Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made no secret of his desire to revise Turkey's century-old borders. He has made claims to portions of Bulgaria, Greece, and Cyprus, and Turkish troops occupy portions of Cyprus...
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The latest release into the American interior of an FBI terrorist suspect who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border—a twice-freed Afghan national man free to roam America for 11 months until his capture—demands that the...
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Covert investigations conducted by the Turkish foreign ministry's intelligence arm have targeted a nonpartisan American policy organization that has former high-ranking US government officials on its board of directors...
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It has now been almost ten years since Houthi rebels, co-opted, armed and equipped by Iran, marched into Sana'a and seized the Yemeni government buildings. Rather than collapse under the weight of governance and the fact that as...
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Iran's unprecedented firing of hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel represents a serious change in Iranian policy, which heretofore has been pursued through various regional proxies. It also illustrates the consequences of...
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When President Joe Biden visited Tel Aviv in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, he spoke with moral clarity. "Hamas committed atrocities that recall the worst ravages of ISIS [the Islamic State], unleashing...
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A short survey of events from some of the fronts in the multi-arena, multi-level conflict now underway in the Middle East: Earlier this week, Israeli fighter jets carried out missions against two sites in southern Lebanon – Mis...
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Spotlight: The Looming Israel-Hezbollah War
On March 29, hours after Israel launched air strikes on a Hezbollah compound near Aleppo, Syria, killing seven of the Iran-backed Lebanese Shiite organization’s fighters and dozens of Syrian military personnel, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared that the Jewish state was "turning from defending to pursuing Hezbollah … wherever the organization operates, in Beirut, Damascus and in more distant places."
The one lesson nearly all Israelis have learned from the nearly 6-month-long war launched by Hamas is that a genocidal adversary cannot be allowed to build a massive paramilitary apparatus along their border. In virtually every respect, Hezbollah is a more formidable enemy than Hamas. Its fighters are more numerous, better armed, better trained, and more battle-hardened by years of operations in the Syrian civil war. It has a far larger and deadlier rocket and missile arsenal. It has a proven ability to launch mass casualty terror attacks worldwide and controls a vast transnational crime syndicate anchored in Lebanese Diaspora communities across the globe.
For more on Israel's looming showdown with Hezbollah, see the selections at right from MEF staff, writing fellows, and guest contributors.
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