by The Jerusalem Connection | Jul 10, 2017 | Iran, Syria and Lebanon
By JPost— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that a ceasefire plan that took effect at noon in southwestern Syria should not allow for a vacuum to be filled by Iran and its proxies in the area near the border with Israel. Netanyahu added that...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Jul 3, 2017 | Hizballah, Syria and Lebanon
By Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira, JCPA— In a speech marking al-Quds [Jerusalem] Day, as established by Ayatollah Khomeini to identify with the Palestinian struggle on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Jun 29, 2017 | Iran, Syria and Lebanon
By JNS— A leading member of Syria’s political opposition said most Syrians view Iran as the real enemy and not Israel, adding that Israel could do more to help the Syrian people. “We want peace with Israel, and today, among the opposition in Syria, most people...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Apr 28, 2017 | Hizballah, Syria and Lebanon
By Israel Today— Israel’s Minister of Intelligence Israel Katz on Thursday strongly hinted that the Jewish state had carried out a large aerial strike on Damascus International Airport earlier in the day. Various regional and international media reported massive...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Apr 19, 2017 | Hamas, Hizballah, Syria and Lebanon
By JPost— Israel should get ready for a possible escalation with Hamas in the summer, according to Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday. “We must be prepared for a confrontation with Hamas this summer,” he said, speaking to Army...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Apr 6, 2017 | Russia, Syria and Lebanon
By Israel Today— The regime of embattled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has reportedly threatened to fire SCUD missiles at Israel if it carries out any more strikes on Syrian soil. Since the start of the Syrian civil war, Israel is believed to have struck select...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Mar 31, 2017 | Hizballah, Iran, Syria and Lebanon
By Matt Brodsky, The Hill— Are Israel and Hezbollah headed for war? That’s the question many analysts are grappling with in the wake of recent escalations involving an Israeli strike inside Syria that targeted a weapons shipment meant for Hezbollah. It prompted...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Mar 24, 2017 | Hizballah, Syria and Lebanon
By Noah Beck, BIN— Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah recently warned Israel that his Iran-backed terror group could attack targets producing mass Israeli casualties, including a huge ammonia storage tank in Haifa, and a nuclear reactor in Dimona. Also last...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 5, 2017 | anti-Semitism, Syria and Lebanon
By Charles Jacobs, Jpost— Major Jewish establishment organizations are strenuously lobbying for the resettlement of Syrian refugees on American soil. It’s explained as a natural extension of Jewish values and history – “we, too, were refugees once. We, too, were...
