Posts Tagged: Lebanon blast
From the Second Lebanon War to Regional War
The Israeli government’s decision to launch a ground attack in the last two days of the 2006 Second Lebanon War was controversial. In retrospect, the...
Is Israel Ready to Respond to Rockets From Lebanon?
The recent rocket fire from Lebanon into Israeli territory connects with Hamas’ overall strategy of expanding the scope of the confrontation between itself and Israel...
Is Lebanon on the Verge of a Military Coup?
A combination of sectarian politics, ethnic divide, animosity, and corruption has brought Lebanon -- the country once called the "Paris of the Middle East" --...
The Laundromat: Hezbollah’s Money-Laundering and Drug-Trafficking Networks in Latin America
On January 6, 2021, the Gulf news network Al Arabiya published an explosive revelation. In late 2016, a high-placed Hezbollah operative named Nasser Abbas Bahmad came...
The IDF Could Be Making a Horrible Mistake if It Doesn’t Confront Hezbollah
JNS.org - After a Hezbollah anti-aircraft missile was fired at an IDF drone on a reconnaissance mission over Lebanon on Wednesday, Israel has found itself...
Lebanon Is a Terror Hub
JNS.org - Legendary American broadcaster Edward R. Murrow once stated, “No one can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” Morrow’s warning, while...
Lebanon’s Economic Quicksand
JNS.org - “Lebanon is the Titanic without the orchestra,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian stated on December 13, 2020. “The Lebanese are in complete...
Israel and Lebanon to Open Negotiations
Following the assassination of Lebanon’s President Bashir Jumail in September 1982, he was replaced by his brother Amin. At the time, Israel was mired in...
Hopeful Signs as Israel-Lebanon Maritime Boundary Negotiations Are About to Begin
JNS.org - After a rift of more than 30 years since any meaningful negotiations took place between Lebanon and Israel, the two countries have now agreed...
Israel Reveals the Weapons Hidden Behind Lebanon’s Civilians — and No One Cares
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed on September 29, in an address broadcast to the UN General Assembly, the locations of Hezbollah’s production...
Hezbollah’s Secret Weapons Arsenals — Now What?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently addressed the UN General Assembly, alerting the international community about the discovery of Hezbollah’s new weapons arsenal in Beirut,...
Hezbollah: Caught in the Horns of a Deterrence Dilemma
As a consequence of recent events and its own ill-advised declarations, Hezbollah finds itself caught on the horns of a strategic deterrence dilemma. The Khomeinist-Shiite...
Can France Bring Stability to Crisis-Plagued Lebanon?
French president Emmanuel Macron visited Lebanon on September 1 -- ostensibly to mark the centennial of the country’s independence, but also as a follow-up to...
US Aid to Lebanon Helps Hezbollah
JNS.org - The massive explosion that rocked Beirut on August 4 not only inflicted warlike damage on Lebanon’s capital city; it also exposed a subversive...
