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Shimon Shapira

Brig. Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira is a senior research associate at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He served as Military Secretary to the Prime Minister and as Israel Foreign Ministry chief of staff. He edited the Jerusalem Center eBook Iran: From Regional Challenge to Global Threat.

Recent threats from the Lebanese terror group show that it believes Israel’s desire to avoid a military clash is a sign of weakness.
In an address marking the 12th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, Secretary General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah described how he perceived the confrontation with Israel.
Hezbollah’s fiction writers claimed “the Iron Dome in the Golan failed to confront the missiles [sic rockets].”
The deterioration may spill over beyond Syria, and lead to Iranian and Hezbollah attempts to strike at Israeli and Jewish targets outside the region.