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November 10, 2026

Two Views from Israel’s Tense Northern Border, after Three Years of War

The Israeli Druze, and the IDF’s tactics.

Yesterday, there were explosions in two towns within the Israeli buffer zone in southern Lebanon. It is unclear if these were the result of IDF strikes or controlled demolitions of tunnels or ammunition dumps. Either way, the current quiet on Israel’s northern border is far from absolute, and Hizballah continues to pose a very real danger. A similarly uneasy situation exists along the northeastern border with Syria. Visiting the area, Aaron MacLean speaks with the former Israeli diplomat Tamir Murad about the Druze community’s experience of the past few years of war, and then with two unnamed Israeli officers about the security situation there. (Video, 64 minutes. Audio available at the link below.)

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