As the United States completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan, some Israelis hear echoes of their own experiences in Southern Lebanon and Gaza. What lessons can be learned from these parallels? And does the collapse of the Afghan government and military portend a similar fate for the Palestinian Authority and its security forces, as politicians and pundits on the Israeli right have suggested? Israel Policy Forum's Evan Gottesman and Neri Zilber discuss.

Israelis Watch Afghanistan and Remember Lebanon - Neri Zilber (Newlines Magazine)

State with No Army, Army with No State - Neri Zilber and Ghaith al-Omari (The Washington Institute)

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