Tensions are heightening while Russia pulls back.

Not the usual saber-rattling.

Alois Brunner in Damascus.

In June alone, the group carried out eighteen attacks.

Via Egypt and Syria.

It may also be sending a message to Prime Minister Yair Lapid.

And the U.S. should discourage it from doing so.

But will the new approach work?

Amman has an Iran problem.

Demographic engineering.

The ayatollahs are rubbing their hands in glee as their Russian allies make life difficult for their American enemies.

Yet the Biden administration scuppered a plan to make that happen.

Moscow might try to counter Washington by punishing the Jewish state.

Its largest attack since March 2019.