The Litani River’s Strategic Significance
“The Litani can only be crossed in a few places, so it can be supervised.”
October 15, 2024
The Litani River’s Strategic Significance
“The Litani can only be crossed in a few places, so it can be supervised.”
With the end of the Second Lebanon war in 2006, UN Security Council Resolution 1701 required Hizballah to disarm completely—as did two previous Security Council resolutions—and more specifically required the terrorist group to remove itself south of the Litani River. (Why the first requirement doesn’t render the second unnecessary continues to befuddle me.) Pushing Hizballah north of the Litani is often cited as a possible Israeli goal in the current war. Lahav Harkov explains this waterway’s significance:
October 15, 2024
October 7 Was a Disaster for Palestinians
“We need the blood of the children, women, and elderly to ignite within us the spirit of revolution.”
Witnessing a Hamas Massacre from a Safe Room
And a father’s heroic rescue.
How Judaism Fosters Stronger Neighborhoods and More Resilient Children
With a sense of community, a lost child isn’t a crisis.
Christopher Columbus Might Have Had Jewish Ancestry. Or Maybe Not
For anti-Semites, he could now become the new avatar of Jewish settler colonialism.