Targeted Strikes Are Not Enough to Save Northern Israel from Hizballah
But the IDF might not be ready for war.
June 17, 2024
Herta Müller on the madness that has gripped the West.
Born into a Catholic family in a German-speaking village in southwestern Romania, Herta Müller won the Nobel Prize for her poetry and novels in 2009. Last month, Müller delivered a speech about the October 7 massacres, the Gaza war, and the escalation of anti-Semitism in which she displayed a moral clarity rarely heard from Europeans these days. Of the progressive-minded protesters eagerly repeating the slogans of bloodthirsty jihadists, she says:
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Login or SubscribeBut the IDF might not be ready for war.
After 74 years of bipartisan support.
Herta Müller on the madness that has gripped the West.
Leo Perutz’s By Night Under the Stone Bridge.
Living cemeteries and dead ones.