Former Israeli national security adviser urges high alert in Greece, Cyprus

The CEO of I.M. Tattom Consulting Ilan Mizrahi, former deputy director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency and former national security adviser to the country's prime minister, analyzes the country's strategy of "surgical strikes" and its possible side effects in an interview with Kathimerini.

In your opinion, why did Israel choose to strike Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Iranian soil a few hours after the inauguration of the new Iranian president?

What happened against these two senior terrorists, Hezbollah (Fuad Shukr) in Beirut, and Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, is a kind of simultaneous action that has an impact on what we call the radical pole in the Middle East, that is, Iran and its subcontractors, as I call them. This act (striking Iran and Lebanon) was a very clear signal to Hezbollah, Iran, and the other terrorist organizations that are...