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Eyal Zisser

Eyal Zisser is a lecturer in the Middle East History Department at Tel Aviv University.

Israel needs to change the Hezbollah leader’s calculations. He won’t want and can’t afford to pay with his life or a full-blown war.
Tracing coronavirus infection routes demonstrates that the 1949 armistice lines, which many in Israel and abroad view as some sort of official boundary, don’t exist in actuality.
The “Axis of Resistance” against Israel maintained by Syria, Iran and Hezbollah is foisting calamity upon their own people.
Regardless of what Arab states say, it would be a mistake to assume that any single Israeli initiative will fundamentally alter the regional reality.
The Palestinian leader has been singing the same hollow tune for nearly two decades. Now it is falling on deaf ears.
Look around any hospital or university in Israel, and you’ll see the country’s restless Arab youth, striving to advance themselves and integrate into Israeli society. The key to change is in their hands.
The Europeans are attacking Israel over the sovereignty issue, but their real target is US President Donald Trump, whom many Europeans view as an adversary.
With Hezbollah on the back foot due to the coronavirus and Lebanon’s economic crisis, the last thing Israel should do now is let up its pressure on the Shi’ite terrorist organization.
Growing dissent indicates that once the pandemic is over and the economic fallout becomes clearer, a tidal wave of unrest could flow.
The coronavirus has succeeded in Gaza where a decade of military pressure failed. Israel, however, must be careful not to get dragged back into a position of responsibility for the welfare of Gaza residents.
Hamas is capable of raining rockets on Sderot, but is unable to care for its civilian population. Israel is already supplying coronavirus testing kits to the Hamas government and preparing to provide medical aid.
It appears that tiny Israel has something to teach Europe about striking the right balance between personal liberties and the public good.