The latest round in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has heralded a new phase in the long-running confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah, the powerful Shiite militia and political party in Lebanon. For 17 years, mutual deterrence helped maintain a precarious calm, but since 7 October, rocket and drone attacks across the border have raised the spectre of a new war. On the Israeli side, it is becoming clearer that it wants to change the status quo - the presence of Hezbollah on its northern border. It is feared that attempts to impose a unilateral security regime on southern Lebanon, as Israel has done in the occupied West Bank and now in Gaza, could add fuel to the fire.<\/p>\n
Heiko Wimmen<\/strong> heads the Iraq\/Syria\/Lebanon project at the International Crisis Group. Previously, he was a research fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. He has also worked for the Carnegie Middle East Center and MERIP and recently edited an academic anthology on elite change and new social mobilisation in the Arab world. Gudrun Harrer<\/strong>, Senior Editor, Der Standard; Lecturer for Modern History and Politics of the Near and Middle East at the University of Vienna and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gudrun Harrer im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Heiko Wimmen ISRAEL UND HISBOLLAH: DROHT DER FL\u00c4CHENBRAND? Die j\u00fcngste Runde im israelisch-pal\u00e4stinensischen Konflikt hat eine neue Phase in der langj\u00e4hrigen Konfrontation zwischen Israel und der Hisbollah, der m\u00e4chtigen schiitischen Miliz und Partei im Libanon, eingel\u00e4utet. 17 Jahre lang trug die gegenseitige Abschreckung dazu bei, eine prek\u00e4re Ruhe zu erhalten, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5025,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[43],"class_list":["post-5024","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-internationale-politik-europa-und-sicherheit","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nWimmen has lived in the region since 1994, mainly in Beirut, where he currently resides.<\/p>\n