This past weekend, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah again attempted to attack Israel with scores of rockets and missiles aimed at Tel Aviv and central Israel. Since Oct. 8, there have been more than 7,500 rocket, drone and missile attacks against Israel from Hezbollah. The Israel Defense Forces responded by launching counter-strikes, intercepting the incoming missiles and preemptively striking out against the Hezbollah missile-launchers.
Hezbollah, positioned just north of Israel’s border in Southern Lebanon, is just one of the many tentacles of the Iranian octopus. Iran has had a 14-century feud against the oil-producing Sunni state of Saudi Arabia. This has only increased the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution. As Saudi Arabia has been developing stronger ties, albeit under the table, with Israel, why has the Islamic Republic of Iran been singularly focused on eroding the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia? What is their strategy for taking over the Saud oil refineries? What is the Islamic Republic’s vision of its role in the region and the world? How much of a presence does Hezbollah have in Latin America, and how does that undermine U.S. national security interests?
Here to answer these questions and more is Ambassador Yoram Ettinger.
About the Speaker: Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger is an insider on U.S.-Israel relations, Mideast politics and overseas investments in Israel’s high-tech. He is a member of the American-Israel Demographic Research Group (AIDRG), which has documented dramatic flaws behind demographic fatalism on one hand and a Jewish demographic momentum on the other hand.
He is a consultant to members of Israel’s Cabinet and Knesset, and regularly briefs U.S. legislators and their staff on Israel’s contribution to vital national interests, the root causes of international terrorism and other issues of bilateral concern.
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger’s columns have been published in Israel and the United States, and he has been interviewed on both nations’s TV and radio stations.
