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Home / Israel / How Israel’s ceasefires with Hamas and Hezbollah are holding up
Israel, Middle East

November 23, 2025

How Israel’s ceasefires with Hamas and Hezbollah are holding up

“I think that Israel is continuing to push for its objectives in every place that it can through the region,” Rosemary Kelanic, the Middle East director for Defense Priorities, told the Washington Examiner, adding that despite the ceasefires, Israel has “a pretty consistent pattern of continuing to press the advantage, even when a ceasefire is on at a low level, such that they don’t get any kind of blowback from the United States for doing it.”

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Rosemary
Kelanic

Director, Middle East Program

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