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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:

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November 21, 2023

  1. Israel Thought It Had Deterred Hamas, While in Fact Hamas Had Deterred Israel

    The end of the Gaza illusions.

  2. The State Department Should Quash, Not Coddle, Those Rebelling against the Administration’s Israel Policy

    Civil servants need to remember their place in the American system of government.

  3. Feminists Rush to Defend Hamas’s Atrocities

    Those reporting accounts of rape are accused of “the Islamophobic and racist weaponization of sexual violence.”

  4. The American Jewish Athletes Excluded from the German Olympics in 1936

    The story of Marty Glickman.

  5. A Great Jewish Photojournalist Who Documented Kibbutzim, Vietnam, and Much Else

    The life and death of Paul Schutzer.