Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- August 27, 2019

Israel prepares to launch attack on Iranian targets in Syria © Global Look / Ayal Margolin

Tom O'Connor, Newsweek: Israel Appears to Attack Four Countries in Two Days, Bombing Iran's Allies Across Middle East

Israel has reportedly struck targets in four different countries within the span of two days as it broadened the scope of its extraterritorial activities against allies of Iran.

Israeli forces openly claimed attacks over the weekend in Syria and the Palestinian-administered Gaza Strip and were blamed for two more operations in Lebanon and Iraq. As reports of what occurred across the region emerged, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted at his country's ongoing efforts abroad, telling a Monday planning meeting that "we will deepen our roots and strike at our enemies."

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- August 27, 2019

Israel Waging Two New Wars in the Shadows? -- Adam Rawnsley, Daily Beast

The Iran-Israel War Is Here -- WSJ

The Israeli-Iranian cold war heats up -- Ilan Berman, The Hill

Israel’s shadow war with Iran bursts into the open -- Aron Heller, AP

Drone war takes flight, raising stakes in Iran, US tensions -- Byjon Gambrell, Josef Federman and Zeina Karam, ABC News/AP

Trump Lowers Bar for a Deal With Iran -- Eli Lake, Bloomberg

Why Kosovo keeps extending blind support to Israel -- Denijal Jegic, Al Jazeera

'Now or never': Hong Kong protesters say they have nothing to lose -- Marius Zaharia and Anne Marie Roantree, Reuters

Angering China Can Now Get You Fired -- Michael Schuman, The Atlantic

South Korea and Japan Need to End Their Dangerous Feud -- Bloomberg

Sympathy grows for Papuan independence -- John McBeth, Asia Times

Brazil's cocaine trade leaves widespread violence in its wake -- Anabel Hernandez, DW

Lula tells world he’s back in the game from jail -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times

The Case for Restraint: Drawing the Curtain on the American Empire -- Stewart M. Patrick, WPR

U.S. Natural Gas is the New, Global, Soft-Power Weapon -- Todd Royal, National Interest