Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- August 29, 2019

Saphora Smith, Linda Givetash and Lawahez Jabari, NBC News: Israel's shadow war with Iran risks triggering wider conflict, analysts say

“If you infringe on their sovereignty — how much are they going to tolerate it?" Yossi Mekelberg, a professor of international relations, said.

LONDON — A recent series of airstrikes in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon that neighboring countries blame on Israel risks escalating into a wider conflict, some analysts say.

The strikes — most of which Israel has not claimed responsibility for — began Saturday when Israel claimed to have thwarted an imminent Iranian attack by striking an elite wing of Iran's Revolutionary Guardnear Damascus, the Syrian capital.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Twitter that the Iranian fighters were targeting Israelis living in the Golan Heights, a region that Israel annexed from Syria after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- August 29, 2019

The Israel-Iran Shadow War Escalates and Breaks Into the Open -- The New York Times

Battle for Aden: Who is fighting who and how things got here -- Al Jazeera

Clear and present danger: Iraq is at a tipping point of chaos and confusion -- Mustafa Alrawi, The National

What happens next? How Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament could force Remain MPs to spring their plot to block No Deal or force an election next week... if they can get their act

together -- Joel Adams and Tim Stickings, Daily Mail

Could a US Recession End the Trade War? -- Shang-Jin Wei, Project Syndicate

The Guardian view on Hong Kong: what next? -- Guardian editorial

China’s Grand Plans for Shenzhen -- Eleanor Albert, The Diplomat

Why Greenland is really about China -- Nadia Schadlow, The Hill

Afghan war — What to expect from the US-Taliban Doha talks -- Shamil Shams & Masood Saifullah, DW

Afghanistan: nearly two decades of US intervention -- AFP

Why are we not seeing a revolution in Zimbabwe? -- Marian L. Tupy, CAPX

Russia pushing 'unsuitable' nuclear power in Africa, critics claim -- Jason Burke, The Guardian

Who is Oleksiy Honcharuk, Ukraine's new prime minister? -- Al Jazeera

Ukraine's Oleksiy Honcharuk: From political outsider to prime minister -- Roman Goncharenko, DW

The Brutal Truths Of Maduro's 'Last Stand' In Venezuela -- World Crunch Editorial

Trump — or What, Exactly? -- Victor Davis Hanson, NRO