Developing Hezbollah-Hamas Axis Gives Israel Serious Cause for Concern

There is broad consensus within Israel’s intelligence community that the upcoming festival of Ramadan, due to commence in exactly one week’s time, will be even more volatile than usual this year. There are many and varied reasons for this: the current wave of terrorism in Judea and Samaria that has been ongoing now for more than a year, the ever weakening ability of the Palestinian Authority to govern effectively, the lack of communication between Israel and the PA security forces, the incessant attempts by a variety of elements to foment violence on social media, as well as the profound internal…