Jonathan Spyer

BEHIND THE LINES: If and when the current strategy fails, the Kurds may need to be reached again. Hopefully, by the time this occurs, they will be able to take advantage of the moment in full.

BEHIND THE LINES: Anti-Israel statements of the emergent alliance between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan are not just rhetoric. Rather, they form an integral element in its strategy.

BEHIND THE LINES: Israel and Serbia’s current common interests and historic friendship combine to form an emerging partnership worthy of greater note.

Reporter's Notebook: With the IDF dug in at Beaufort, its next challenge is preventing Hezbollah from returning to the guerrilla tactics that once drove Israel from southern Lebanon.

BEHIND THE LINES: Turkey, Qatar, and Pakistan are emerging as a powerful bloc - an alliance openly opposed to Israel.

BEHIND THE LINES: Syria remains deeply divided along ethnic lines, with a series of ongoing “cold wars” underway between minority communities and the new Sunni Arab authorities.

BEHIND THE LINES: The decision by Zaidan’s allies to integrate their armed elements into state security forces represents an effort by a pro-Iranian element to consolidate its power.

BEHIND THE LINES: The emerging evidence suggests that this organization is a front for elements operating on behalf of the Iranian regime.

BEHIND THE LINES: The “Lebanese mud,” as the Hebrew phrase has it, never seems quite to be finally scraped off the IDF’s boots.

The Post visited southern Lebanon with the IDF to see the newly established position in Ait a Shaab, a former Hezbollah stronghold.