Israel Thought It Had Deterred Hamas, While in Fact Hamas Had Deterred Israel
The end of the Gaza illusions.
November 21, 2023
Israel Thought It Had Deterred Hamas, While in Fact Hamas Had Deterred Israel
The end of the Gaza illusions.
Last week, Assaf Orion came on our podcast to speak about the IDF’s air campaign in Gaza. In this essay, Orion takes a careful look at how Israel underestimated its vulnerability to Hamas, and how Jerusalem should imagine its strategic goals. He begins by looking at how strategists failed to draw the correct lessons from the many short wars with Hamas between 2006 and May 2023:
November 21, 2023
The State Department Should Quash, Not Coddle, Those Rebelling against the Administration’s Israel Policy
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Feminists Rush to Defend Hamas’s Atrocities
Those reporting accounts of rape are accused of “the Islamophobic and racist weaponization of sexual violence.”
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