Thoughts from Presentations at Yale and Columbia
Photo: Dr. Mandel’s presentation at Columbia University in November 2022. Message from Dr. Mandel: I was privileged to be invited to Columbia University and Yale in New Haven, to speak…
Watch Last Week’s Webinar with Lt. Col (res.) Sarit Zehavi!
For those of you that asked for a link to the webinar on Iran, the status of the JCPOA, Israeli strategic options, the history of the Iran agreement, Hezbollah and…
America’s next crisis may be Lebanon — not Ukraine or Taiwan
Published in The Hill. Photo: Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun is pictured as he delivers a televised speech at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon December 27, 2021. Dalati Nohra/Handout Could…
The dangerous impotence of UNIFIL’s mission in Lebanon
Published in the Times of Israel. Lebanon is in economic freefall, and the sectarian tensions between Shiite, Sunni, Christian, and Druze have paralyzed the government. Lebanon’s true power, Hezbollah is…
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Israel’s northern border: An Iranian threat underappreciated by the US
Previously published in the Jerusalem Report. Written with Sarit Zehavi. Does the US fully understand Iran’s grand designs for the Middle East? The Iranian regime presents its long-term strategic plan…
Does the Biden administration believe Iran is behind most Shia militias?
by Dr. Eric R. Mandel {Previously published in JNS} A controversy that occurred during a recent question-and-answer session for reporters by Pentagon press secretary John Kirby may have revealed a…
Hezbollah’s Largest Attack Tunnel and its Financial Supporters
{Previously published in the JNS} The significance of the Hezbollah tunnel is clear. It is just one element of the multi-dimensional, long-term Iranian strategy to threaten and eventually destroy Israel,…