Israelis Hope Swift Killing of Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Will “Decisively” Win Next War

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, considered an expert in psychological warfare, has warned that the Israelis don’t have “a correct assessment of where this war will lead if they ignite it.”

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
Israeli soldiers train with paintball guns during a drill at an Army base near Elyakim, Israel. Between myriad concrete buildings with Arabic graffiti that are designed to simulate a typical Lebanese village, dozens of Israeli officers are gearing up for their next battle with Hezbollah. The Arabic is random letters, and the graffiti depicts Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, March 29, 2017.(AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- In any war that Israel plans to wage against Lebanon, Tel Aviv’s key strategic target will be the life of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, according to a senior general in the Israeli military. “If we manage to kill Nasrallah in the next war, I would see that as reaching a decisive victory,” Israeli Defense Forces

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Israel’s Ongoing Bombing of Syria Threatens Dangerous Escalation

Israel has hit Syrian territory over 100 times since the conflict began in 2011.

Darius Shahtahmasebi
By Darius Shahtahmasebi
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The Syrian Army is alleging that Israeli jets struck positions dozens of times within Syria early Tuesday morning in the al-Qutayfa area east of Damascus. According to a statement by Syria’s General Command, the Syrian government’s air defenses not only intercepted all of the missiles Israel fired, but it even managed to counter strike one of

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How Trump’s Declaration Inflames a Middle East Already Ablaze

Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is a turning point in the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. However, the issue is much bigger than Palestine as Donald Trump may have just lit the match that will set off the powder keg of the Arab World.

Eric Draitser
By Eric Draitser
A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot amid teargas and smoke, during clashes with Israeli troops following protests against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel predictably sent shockwaves throughout the Middle East and reverberated around the world. Anger and outrage have been seen on the streets of Palestinian cities, as well as in major cities around the world, where diaspora Palestinians and their

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Strange Twists in the Hariri Mystery

French President Macron has invited Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to Paris, a possible opportunity to determine whether Hariri’s sudden resignation, announced in Saudi Arabia, was coerced.

Dennis J Bernstein
By Dennis J Bernstein
A worker stands in front of a poster of outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri with Arabic words that read, "We are all Saad,", in Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 11, 2017. Lebanon's president has called on Saudi Arabia to clarify the reasons why the country's prime minister has not returned home since his resignation which was announced from the kingdom. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

The strange case of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his surprise resignation, delivered in Saudi Arabia, has developed international overtones with rumors about his possible kidnapping by the Saudis and France extending an invitation for him to come to Paris before possibly returning to Lebanon. I spoke again to Beirut-based political

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Interview with Lebanon PM Hariri Stokes Fears of Captivity in Saudi Arabia

Lebanon’s President Aoun said the interview was a Saudi move to sow “confusion, and we cannot take it as true or made by Hariri’s own free will.”

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By teleSUR
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri gives a live TV interview with a reporter from Future TV, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sunday Nov. 12, 2017, saying he will return to his country “within days”. (Future TV via AP)

By any standard imaginable, Lebanese (ex-) Prime Minister Saad Hariri's Sunday interview on the television station he owns – Future TV – was positively cringe-inducing. Speaking to journalist Paula Yacoubian, Hariri sought to dispel accusations made from the highest levels of the government he once headed – including his own Sunni allies – that he

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Setting the Stage for War: US Air Force Says Missile Targeting Saudi Arabia was Iranian

The US Air Force claims that “the ballistic missile fired by Yemeni rebels that targeted the Saudi capital was from Iran and bore “Iranian markings.”

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
A still image taken from a video by Yemen's pro-Houthi Al Masirah television station on November 5, 2017, shows what it says was the launch by Houthi forces of a ballistic missile aimed at Riyadh's King Khaled Airport, Houthi Military.

One day after Saudi Arabia and Kuwait ordered their citizens to evacuate Lebanon - a move many suggested telegraphed an imminent "military intervention" - the mainstream media has begun building the case for a new mid-east war, one which will involve Iran and Hezbollah (and potentially Russia, not to mention other Shia Muslims) on one hand, and

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