Webinar – War Back On?
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After weeks of near-constant Hezbollah drone and rocket attacks targeting northern Israeli communities, on June 7, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck Hezbollah’s Dahiyeh stronghold outside Beirut. Iran, which had threatened that Israel striking Dahiyeh would trigger a response, then fired several ballistic missiles at Israel’s north. President Donald Trump condemned the attack on Israel, urging Iran to return to the negotiating table.
Not long after, Israel forcefully responded, striking Iranian missile production sites, air defenses, and petrochemical facilities. Iran once again retaliated, accompanied by a Houthi missile launch targeting Israel. President Trump announced that Iran and Israel would be moving towards deescalation, but with Iran vowing further strikes if Israel continues operating against Hezbollah in Lebanon—something Israel has already vowed to pursue—this seems in doubt.
To discuss the recent Middle East attacks, JINSA hosted a webinar featuring JINSA Distinguished Fellow IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror, former National Security Advisor to Israel’s Prime Minister, and JINSA Distinguished Scholar Amb. Eric Edelman, former Ambassador to Turkey.
Blaise Misztal, JINSA’s Vice President for Policy, moderated the discussion.
IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror is a Distinguished Fellow at JINSA. Prior to joining JINSA, MG Amidror was the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel, as well as the head of Israel’s National Security Council. MG (ret.) Amidror also has served as Director of Israel’s Intelligence Analysis Division. |
Amb. Eric Edelman Amb. Eric Edelman is a Distinguished Scholar at JINSA and the co-chair of JINSA’s Iran Policy Project. Amb. Edelman is the former U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and a former member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee. He also served as America’s ambassador to Finland and Turkey. |
Blaise Misztal Blaise Misztal is the Vice President for Policy at JINSA. Misztal previously was a Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and has held roles as the Executive Director of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States and Director of the National Security Program at the Bipartisan Policy Center. |