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NEVER-ENDING Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets soldiers 14 years ago during a tour of the Israeli border with Egypt, long a source of tension and a major supply route for terrorists into Gaza, as demonstrated by this man being lowered into one of the tunnels dug by Hamas. Meanwhile fears are growing that fighting will flare again on the northern border with Lebanon, where smoke billowed from a village after an Israeli attack in May.


The next front in the Israel-Iran war is likely to be Lebanon, as Israeli leaders have expressed increasing frustration at their inability to curb Hezbollah attacks on Israel with limited counterstrikes.


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threat in Gaza. The U.S. is also pressuring


Israel to agree to the creation of a Palestinian state, some- thing retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, a former U.S. nation-


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al security adviser, called “a reward for Hamas’ violence and atrocities committed on Oct. 7.” The immediate U.S. goal


is to prevent Israel from at- tacking the biggest remain- ing Hamas stronghold in the


southern Gaza city of Rafah, where Israel believes an esti- mated 8,000 to 10,000 Hamas fighters have holed up, along with the group’s leadership and most of the Israeli hos- tages who are still alive. The U.S. is also eager to


prevent Israel from exposing what it believes are “38 huge tunnels that connect Egypt to Gaza, where Hamas is mov- ing weapons and operatives,” according to retired IDF Brigadier Gen. Amir Avivi,


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