War Has Changed, but Territory Still Matters
A painful loss for Israel’s enemies.
March 8, 2024
The atrocities weren’t a byproduct of war but an end in themselves.
Ask the Harvard students who created the offending social-media post what cause they’re supporting, and they might say something about “Palestinian rights,” or “justice in Palestine.” But Hamas is not interested in Palestinian rights, and its mission is a religious one, to which the barbarism displayed on October 7 is essential. Alvin Rosenfeld writes:
A painful loss for Israel’s enemies.
What attracted Harvard students to a 1960s anti-Semitic cartoon?
The atrocities weren’t a byproduct of war but an end in themselves.
The astrolabe of Verona.
A dispute between the old world and the new?
Ask the Harvard students who created the offending social-media post what cause they’re supporting, and they might say something about “Palestinian rights,” or “justice in Palestine.” But Hamas is not interested in Palestinian rights, and its mission is a religious one, to which the barbarism displayed on October 7 is essential. Alvin Rosenfeld writes:
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