Arab states, mostly Syria, and non-state organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah have been part of the Iranian–Israeli conflict. Israel stayed outside the civil war in Syria, without supporting the rebels or Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah, which are Iran’s allies, that is, they oppose Israel. In Lebanon, there might be a clash between Israel and Hezbollah, particularly if Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear sites. Hamas is also an Iranian partner and an enemy of Israel. Yet the latter tolerates Hamas’ rule in the Gaza Strip for lack of a better choice.
Ben-Gurion, D. (1972). Uniqueness and destiny. Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense.
3.
Bergman, R. (2007). Point of no return. Or Yehuda: Kinneret, Zmora—Bitan, Dvir.
4.
Chorev, M. (2016, March). “Deterrence campaigns”: Lessons from IDF operations in Gaza. Ramat Gan, Israel: The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University.
5.
Cohen, A. (2000). Israel and the bomb. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Shocken.
6.
Deeb, M. (2013). Syria, Iran and Hezbollah: The unholy alliance and its war on Lebanon. Stanford, California: Hoover Institute Press.
Goodarzi, M.J. (2013, January). Syria and Iran: Alliance cooperation in a changing regional environment. Middle East Studies, 4(2), 31–59.
14.
Handel, M.L. (1973). Israel’s political–military doctrine. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
15.
Hendel, Y., & Karz, Y. (2012). Israel vs. Iran: The shadow war. Dulles: Virginia Potomac Books.
16.
Kam, E. (2004). From terror to nuclear bombs: The significance of the Iranian threat. Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense.
17.
Kurz, A., & Brom, S. (Eds) (2014). The lessons of operation protective edge. Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).
18.
Levitt, M. (2013). Hezbollah: The global footprint of Lebanon’s party of God. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
19.
Makovsky, D. (2016). Israel imperiled: Threats to the Jewish state. The testimony submitted to House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, a joint meeting held by the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.
Marrero, A.F. (2007). Hezbollah as a non-state actor in the Second Lebanon War: An operational analysis. In K.D.Gott (Ed.), Warfare in the age of non-state actors implications for the U.S. army (pp. 290–291). Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press US Army Combined Arms Center.
Nerguizian, A. (2015). The military balance in a shattered levant: Conventional forces, asymmetric warfare and the struggle for Syria (Draft Report). Washington, DC: Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS).
27.
Podeh, E. (2014). Israel and the Arab Peace Initiative, 2002–2014: A plausible missed opportunity. The Middle East Journal, 68(4), 584–603.
Yaniv, A. (1994). Politics and strategy in Israel. Tel Aviv: Sifriat Poalim.
43.
Zagdanski, J.D. (2007). Round 2 in Lebanon: How the IDF focused exclusively on COIN and lost the ability to fight maneuver war. Infantry, September-October, 96(5), 32–35.
44.
Zisser, E. (2015, August10). Still nothing new in Syria. Tel Aviv Notes, Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University, 9(14), 1–7.
