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Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport, and the Dimona nuclear-power plant.
I dismissed his claim as a wild boast last week, but Israeli army commander Major General Gabi Ashkenazi confirmed it this week. So while we've all been worried about Iran's nuclear-weapons program, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been quietly arming his chief terrorist proxy with more advanced conventional weapons.
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This week the Israeli government announced it will resume negotiations with Syria without preconditions, and the Syrians responded in kind.
Peace talks, if they ever actually start, aren't going anywhere, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows it. He's going through the motions so Western diplomats don't throw him and his country out in the cold. Syria's Bashar Assad knows it too. He's going through the motions so that he and his country can come in from the cold.
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WEB ONLY. If the terror group is charged in the assassination of the former prime minister, Lebanon might yet see a civil war.
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Olivia Sterns confounds Arab hospitality with pro-Western sentiment in Syria. Basing foreign policy on this illusory perception is naive.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE. While the world focuses on Israel's conflict with Hamas in Gaza, an illusory calm reigns over a divided Lebanon.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE. Michael J. Totten returns from Israel with a sobering assessment: Palestinian rejection of Israel's right to exist renders the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as intractable as ever.
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What will happen when we leave Iraq? Triumphs and setbacks. But the country's days as a lethal threat are over.
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Bashar Assad may have given the recent American raid in Syria the green light.
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Israel is floating the idea of a treaty with Lebanon. It's doomed to fail.
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Barack Obama wants talks. lran's leaders have other ideas.
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While the role of U.S. troops in Iraq is changing, their presence is as important as ever.
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Lebanon's ragtag anti-Syrian coalition, the "March 14" Movement, harbors a great deal of extreme moral ugliness.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE. Independent reporter Michael Yon says yes. But it's more complicated than that: there is no easy victory.
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How can we stop Iraq from becoming another Gaza? Fight off Iran's proxies and don't withdraw too soon.
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Hezbollah won't be able to subjugate and administer Lebanon.
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And he proves there's more to contemporary Islam than terrorism and identity politics.
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The mystery surrounding Bilal Hussein (third from left) should force us all to think about the nature of news coverage in Iraq.
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Keep the "offensive" films coming.
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The trials and tribulations of the world's newest independent state.
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