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On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered military strikes on Lebanon’s capital Beirut - the latest move in a campaign against militant group Hezbollah that has seen Israeli forces occupy large swathes of the country’s south.
This escalation underscores a major disparity when it comes to expectation versus reality for the Israeli government. Part of its rationale for attacking Iran in late February was that a collapse of the Islamic Republic would starve Hezbollah of the support it relies on from Tehran. But as historian Asher Kaufman notes, a recurring pattern of the violence between Israel and Lebanon over the last four decades is that Hezbollah emerges emboldened. “Contrary to Israeli hopes,
Iran’s patronage of Hezbollah has not been ended by the Iran war. And to confound issues, continued Israeli occupation of Lebanese land could grant Hezbollah the necessary justification to sustain its narrative of
resistance at the cost of the broader Lebanese population,” he writes.
In a separate article, Beth Spacey, an expert on the Medieval crusades, takes a deep dive into the historical significance of the 12th-century Beaufort Castle, which has been seized in Lebanon by Israeli forces during the latest push.
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Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame
Unable to defeat Iran, Israel shifts its focus to Lebanon, fearing U.S. negotiations with Tehran could limit operations against Hezbollah.
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Beth Spacey, The University of Queensland
This has historically been a very strategic site, especially during the Crusades.
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Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago
Geography may not provide meaningful protection once an outbreak is already underway.
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Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University
A new DNA test could spare millions of breast cancer patients from chemotherapy. We answer your questions about what it means and who it helps.
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Sebastian Egholm Lund, University of Oxford
William Adams was convinced that solar energy could change the world. The problem was, he needed more sun to demonstrate it.
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Adam James Fenton, Coventry University; Chris Shannahan, Coventry University
Researchers interviewed almost 30 religious leaders across all six major religious faiths in the UK to find out how AI was affecting them.
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Andrew Parsons, University of Virginia
Uncertainty is common in medicine, and AI isn’t very good at navigating it.
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Huaying Wang, Cleveland State University
After my niece died by suicide, I began researching how Chinese immigrant families feel about their children’s mental health and why they often avoid care.
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Ayla Göl, York St John University
Nullifying the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party is the latest in a string of measures that are taking the country down the road to autocracy.
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Mehebub Sahana, University of Manchester; Bayes Ahmed, UCL
Bangladesh’s planned Padma Barrage may repeat mistakes made by India when it dammed the Ganges.
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