Universities Are in Thrall to a Constituency That Sees Israel as an Affront to Its Identity
Anti-Semitism is a symptom.
December 8, 2023
It will only happen when its leadership believes it faces imminent annihilation.
Given the terrorist group’s intense ideological commitments, its glorification of “martyrdom,” and the recent experiences of various militaries fighting jihadist groups, there is reason to think that Hamas will keep fighting until the last man. But there are also reasons to think otherwise, among them photographs that appeared yesterday in the Israeli press of the IDF detaining dozens of fighters who, presumably, had surrendered. Robert Satloff and Dennis Ross write:
Anti-Semitism is a symptom.
It will only happen when its leadership believes it faces imminent annihilation.
It’s not a struggle for liberation.
Reading Joseph through Jacob and Esau.
“In exile, not only is history unfinished, but so is poetry.”
Given the terrorist group’s intense ideological commitments, its glorification of “martyrdom,” and the recent experiences of various militaries fighting jihadist groups, there is reason to think that Hamas will keep fighting until the last man. But there are also reasons to think otherwise, among them photographs that appeared yesterday in the Israeli press of the IDF detaining dozens of fighters who, presumably, had surrendered. Robert Satloff and Dennis Ross write:
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