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To Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: First Confront Iran 

Sander Gerbert and Robert Wexler The Hill, Jan. 4, 2024   “This doesn’t mean the two-state solution is impossible, but it does demand a realistic assessment of its current viability given Iranian opposition to a moderate Palestinian leadership that could actually make peace. The first step towards a revamped PA must be the elimination of […]

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For the first time since the end of the 2006 conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon, several explosive devices camouflaged as rocks planted on the international border with Lebanon in the area of Avivim, were uncovered by IDF forces.- Wikipedia

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Daily Briefing: NORTHERN FRONT OPENS UP?

ISRAEL TARGETS RADWAN FORCES WATCH:  The Targeted Killing of Saleh Al-Arouri in Lebanon: Implications for the Israel-Hamas War:  Col (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jan. 4, 2024 Israeli Strike Kills a Hezbollah Commander In Lebanon, Sources In Lebanon Say:  Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily, Yahoo News, Jan. 8, 2024 — […]

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Hezbollah weaponry found during IDF operations in a village in the Eastern Sector of southern Lebanon. (Source:Wikipedia)

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Report Details Hamas’s Secret Buildup to Oct 7, Terror Group’s Isolation in Its Wake

TOI staff Times of Israel, Dec. 29, 2024 “According to the Hezbollah source, Arouri “oversold” Hamas’s leaders on the support they could expect from Hezbollah and others.” Hamas alerted the leader of fellow terror group Hezbollah just minutes before launching its October 7 assault, according to a report this week, detailing rifts between various Iran-backed groups […]

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Expert: Hezbollah Has Built a Vast Tunnel Network Far More Sophisticated Than Hamas’s

Tal Schneider Times of Israel, Jan. 2, 2024 “Eventually, Hezbollah got everything it needed from the Koreans. By 2014, they’d had 25 years of interaction, in the course of which Hezbollah received knowledge and technology to the point where it was able to dig and build the tunnels by itself.” Two weeks ago, the IDF […]

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Hezbollah fighters at a ceremony.(Wikipedia)

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What Are Hezbollah’s Calculations, 90 Days into War on Israel? – Analysis

Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Jan. 4, 2024 “… a terrorist army like Hezbollah can only push so far. It has a lot to lose in Lebanon and it has become so large that it also has a lot of assets that are not easy to simply fold up and move.”   For the past […]

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The Invasion-Mass Murder Strategy of Hamas and Hizbullah

Dan Diker Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jan. 8, 2024 “The Iranian regime’s proxy strategy, utilizing Hizbullah, Hamas, and the Houthis, intends to put Israel in a no-win position of all-out multi-front war while benefitting from the West’s mistaken conviction that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict drives the Middle East’s regional instability.” The Iran-backed Hamas war with […]

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IDF Soldiers During Operation Protective Edge | IDF soldiers… | Flickr

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Daily Briefing: ISRAEL TRANSITIONS INTO LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT MODE

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ISIS- REDUX Israel vs. Hamas – What’s New?:  Israel vs. Hamas – What’s New?:  Lt.-Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Dr. Dan Diker, Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jan. 3, 2023  Why is the Gaza War Different?:  Jonathan Spyer, JNS, Dec. 31, 2023 — The current Israeli operation in Gaza has led […]

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Artillery Corps in Gaza IDF artillery forces fire into the Gaza Strip as part of Operation Protective Edge. (Source: Flickr)

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Israel-Hamas War: The Dangers of an IDF Strategy Shift in Gaza

Seth J. Frantzman FDD, Dec. 27, 2023 “This is why when many people hear the words “Shejaia,” or “Jabalya,” or “Beit Hanun,” it brings back memories of campaigns long ago, challenges met, adversaries bested, but with no real victory.”   Israel has already churned through several phases: the initial response to the Hamas attack, the […]

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2023 Hamas attack on Israel - Wikipedia

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A New Existential War – Part II: Warfare Has Changed, and the Israeli Security Concept Must Change with It

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen BESA, Jan. 3, 2024 “… the audacity of the IDF leadership and the war cabinet to deploy the IDF for an attack deep into Gaza’s densely populated, confined, and fortified urban terrain, both above and below ground – with an intensity not seen before, not even in the warfare of the […]

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A Real Victory Means a New Reality on the Gaza-Egypt Border and Ending Hamas Grip on Resources

Meir Ben Shabbat Israel Hayom, Jan. 5, 2023 “Even if we assume that understandings could be struck between Israel and Egypt on this issue, a response will be required to two operational challenges: How to operate militarily in the crowded area that has absorbed thousands of people evacuated from the northern Gaza Strip; and the […]

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Reservists of the Israel Defense Forces in 2011- Wikipedia

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The Reserve Forces in the Gaza War:  Challenges for the Continuation of the Fighting

Ariel Heimann INSS Special Publication, Jan. 7, 2024 “Lower intensity combat in Gaza still requires significant forces to defend and control the areas captured by the IDF (especially in northern Gaza); the new defense line, including a security perimeter, will be double the size of the previous one and manned with much greater density; and meanwhile, […]

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Daily Briefing: THE HARVARD DEBACLE: IS DEI ON LIFE SUPPORT?

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SHABBAT READING Speech at ‘Closer to Israel’ at Trafalgar Square:  Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy,  June 2, 2013 –– In July 1938 leaders of 32 nations gathered in the French spa town of Evian knowing that something terrible was going to happen to the Jews, Knowing that unless they did something a tragedy would […]

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