How the Israeli Withdrawal from Lebanon Aided Hizballah and Encouraged the Second Intifada
And undermined the IDF’s fighting spirit.
May 26, 2020
Ethnic cleansing, desecration, and an end to freedom of worship.
Last Friday was Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), the holiday that celebrates Israel’s capture, during the Six-Day War, of those parts of Jerusalem that had been seized by Jordan in 1948. Gerald Steinberg uses the occasion to reflect on the two intervening decades in the city’s history:
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Login or SubscribeAnd undermined the IDF’s fighting spirit.
Ethnic cleansing, desecration, and an end to freedom of worship.
Confirming the fears of Muslims who want nothing of the sort to happen.
Protecting the victim and the poor.
A religion that abhors solitude.