbollah under the border between Lebanon and Israel would generate a full-scale debate...
What About the Diplomatic Angle Against Hezbollah?
JNS.org - The operation to neutralize Hezbollah’s attack tunnels is a tactical achievement, and a technological and intelligence success for the IDF. But alongside these accolades, we...
