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Yoav Limor is a veteran journalist and defense analyst specializing in Israeli advocacy, global Jewish affairs, and Middle Eastern politics. A passionate advocate for Israel, he frequently appears on radio, television, and in print to provide insightful analysis and counter media bias.

If a diplomatic formula can’t be found, developments on the ground will do the talking.
It cannot let rockets or the repeated harassment of border communities with airborne incendiary devices go unpunished.
Alongside the good choice of Maj. Gen. Yoel Strick as head of the ground forces, some of Kochavi’s other appointments are creating discomfort, as the general staff becomes increasingly cliquish.
Ever since “Operation Defensive Shield” in 2002, Hamas has struggled to rehabilitate its military infrastructure in Judea and Samaria.
The killer was located quickly, the result of the forensic findings in the field and the Shin Bet’s technological and operational abilities.
The latest tit-for-tat suggests that Iran is no longer going to remain passive to Israeli action. And it’s safe to assume that the recent escalation is not over yet.
An airstrike in Damascus on Friday, which has already been attributed to Israel, apparently targeted the logistics center Iran operates at Damascus International Airport - a separate and secured loading dock, where Iran does as it pleases.
The latest survey held by the Israel Defense Forces shows a very troubling decline in Israeli youth’s motivation to join combat units, as only 64 percent say they would be willing to do so.
Logic does not always prevail ‎in the Middle East, especially as the region lies under the menacing ‎specter of Iran, which is trying to increase its ‎influence.‎
This is a struggle between the superpowers in which ‎Israel is merely a pawn and one where no punches, ‎even half-truths, are pulled.‎
Israel has presented one proof after another, including concrete intelligence, that Hezbollah is lying, but its cries that the emperor has no clothes are met with total indifference.
Past experience indicates that Israel can stymie a wave of terror with a calculated operational and intelligence-gathering effort. But it will have to tread wisely, and mostly softly.