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Martin Di Caro

mdicaro@washingtontimes.com

Martin Di Caro was the host of the History As It Happens podcast at The Washington Times.

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A Middle East Airlines airplane flies over Beirut as smoke rises from Dahiyeh, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Listen: The ‘new’ Middle East

This is the second in a two-part series examining the consequences of the Hamas terrorist atrocities in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the year of war that followed.

October 9, 2024
A Palestinian woman brandishes helmets during a memorial service in Beirut September 27, 1982, for victims of Lebanon's Sabra refugee camp massacre. A series of images, including this photo, won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. Hal Buell, who led The Associated Press' photo operations from the darkroom era into the age of digital photography over a four-decade career with the news organization that included 12 Pulitzer Prizes and some of the defining images of the Vietnam War, has died. He was 92. (AP Photo/Bill Foley, File)

History As It Happens: The looming quagmire

Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon to root out Hezbollah strong points is evoking comparisons to the 1982 war. Its horrendous violence prompted President Reagan to warn Israel that it risked sinking into a quagmire.

October 2, 2024
Statue of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. Photo: Martin Di Caro/The Washington Times

History As It Happens: Election of 1800

The contest between John Adams' Federalists and Thomas Jefferson's Republicans was one of the most vicious and hyperbolic in American history.

August 14, 2024
A poster showing the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, left, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, center, and the late Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani is set near a damaged building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday evening in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Israel on Tuesday carried out a rare strike on Beirut, which it said killed a top Hezbollah commander who was allegedly behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

History As It Happens: Origins of Hezbollah

The militant Lebanese Shia group was established after the second Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Its 1985 manifesto calls for the destruction of the Jewish state.

August 7, 2024