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August 30, 2017

How the Second Lebanon War Set the Stage for the War in Syria and the Rise of Iran

The sixth Arab-Israeli war, or the first Iran-Israel war?

Israel’s war with Hizballah in 2006 seems unrelated to today’s internecine strife in Syria. But in the view of Eyal Zisser, the two conflicts are connected by a thread that runs through the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, the Iraq war, Syria’s own withdrawal from Lebanon, and Iran’s expanding influence in the Middle East:

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