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The Conflict in the Middle East Is About One Thing: Iran
Mourners surrounded the coffins of people killed in the Golan Heights by a rocket strike from Lebanon on July 27. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP via Getty Images)
Journalist Haviv Rettig Gur joins Bari Weiss on Honestly as the war between Israel and Hezbollah heats up.
By Bari Weiss
07.30.24 — International
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On Saturday afternoon, a Hezbollah rocket fired from southern Lebanon struck a soccer field in the village of Majdal Shams in Israel’s north, killing 12 children.

For the last 10 months, many have warned that Israel is on the brink of a major war with Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy terror group that controls southern Lebanon. But the truth is that Hezboll…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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