Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Iran–Israel proxy conflict" in English language version.
Iran's annual financial aid to Hamas is believed to be around $20 million, which helps the group run its government in the Gaza Strip. Both parties enjoyed warm ties since 2006 when Hamas won an election against the Western-backed Fatah movement. But the crisis in Syria has led to problems between them.
Iranian rhetoric and statements from leaders that reflect hatred and deny Israeli legitimacy, reinforced by military parades in Tehran featuring missiles with signs proclaiming 'Wipe Israel off the Map' and 'Destination Tel Aviv,' ... Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's genocidal declarations reflect a fundamentalist and apocalyptic Islamist whose words and intentions are focused on the destruction of Israel. ... In 2001, former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani called the establishment of Israel the 'worst event in history' and declared that 'in due time the Islamic world will have a military nuclear device, and then the strategy of the West would reach a dead end, since one bomb is enough to destroy all Israel.' ... Similar attention was given to bellicose statements by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hoseyni Khamenei, such as 'the cancerous tumor called Israel must be uprooted.'
And if there is one thing that ideologically and diametrically opposed Hezbollah and Israel agree on, it is Hezbollah's growing military strength.
Death squad comprising of 'eight suspects, including Iranian nationals, who were plotting attacks on Israeli citizens in Turkey.'
From 2000 to 2006, Iran contributed a hundred million dollars a year to Hezbollah. Its fighters are attractive proxies: unlike the Iranians, they speak Arabic, making them better equipped to operate in Syria and elsewhere in the Arab world.
American spy satellites watched Israeli drones take off from bases in Azerbaijan and fly south over the Iranian border — taking extensive pictures of Iran's nuclear sites and probing whether Iranian air defenses spotted the intrusion.
....the fighting has also diluted the resources that used to go exclusively to facing Israel, exacerbated sectarian divisions in the region, and alienated large segments of the majority Sunni population who once embraced Hezbollah as a liberation force... Never before have Hezbollah guerrillas fought alongside a formal army, waged war outside Lebanon or initiated broad offensives aimed at seizing territory.
Hezbollah, stronger than the Lebanese Army, has the power to drag the country into war without a government decision, as in 2006, when it set off the war by capturing two Israeli soldiers.
On Saturday, 7 October — a Jewish sabbath day, the end of the weeklong Jewish festival of Sukkot, and a day after the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War — Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups launched Operation al-Aqsa Flood, a coordinated assault consisting of land and air attacks into multiple border areas of Israel.
Israel and Iran have been urged to step back from the brink after their most serious direct confrontation, with Israeli missiles being fired over war-torn Syria in a "wide-scale" retaliatory attack many fear could drag the foes into a spiralling war.
...Hasan Nasrallah has called the deployment of his fighters to Syria a 'new phase' for the movement, and it marks the first time the group has sent significant numbers of men outside Lebanon's borders.
... Hezbollah, which has a fighting force generally considered more powerful than the Lebanese army.
Iran's annual financial aid to Hamas is believed to be around $20 million, which helps the group run its government in the Gaza Strip. Both parties enjoyed warm ties since 2006 when Hamas won an election against the Western-backed Fatah movement. But the crisis in Syria has led to problems between them.
Israel and Iran have been urged to step back from the brink after their most serious direct confrontation, with Israeli missiles being fired over war-torn Syria in a "wide-scale" retaliatory attack many fear could drag the foes into a spiralling war.
Iranian rhetoric and statements from leaders that reflect hatred and deny Israeli legitimacy, reinforced by military parades in Tehran featuring missiles with signs proclaiming 'Wipe Israel off the Map' and 'Destination Tel Aviv,' ... Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's genocidal declarations reflect a fundamentalist and apocalyptic Islamist whose words and intentions are focused on the destruction of Israel. ... In 2001, former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani called the establishment of Israel the 'worst event in history' and declared that 'in due time the Islamic world will have a military nuclear device, and then the strategy of the West would reach a dead end, since one bomb is enough to destroy all Israel.' ... Similar attention was given to bellicose statements by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hoseyni Khamenei, such as 'the cancerous tumor called Israel must be uprooted.'
On Saturday, 7 October — a Jewish sabbath day, the end of the weeklong Jewish festival of Sukkot, and a day after the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War — Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups launched Operation al-Aqsa Flood, a coordinated assault consisting of land and air attacks into multiple border areas of Israel.
....the fighting has also diluted the resources that used to go exclusively to facing Israel, exacerbated sectarian divisions in the region, and alienated large segments of the majority Sunni population who once embraced Hezbollah as a liberation force... Never before have Hezbollah guerrillas fought alongside a formal army, waged war outside Lebanon or initiated broad offensives aimed at seizing territory.
...Hasan Nasrallah has called the deployment of his fighters to Syria a 'new phase' for the movement, and it marks the first time the group has sent significant numbers of men outside Lebanon's borders.
And if there is one thing that ideologically and diametrically opposed Hezbollah and Israel agree on, it is Hezbollah's growing military strength.
Hezbollah, stronger than the Lebanese Army, has the power to drag the country into war without a government decision, as in 2006, when it set off the war by capturing two Israeli soldiers.
... Hezbollah, which has a fighting force generally considered more powerful than the Lebanese army.
From 2000 to 2006, Iran contributed a hundred million dollars a year to Hezbollah. Its fighters are attractive proxies: unlike the Iranians, they speak Arabic, making them better equipped to operate in Syria and elsewhere in the Arab world.
