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Smoke rises from southern Lebanon following Israeli airstrikes, April 11, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Why the ceasefire in Lebanon won’t stop Israel’s expansionist ambitions

Israel’s push for buffer zones and ‘natural borders’ suggests the emerging ceasefire is unlikely to halt its ongoing ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon.

By Dimi Reider April 16, 2026

Israeli soldiers wave a tattered Hezbollah flag as they return from fighting around the southern Lebanese village of Marun Al-Ras, July 27, 2006. (Pierre Terdjman/Flash90)

Hezbollah couldn’t ask for a better enemy than Israel

Through a war of words, Israel and Hezbollah have created a symbiotic relationship that plays into each other's ambitions for political hegemony.

By Elia Ayoub January 18, 2022

Soldiers from the IDF's Egoz Reconnaissance Unit, which specializes in guerrilla warfare in southern Lebanon. (Illustrative photo: IDF Spokesperson/Flickr)

Another unnecessary war

The following is a prediction best left unfulfilled. Faced with the drums of war, one must remain resolute, even if there is no certainty that war will break out. Too much is at stake. And if war does not break out now, it will at a later time. It will materialize one way or another. By…

By +972 Magazine February 7, 2018

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Bodies lie on the floor of Kuwaiti Hospital after Israeli attacks in Rafah, Gaza Strip, August 3, 2014. Since Al Najjar Hospital was closed, Kuwaiti, a nearby private hospital, opened its doors for emergency cases. So far, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,676 Palestinians, including 378 children (photo: Activestills)

Gaza war: It’s about keeping the Palestinians under control

Israel has been waging a single war since the mid-70s. Its goal is to avoid sharing power or assets with the other people living on this land. The Gaza war wasn’t about creating a new order, but about maintaining the old one. At the time of this writing, Operation Protective Edge has come to an…

By Noam Sheizaf August 7, 2014

Soldiers from the IDF's Egoz Reconnaissance Unit, which specializes in guerrilla warfare in southern Lebanon. (Illustrative photo: IDF Spokesperson/Flickr)

Israel’s ‘war between wars’ backfires

A self-fulfilling prophecy is playing out in the north. After nearly eight years of quiet, Israel’s northern border got stormy over the past week. The culmination of the tit-for-tat violence was a bomb placed on the border with Syria that wounded four Israeli soldiers, one seriously, which was followed by an Israeli air strike on…

By Larry Derfner March 21, 2014

IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz at a memorial service [illustrative], (Photo: IDF Spokesperson/Ori Shifrin)

Israel’s Memorial Day: A day of mourning and militarism

Today is not only a day of sadness for fallen Israeli soldiers, it’s also one of public declarations that all those bloody conflicts were righteous and necessary – just like the current ones and those that lie ahead. Maybe in another country, a country that goes to war once in a generation or longer, Memorial…

By Larry Derfner April 15, 2013

Racist reporting gets free hand in Israeli press

Examples of racism are abundant in the Israeli press. Both individual journalists and the media outlets that publish them must be taken to task for stereotyping Palestinians, and in some cases, inciting violence against them. By I’lam: Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel It is not altogether true that free expression is under threat…

By +972 Magazine December 23, 2012

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Minister Ariel Sharon (photo: Saar Yaacov, Government Press Office / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

‘Nothing will happen. Maybe some more terrorists will be killed’

Declassified documents from meetings held before and during the Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982 reveal Ariel Sharon’s contempt for Palestinian lives. Published last week by the New York Times, the documents demonstrate the arrogance of Sharon and a young Benjamin Netanyahu in their dealing with American diplomats and officials, who expressed justified concerns over…

By Noam Sheizaf September 21, 2012

Formen head of Mossad, Maj. Gen (res.) Meir Dagan (photo: Cpl. Ori Shifrin, IDF Spokesperson, CC BY-NC 2.0)

What covert ops did former Mossad chief lead in Lebanon prior to 1982 invasion?

A well known method which Israeli reporters use to bypass the military censorship is to take the story to the foreign press, (at the price of losing exclusivity, but sometimes journalists just want to get the stuff out). In the New Yorker profile of former Mossad head Meir Dagan, this paragraph appears: Far from everything is known about…

By Noam Sheizaf September 5, 2012