Posts Tagged: Lebanon Israel
Israeli PM to Push France on Iran, Warn Hezbollah ‘Playing With Fire’
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Tuesday that he will press French President Emmanuel Macron on the Iranian nuclear negotiations and urge a tougher...
A New Lucrative Gas Field Is Straining Relations Between Israel and Lebanon
The recent arrival of a gas rig off the coast of Israel has invited renewed media attention to the simmering tensions between Israel and Lebanon...
Hezbollah Drone Triggers Air Defenses in Northern Israel
A drone flown by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah crossed into northern Israel on Friday, triggering air defences and the scrambling of fighter jets before returning...
Why Are Druze Villagers in Lebanon Doing the UN’s Job?
For the first time since the Second Lebanon War (2006), Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for rockets fired into Israel. On Friday, 19 rockets were fired...
Hezbollah Is an Iranian Strategic Tool
Hezbollah’s rocket and missile arsenal in Lebanon has long been classified as a threat of strategic significance to Israel. Moreover, Hezbollah’s extensive precision guidance project...
Don’t Respond in Lebanon; Respond in Gaza
After many years of calm, the Lebanese border is heating up. The latest barrage of rockets into the Galilee was carried out by Hezbollah in...
Mansour Abbas and the Lebanonization of Israel
The political struggle in Israel has reached a deadlock because the actors are focused not on issues and ideology but on personal, sectorial, factional, and...
Lokman Slim’s Murder Shows That Assassinations Continue to Target Hezbollah Critics in Lebanon
Lebanon is a country marred by a myriad of calamities, from terrorism and assassinations, to the massive explosions that devastated Beirut in August. Political assassinations...
After Being Ravaged by Iran and Hezbollah, Has Lebanon Entered the Abyss?
JNS.org - Since October 2019, the world has witnessed the dismemberment of Lebanon. Lebanon’s confessional system was established in 1943 when a national covenant distributed...
What Can Israel Learn From the Descent of Lebanon?
Lebanon, like Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Israel, was born on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire after its lands were conquered by Britain, which, together with...
The Threat of Hezbollah Missiles at the Beirut Airpot
Media reports from Lebanon allege that the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who headed Tehran's nuclear program, has really shaken up the Lebanese terrorist...
On Hezbollah, It’s Time to Call Nasrallah’s Bluff
JNS.org - From a position of unprecedented weakness and distress, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is back to his old gambling habits. Similar to the summer...
The Abandonment of the South Lebanon Army: A Moral and Strategic Failure
Even after another generation has passed, it will be hard for Israel to undo the strategic damage caused by its May 2000 abandonment of the...
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...
