But unlike Hamas, the Shiite Hezbollah has been armed by Iran completely undetected which enabled the Hezbollah to drive Israel out of its positions in southern Lebanon with relative ease in 2000. Without Hezbollah, the Assad regime would not have been able to cling to power during the Syrian civil war. Attacks by Hezbollah on northern Israel repelled by Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’, have become commonplace. In his eye-opening book, Joseph Croitoru explains why all of this is just a prelude to open warfare and thus to a conflagration in the Middle East for which the West – so far – is entirely unprepared.

The level of detail in Croitoru’s book is as impressive as its factual presentation. - René Wildangel, Süddeutsche Zeitung (on Die Hamas)