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Opinion Israel’s Next Big War
Israel’s next big war is almost certainly going to pit it against some combination of Iranian, Syrian and Hezbollah forces along its northern borders with Syria and Lebanon. To be sure, an additional confrontation with Hamas in Gaza (Israel’s opponent in the costly 2014 Gaza War. which led to the death of roughly 2,100 Palestinians…
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Fast Forward Lebanese President Warns Israel After Israeli ‘Threat’ At U.N.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that any Israeli attempt to violate Lebanon’s sovereignty would be met with the “appropriate response”, in a statement released by his office. “Any attempt to hurt Lebanese sovereignty or expose the Lebanese to danger will find the appropriate response,” the statement said. The February 18 statement said Aoun…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Captures Crashed Israeli Drone in Lebanon
The Lebanese group Hezbollah has located an Israeli drone that crashed in Lebanese territory and has taken it to a secure location for inspection, a source in Hezbollah said on Tuesday. The Israeli military said that the drone had came down in Lebanese territory on Monday near the border with Israel, identifying the drone as…
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Fast Forward Lebanese Build Security Wall Around Palestinian Refugee Camp
According to Palestinian twitter sources and The New Arab website, Lebanese authorities have begun to build a security wall around Ain al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the country. #صور| السلطات اللبنانية تبدأ ببناء جدار عازل حول مخيم عين الحلوة، الذي يسكنه 75 ألف لاجئ فلسطيني! pic.twitter.com/SoteL0R76z — فلسطين بوست (@plespost) November 19, 2016…
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Opinion The Middle East: A Daunting Challenge for Hillary Clinton — or Donald Trump
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. The next President has an enormous mess to clean up. Eight years of President Obama’s utopian rationalism has resulted in a sense of global unraveling — both of geostrategic stability and of American interests — and nowhere has it been…
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Fast Forward American Parents of Slain Lone Soldier Mourn — 10 Years Later
JERUSALEM — The parents of Michael Levin, a lone soldier from the United States who was killed in the Second Lebanon War, returned to Israel to mark the 10th anniversary of his death. Mark and Harriet Levin of Philadelphia traveled to Mount Herzl on Thursday to mark their son’s yahrzeit. They were joined by other…
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Fast Forward An Israeli ‘Spy Vulture’ Is Captured, Then Released, by Lebanese
Lebanese citizens captured a vulture they said was carrying Israeli spy equipment. The residents of the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail caught the bird on Tuesday. The Israel Nature and Parks Authority said the griffon vulture was wearing a tracking device, the Jerusalem Post reported. Lebanese media reported the vulture was released after it…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah and Israel Trade Fire Across Lebanon Border
Hezbollah said it set off a bomb targeting Israeli forces at the Lebanese border on Monday in an apparent response to the killing in Syria last month of a prominent commander, triggering Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon. Israel’s army said the blast targeted military vehicles in the Shebaa farms area, and that Israeli forces responded…
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