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AFEK, ISRAEL – JULY 31: Members of Magen David Adom ambulance services conduct a drill for handling war situations in the north amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, on July 31, 2024 in Afek, Israel. Staff at Israel’s National Blood and Medical Emergency Service hold a series of drills for handling war situations including mass casualty events, blackout and security scenarios at their HQ in the North. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
Members of the Magen David Adom ambulance service conduct a drill for handling war in the north of Israel on July 31, 2024 in Afek. Amir Levy/Getty Images.
Observation

August 16, 2024

Podcast: Raphael BenLevi, Hanin Ghaddar, and Richard Goldberg on the Looming War in Lebanon

By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

Three experts on the dangers that Hizballah poses in the larger conflict between Iran and Israel.

Podcast: Raphael BenLevi, Hanin Ghaddar, and Richard Goldberg

Right now, over 50,000 Israelis from the northern reaches of the country are not living in their homes. The intensity of rocket fire from Hizballah, arrayed across the Lebanese border, is too dangerous. For that reason and several others relating to Hizballah’s patron, Iran, a war to Israel’s north looms. In April of this year, the Israeli security analyst and IDF reserve intelligence officer Raphael BenLevi published an essay in Mosaic that explains the history of Israel’s northern border security, and what Israel can do now to restore it. To discuss that essay and its arguments, Mosaic’s editor and the podcast’s host Jonathan Silver convened a conversation with the Lebanese writer Hanin Ghaddar and the Iran expert Richard Goldberg.

This week, given the intensification of concern toward Israel’s north, brings the audio of that conversation in podcast form: as good a place as any to start thinking about the dangers that Hizballah poses in the larger conflict between Iran and Israel.

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