MembersI’ve Never Met a Bad Shiite

Two weeks ago, I received an email from one such expert who had talked to two Iranian analysts in Tehran regarding Israel’s latest scoop on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. I later received from her a WhatsApp message reading: “For us (in Israel) the Shiites are better than the Sunnis.” I explained to her why that is often the case. During my service in the IDF in the 1980s, I worked together with Shiites in southern Lebanon. At that time, Israel was in close cooperation with the now-defunct South Lebanon Army (SLA), which was founded in 1976 during the course of the Lebanese civil war. Israel and the SLA forged an alliance to combat the Palestinian terrorist organizations, namely the PLO and Amal, that had infiltrated and seized control of large parts...