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Iran Update, October 7, 2024

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) deployed a third division—the 91st Division—to southern Lebanon on October 7 for “focused and delimited” ground operations against Lebanese Hezbollah.[i] The 91st Division joins the 36th and 98th divisions in southern Lebanon shortly after Israel announced that it would expand ground operations against Hezbollah.[ii] The …

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What Israel Has Lost

And How It Can Regain Its Strategic Edge The massacre of October 7, 2023, was one of the most horrific atrocities perpetrated since World War II. On that day, Hamas-led militants kidnapped Israeli children, raped Israeli women, beheaded Israeli men, and burned alive entire Israeli families in their homes. But …

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Israel’s Paradox of Defeat

How the Country’s Military Success Is Producing Political Failure Last October 7, Hamas surprised Israel’s famed military and intelligence agencies. Both had known, for years, about the Palestinian armed group’s preparations to invade Israel and kill and kidnap its soldiers and citizens. But they failed to believe that it would …

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What Israel Has Lost

And How It Can Regain Its Strategic Edge The massacre of October 7, 2023, was one of the most horrific atrocities perpetrated since World War II. On that day, Hamas-led militants kidnapped Israeli children, raped Israeli women, beheaded Israeli men, and burned alive entire Israeli families in their homes. But …

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Israel’s Full-Scale War on Lebanon is Already Here

As Israel escalates attacks across Lebanon, experts say the full-scale war is no longer just a possibility. On Friday night, the bombs struck one after another. Thunderous booms and shockwaves erupted throughout the Lebanese capital of Beirut. Large pillars of smoke billowed from the southern suburbs, visible from well outside …

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