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Iran’s Race for Regional Supremacy: Strategic Implications for the Middle East

September 21, 2011

Iran has accelerated its quest for regional supremacy through its mobilization of both Shiite and Sunni terror surrogates, including Hizbullah in Lebanon, Shiite militias in Iraq and in the Gulf, the Taliban in Afghanistan, and Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades in the Palestinian territories. This pivotal Iranian role has unfortunately not been fully appreciated, and even downplayed in certain quarters.

The Second Lebanon War: From Territory to Ideology

August 30, 2008 | Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon

The 2006 Israel-Hizbullah war, in which the northern third of Israel came under 34 days of fire by 4,2281 Iranian and Syrian rockets, should be a clear illustration that the hostility and aggression that Israel faces in the Middle East does not arise from Israel’s “occupation” of the West Bank, or from Palestinian statelessness.

Maintaining a Thriving Economy in the Shadow of Terror

June 18, 2007 | Prof. Zvi Eckstein

Despite terror and war, the Israeli economy has one of the highest per capita growth rates in the Western world among all the states established between 1948 and 1974. If there had been no terror in 2000-2005, the economy would have continued to grow and would have almost reached where it is today as early as 2003.