“To understand the situation in full, one must remember that only several weeks ago two major attempts to carry out terror attacks against Israeli targets were foiled – the first against Israeli tourists in Thailand and the second in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

Those two attacks were orchestrated by experts and were prevented thanks to accurate intelligence. In both cases, the specialists were sent by Hezbollah and Iran: In the suspects were two Lebanese Hezbollah operatives – one of whom was caught and the other fled; and in Baku it was members of Iran’s Quds Force who tried to recruit Azeris to assassinate the Israeli ambassador.

Those two attempts were preceded by at least five others over the past few years. Iran and Hezbollah eventually gave up on a flashy terror attack in favor of two simple ones, reminiscent of the kind used as payback in the underworld; simply because they could not get around the security and intelligence Israel – with the assistance foreign governments – has in place.”

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