Iran Gives in to Spy Mania
Is a senior general dead? Hospitalized? Arrested for espionage?
October 11, 2024
Hizballah is something more than a terrorist organization.
Meanwhile, the IDF carried out two separate airstrikes in Beirut last night, one of them hitting the city proper, rather than the Hizballah-dominated suburb of Dahiya. In trying to make sense of the progress of Israel’s campaign in Lebanon, I found very helpful both this in-depth conversation and this essay by Eran Ortal, even if much has happened since the latter was published two weeks ago. Among much else, Ortal puts the war in the context of IDF’s own history:
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Login or SubscribeIs a senior general dead? Hospitalized? Arrested for espionage?
Hizballah is something more than a terrorist organization.
The ruse of “interfaith vigils.”
Of survivors and scapegoats.
From medieval Worms to colonial New York.