Schlagwort: Hisbollah

„Would a Palestinian state serve the cause of Mideast peace? This used to be conventional wisdom, on the theory that a Palestinian state would lead to peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, easing the military burdens on the former and encouraging the latter to address their internal discontents. Today…

„However, [Rafsanjanis] death and the hagiography accompanying it does provide a ‚teachable moment.‘ Why is it that U.S. officials and analysts feel the need to find significance to factionalism among adversaries? In the Iranian context, this errs because it assumes that the spectrum from reform to hardline among Islamic Republic…

„Hezbollah remains the most serious conventional threat Israel is facing, more than Hamas or Iran, a report released Monday by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) determined. According to the report, submitted to President Rivlin by INSS head Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, Hezbollah has rockets that can reach…

„Characteristically, an autocrat inflates his place in history. But, in this case, it’s worth acknowledging that Assad has a point: the significance of Aleppo’s collapse is far greater than its physical territory, its ancient history, and its former splendor. For more than four years, Western governments and the United Nations…

„Hezbollah is fighting in Syria with American weapon systems supplied by the United States to the Lebanese Army, a senior Israel Defense Forces officer speaking under conditions of anonymity said Wednesday. According to the officer, Israel has supplied the U.S. administration with evidence, including photographs, of American-supplied armored personnel carriers…

„How do you know if someone’s an antisemite? They don’t all perform stiff-arm salutes for the camera and offer interesting 140-character thoughts about race theory on Twitter. Although those are helpful clues, as the American alt-right, Hezbollah and Iran’s leadership prove. But antisemitism isn’t a prejudice restricted to the likes…

Vor wenigen Tagen haben wir auf eine „ungewöhnliche Stellungnahme“ von Israels Verteidigungsminister Avigdor Lieberman aufmerksam gemacht und darauf hingewiesen, dass die jüngsten israelische Militäraktionen in Syrien möglicherweise die Weitergabe von Massenvernichtungswaffen an die Hisbollah verhindern sollte. Diese These wurde jetzt von einer kuwaitischen Zeitung untermauert, wie Israel Hayom berichtet: „Israel…

Von Florian Markl In Laufe des Krieges in Syrien hat Israel mehrfach Ziele in seinem Nachbarland angegriffen. So auch in den vergangenen Tagen, in denen sich zwei Attacken ereignet haben sollen. Verteidigungsminister Avigdor Lieberman erklärte dazu: „Israel has no interest in intervening in the civil war in Syria. Our policies…

Sehr geehrter Herr Schocher, mit Erstaunen habe ich in Ihrem Kurier-Artikel über Aleppo gelesen, dass die „syrische Armee in Allianz mit russischen Truppen, iranischen Kommandos und libyschen Milizionären“ auf dem Schlachtfeld Tatsachen schaffe. Bei aller Unübersichtlichkeit, die den Krieg in Syrien kennzeichnet, eines kann man mit Sicherheit sagen: Es gibt…

„Almost every Shi’ite village or neighborhood in southern Lebanon is being used by Hezbollah fighters, according to Brig.-Gen. Ram Yavne, head of the IDF Strategic Division. One civilian village pointed out by Yavne called Chakra, which has 4,000 Shi’ite inhabitants, ‚reflects the situation of every Shi’ite neighborhood, town, or village…

„Russia and Hezbollah have begun ‚official‘ military coordination in Syria at the behest of Moscow, according to a report published Thursday on a pro-Hezbollah news site. The pro-Hezbollah Lebanese website al-Akhbar reported that Hezbollah officials met with ‚senior‘ Russian officers in the embattled city of Aleppo last week in the…

„On November 13, 2016, Hizbullah marked its annual Martyr Day by holding its first military parade in a Syrian town. The parade was held in Al-Qusayr, which Hizbullah took over in 2013 following a long and bloody battle with rebel forces, and which since then has become the main symbol…

„For months prior to the offensive, Iran, and its Iraqi proxies pressured the Iraqi government to accept the militias’ role in the Mosul offensive, a move that could give them a share of victory and provide them with a pretext to justify their activities long after the defeat of ISIS.…

Nach über zwei Jahren hat der Libanon einen neuen Präsidenten. Und das ist ausgerechnet Michel Aoun. Mehr alter Naher Osten geht kaum. Und öfter hat auch kaum ein libanesischer Politiker je die Seiten gewechselt. Einziger namhafter Konkurrent in diesem Spiel ist wohl Walid Jumblatt. Inzwischen gehört Aoun jedenfalls zu den…

„Russia’s beefed-up deployment also affects Israel, which, according to foreign media reports, has launched numerous air strikes on arms convoys from Syria to Hezbollah in recent years. Based on the Washington Post’s map, an Israeli plane couldn’t take off from Tel Nof airbase without being tagged by Russian radar. Ever…