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Resurrecting Arafat in Beirut?

Hamas, with Hezbollah’s help, is building up a military presence in Lebanon, whose ultimate consequences could be devastating. During the past two years of turmoil in Lebanon, Hezbollah has taken to slowly overturning the accepted postwar norms regarding Lebanon’s policy vis-à-vis the Palestinian refugee camps and the Palestinian issue as …

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Gaza Has Created a Dilemma for Hezbollah

The party has spent almost two decades building up a deterrence capacity, and now may be its prisoner. Since Hamas’ attack against Israeli towns on October 7, and the ensuing Israeli bombardment and military operations in and around Gaza, Hezbollah’s response in southern Lebanon has been mostly restrained. The party …

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The Iron Swords War
Updated to 1 p.m., October 18, 2023

The southern sector: The IDF continued its activity in the Gaza Strip, mainly by conductingairstrikes on terrorist targets of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Terrorist facilitieswere damaged and several senior Hamas terrorist operatives were killed, the most prominentof whom was Ayman Nofal. In the evening the Palestinian Authority reported …

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