David Schenker is the Taube Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics. He is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
Watch an expert discussion of the risks and implications of a potential attack by Iran-backed Hezbollah on Israel in support of Hamas.
As hundreds of thousands of Israeli reservists mobilize to respond to Hamas’s barbaric terrorist attack this week, tensions are also rising along Israel’s northern border, with rockets from Lebanon landing in the Western Galilee. Indeed, numerous analysts believe Hamas would never have launched its massive go-for-broke attack without a guarantee from Hezbollah and their mutual Iranian patron that the Lebanese Shia militia would mount its own massive attack if Israeli ground forces enter Gaza.
To discuss the prospects for a second front in Israel’s war against terrorist groups on its borders, The Washington Institute hosted a virtual Policy Forum with:
David Schenker, the Institute’s Taube Senior Fellow and director of its Rubin Program on Arab Politics; former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs
Hanin Ghaddar, the Institute’s Friedmann Senior Fellow and coauthor of its 2018 study “Iran’s Precision Missile Project Moves to Lebanon”
Maj. Gen. Yair Golan (Israel Defense Forces, Res.), former deputy chief of staff and commander of the northern front; former member of Knesset
Farzin Nadimi, a senior fellow with the Institute and author of its recent study “The Next Generation of Iranian Ballistic Missiles”
The Policy Forum series is made possible through the generosity of the Florence and Robert Kaufman Family.
David Schenker is the Taube Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics. He is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute's Rubin Family Arab Politics Program, where she focuses on Shia politics throughout the Levant.
Yair Golan, a former major general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was a 2017 military fellow at The Washington Institute.
Farzin Nadimi, a Senior Fellow with The Washington Institute, is a Washington-based analyst specializing in the security and defense affairs of Iran and the Persian Gulf region.