17 Aug 2024, 7:07pm Iran's ring of fire surrounds Israel Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) Webinar (August 15, 2024 / JNS) While the Biden administration and international community mistakenly view Israel’s current war with Hamas as one limited and simply about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, historian Gadi Taub correctly recognizes it as just the prologue to a much larger conflict between Israel and Iran with Israel on the frontlines of the battle against Western civilization. Israel’s targeted assassinations of numerous senior-level officials in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah and Hamas, its military victories in Gaza and its successful attack on the Houthis in Yemen signal that its strengths can, in fact, defeat Iran’s proxies in the region. But Iran has built a frightening ring of fire around the tiny nation and it is unclear whether a strong U.S.- Israel relationship will continue to help it prevail as Biden hands the reins of the Democrat Party to a possible Harris-Walz administration. When will war with Hezbollah break out, will Iran attack, how stable is the West Bank, and will Hamas survive under the new leadership of Yahya Sinwar? This conversation with Gadi Taub is as insightful as his realistic and brilliant knowledge of the conflict and the region is.
