Israel Can Gradually Dismantle Hamas in Gaza, Without Resuming Full-Scale War
The most likely outcome.
December 30, 2025
A report on the perversity of brilliance.
Norman Podhoretz was many things, but one thing he was not was a scholar. Yet he had a unique mental acuity that allowed him to intuit what historians would eventually unearth. The great example was his devastating 1963 takedown of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, a book that remains one of the most widely read studies of the Holocaust, despite having been largely discredited.
The most likely outcome.
No, but they might send an important message.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his meaningless apology.
A report on the perversity of brilliance.
A story in the ashes.
Norman Podhoretz was many things, but one thing he was not was a scholar. Yet he had a unique mental acuity that allowed him to intuit what historians would eventually unearth. The great example was his devastating 1963 takedown of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, a book that remains one of the most widely read studies of the Holocaust, despite having been largely discredited.
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