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Assessing Israel’s war.
June 23, 2026
Fighting enemies that can’t be contained.
Guiding Israel’s current policy in Lebanon is, above all, a desire to avoid the circumstances, and strategic errors, that led to the surprise attack from Gaza. In a recent book, Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot attempt to reconstruct those mistakes. Judith Miller writes in her review:
Assessing Israel’s war.
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Fighting enemies that can’t be contained.
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Guiding Israel’s current policy in Lebanon is, above all, a desire to avoid the circumstances, and strategic errors, that led to the surprise attack from Gaza. In a recent book, Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot attempt to reconstruct those mistakes. Judith Miller writes in her review:
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