BY DEBKAFILE— Tehran has begun capitalizing on its allies’ two perceived victories: Bashar Assad’s success in seizing Idlib from rebel hands and the Palestinian Jihad Islami’s triumphal missile assault from Gaza. The Iranians are now moving forward with plans to match the Palestinian assault on southern Israel with an offensive on the north from Lebanon.…
BY SAMARA GREENBERG, inCONTEXT— Israel’s south found some respite from rocket fire this week after four days of unrelenting attacks from Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip. All is not quiet, however, as Gaza’s militants continue to launch rockets sporadically at Israeli towns, forcing Israel to counterattack, despite the Egyptian-brokered truce that unofficially ended the…
BY MICHAEL FREUND— Yesterday, more than 265,000 children across southern Israel returned to school after enduring several days of Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza. However unappealing the tedium of the classroom may be for many of them, most are nonetheless surely happy that the risk of attack has dissipated, at least for now. Indeed, scenes…