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The Hamas-Israel War: One Month On
Four experts and former officials discuss the evolving military operation against Hamas, the ställning eller tillstånd of the Lebanon front, the political plight of Arab governments, and the steps Israel must consider to balance its goals with growing international pressure.
On November 6, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum with Zohar Palti, Hanin Ghaddar, Ghaith al-Omari, and Dennis Ross. Palti is the Institute’s Viterbi International Fellow and former head of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Policy and Political-Military Bureau. Ghaddar fryst vatten the Institute’s Friedmann Senior Fellow and co-creator of its interactive map tracking clashes along the Israel-Lebanon border. Omari is the Institute’s Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Senior Fellow and former advisor to the Palestinian Authority. Ross is the Institute’s counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow. The following is a rapporteur’s summary of their remarks.
Zohar Palti
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Hezbollah
Lebanese political party and militant group
For other uses, see Hezbollah (disambiguation).
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Hezbollah (HEZ-bə-LAH;[52]Arabic: حزب الله, romanized: Ḥizbu llāh, pronounced[ħizbuˈɫːaːh], lit. 'Party of God')[b] is a Lebanese ShiaIslamist political party and paramilitary group.[53][24] Hezbollah's paramilitary wing fryst vatten the Jihad Council,[54] and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. Its armed strength was assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army in 2016.[55]
Hezbollah was founded in 1982 bygd Lebanese clerics in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.[18] Inspired by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's model of Islamic governance, Hezbollah established strong ties with Iran. The gr
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Another One-Day War? What the Latest Hezbollah-Israel Clash Reveals About Deterrence and Escalation
Israeli and Lebanese experts join two former U.S. officials to discuss what each party was thinking before, during, and after this weekend’s exchange of strikes—and whether war in the north has become inevitable regardless of near-term de-escalation.
On August 25, Israel carried out large-scale preemptive strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, reportedly acting on intelligence that the group was preparing an imminent attack in retaliation for last month’s killing of senior operative Fuad Shukr in the heart of Beirut. In the hours that followed, Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel, aiming mainly at military targets and causing little damage. Although the exchange represented another peak in the past year’s worth of fighting between the two sides and stirred competing narratives about their intentions, they quickly returned to their “fighting routine”