Communications

Sima Shine is a former Mossad analyst and current director of the Iran and the Shi'ite Axis research program at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. She told 60 Minutes that Hezbollah has been "defeated to a certain degree" and that the assassination of its head Nasrallah, and other leadership figures, was a devastating blow. "They are a completely...

“Gulf rulers have an interest in political stability in Arab countries and energy infrastructure is their opportunity to support it,” said Ilan Zalayat, Gulf researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and Tel Aviv University's Moshe Dayan Centre. Gulf nations have become increasingly proactive in regional affairs, aiming to foster stability and mediate...

“Gulf rulers have an interest in political stability in Arab countries and energy infrastructure is their opportunity to support it,” said Ilan Zalayat, Gulf researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and the Tel Aviv University's Moshe Dayan Centre. ...The agreement could reduce Iraq's reliance on power and gas imported from Iran, which supplies about a third...

Raz Zimmt, a leading expert on Iran at the Institute of National Security Studies (INSS), is blunt from the beginning and confesses that neither the Lebanese Government nor the Army will be able to contain the Lebanese Shia militia if it decides to become strong again in the south of the cedar country and, in that case, recalls that Israel will act on its own.

Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies reports that Hezbollah has lost a total of 2,450 fighters out of an estimated 40,000 to 50,000. Hezbollah undoubtedly has tens of thousands of missiles and fighters left with which to rebuild its military capacity — and it is likely to return to southern Lebanon — next to the Israeli border — no matter what the cease-fire...

Professor Kobi Michael, a military analyst at Israeli think-tanks the Institute for National Security Studies and the Misgav Institute, predicts the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) will continue operations in Lebanon indefinitely. “The IDF will continue ‘mowing the grass’ after the 60 days and wherever the inspecting forces will not do their job,” he said, using a term originally...

However, Ofer Shelah, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) think tank, said this delinking might ultimately make it harder to end the bloodshed in Gaza. "There'll be no real pressure now on Israel over Gaza," Shelah told Reuters.