"There Is Always Israel"

'When nothing else works, there is always Israel!" This is how the late Egyptian journalist Lutfi al-Khuli liked to describe the motto of Arab radicalism decades ago. The analysis was apt because the Arab obsession with Israel did work on countless occasions.

Amir Taheri, writing in the Jerusalem Post on why trying to use war to divert attention away from their problems may not work for Iran, Syria and Hizbullah.