Meanwhile, in Gaza, Hamas Is on the Ropes
David Hornik | 8:01 PM on June 09, 2026 AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi These past few days the Middle East spotlight has been, for good reason, on Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran. At the time of writing, things are at a standstill, and no one knows what comes next. We can only wait and see.Meanwhile, the veteran and venerable Israeli military-affairs analyst Ron Ben Yishai has filed a report from Gaza that gives—dare we say—an encouraging picture of the current condition of another of Iran’s terror proxies, Hamas.
- ▪David Hornik | 8:01 PM on June 09, 2026 AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi These past few days the Middle East spotlight has been, for good reason, on Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran.
- ▪At the time of writing, things are at a standstill, and no one knows what comes next.
- ▪We can only wait and see.Meanwhile, the veteran and venerable Israeli military-affairs analyst Ron Ben Yishai has filed a report from Gaza that gives—dare we say—an encouraging picture of the current condition of another of Iran’s terror pr
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Meanwhile, in Gaza, Hamas Is on the Ropes P. David Hornik | 8:01 PM on June 09, 2026 AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi These past few days the Middle East spotlight has been, for good reason, on Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran. At the time of writing, things are at a standstill, and no one knows what comes next. After the exchange of fire between Israel and Iran, the latter, notes Israeli journalist Amit Segal, “warned that any further Israeli aggression—specifically ‘including in southern Lebanon’—would be met with ‘much more severe and crushing measures.’” Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Despite that, on Tuesday, Israel went ahead and attacked Hezbollah infrastructure in the…
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