Israel Is Banking on U.S. Support for a Wider War Against the Axis of Resistance

As Israel’s battle of annihilation in Gaza enters its fourth month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems intent on pulling the U.S. deeper right into a wider regional battle. In latest weeks, Israel has intensified its army operations inside Lebanon, killing a number of mid-level Hezbollah commanders in what look like focused assassination strikes. Israel can also be extensively believed to have been accountable for the January 2 drone strike in a Beirut suburb that killed a senior Hamas official, Saleh al-Arouri. Hezbollah, a well-armed and arranged Lebanese resistance motion with shut hyperlinks to Iran and a central member within the axis of resistance, has repeatedly fired rockets into northern Israel and has performed drone strikes of its personal, together with towards a strategic Israeli army facility.

This week’s visitors on Intercepted are Amal Saad, a lecturer in politics at Cardiff College and a scholar of Hezbollah, and Karim Makdisi, an affiliate professor of worldwide politics on the American College of Beirut. They be part of Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain for an in-depth dialogue on whether or not Israel’s battle on Gaza will spark what many within the area imagine is an inevitable “nice battle” towards Israel. Additionally they focus on the function of Iran and its relationships with Hamas and Hezbollah, in addition to how Joe Biden compares to previous presidents on the wars in Palestine and Lebanon.

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