What the Biden Presidency Might Mean for Israel
The achievements of the past few years were built to last.
November 9, 2020
In 2006, Iran Started the Lebanon War to Distract from Its Nuclear Program
Hizballah did its masters' bidding.
On July 12, 2006 Hizballah operatives crossed into Israel and kidnapped and then killed two soldiers, sparking a 34-day war. Contrary to the claims of the Lebanon-backed terrorist group’s own leaders, Raphael Ofek and Pesach Malovany painstakingly lay out the case that Hizballah deliberately sought to provoke a serious conflict with the Jewish state at the behest of its masters in Tehran. The Islamic Republic, which sent soldiers and advisers from its Revolutionary Guard Corps to supervise and assist in the fighting, was at the time primarily concerned by growing scrutiny from Europe and the U.S. regarding its nuclear program:
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Yitzhak Rabin’s True Legacy: A Defender of Israel’s Security
Saving his reputation from the right and the left.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, of Blessed Memory
“When a sage dies, all are his kin.”
In 2006, Iran Started the Lebanon War to Distract from Its Nuclear Program
Hizballah did its masters' bidding.
The History of Jews in the Persian Gulf
From Ottoman officials to Bahraini ambassadors.