After opposition rebels took Damascus, Bashar al-Assad’s government collapsed and he escaped to Russia, Syria appears to be up for grabs between powerful regional players. The two main groups inside the country are the Syrian National Army and the jihad group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Meanwhile, Turkey has “for years supported Syrian opposition forces,” particularly the […]
Biden’s Ambassador Says Ceasefire Will Hold If Israel Ignores Terrorist Violations
Fiery but mostly peaceful ceasefire continues. The Biden ceasefire for Lebanon fell apart within 4 days. Officially the ceasefire is holding even as fighting continues between Israel and the Hezbollah Islamic terrorist group. When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire, but still officially a ceasefire? When it’s a fiery but mostly peaceful ceasefire with terrorists. Hezbollah and […]
Lebanon Ceasefire Fiery But Mostly Peaceful
Why Israel and Hezbollah Are Still Firing Amid a Lebanon Cease-Fire – The New York Times Is it a ceasefire if the fire has not ceased? A question from an era where words actually mattered and journalism didn’t consist of copying White House and Brookings Institute press releases. Hezbollah and Israel Trade Fire, Further Testing […]
Biden’s Lebanon Ceasefire Already Fell Apart
The ceasefire lasted approximately 4 days. Lucy and the football. Ceasefires with terrorists always play out the same way. An elaborate series of understandings are reached through an extended process of negotiations. The terrorists start violating them within 24 hours. If Israel is involved, the world immediately blames Israel. Biden’s Lebanon ceasefire lasted approximately 4 […]
France and US Accuse IDF of Violating Ceasefire with Hezbollah
Just a few days into the Israel-Lebanon agreement for a ceasefire requiring Hezbollah to remove all of its forces from south of the Litani River, and not to rearm anywhere in Lebanon, the terror group has been testing Israel’s resolve to make sure Hezbollah hews to the agreement. In every case so far of violations […]
Israeli fighter jets intercept Iranian ‘commercial’ plane over Syria suspected of transporting weapons to Hizballah
“Mahan Air serves as the Islamic Republic’s main cover for transporting weapons.” In less than a week, Hizballah is already violating the ceasefire agreement. The treachery is familiar to Israel, which has seen Hamas violate many ceasefires in the past, after third-party countries including the U.S., Egypt and Qatar brokered those ceasefires. Anything can be […]
Introducing Naim Qassem, New Head of Hezbollah
After Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, was assassinated by Israel, and then his presumed successor Hashem Safieddine suffered the same fate, the intrepid or foolhardy Naim Qassem took over at the end of October as head of the organization that has just suffered the worst defeat in its history. Salem Altekti, a UAE analyst, […]
How the IDF Did It: The 7th Armored Brigade in Southern Lebanon
An interview with Colonel Elad Zuri, the commander of the IDF’s 7th Armored Brigade, provides a glimpse into how the IDF protects the people, and the state, of Israel, from those who would destroy both. In southern Lebanon, the fighters — most of them reservists — of the 7th Armored Brigade, having previously fought in […]
The Fighting Goes On Despite Fake Hezbollah Ceasefire
“This is designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities,” said Biden. Ceasefires against Islamic terrorists are observed mainly in the breach. Islamic terrorists don’t observe actual ceasefires, they use them to reorient and regroup, but continue attacking to celebrate their ‘victory’. (To Muslim terrorists, the other side agreeing to a cessation of fighting or […]
Netanyahu: ‘The length of the ceasefire depends on what happens in Lebanon’
Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses the nation of Israel on the status of Israel’s multi front war and discloses the conditions for the ceasefire with Hizballah (courtesy of the Israel Government Press Office). A transcript follows. Transcript: Citizens of Israel, I promised you victory, and we will achieve victory. We will complete the task of obliterating […]