Hamas Isn’t Invincible
“When Islamists start to lose wars, the faithful soon lose heart.”
December 19, 2024
The Drawbacks of Israel’s Military Brilliance
Feats like the exploding pagers can create a false sense of what the IDF can achieve.
One thing that has become clear in the past fourteen months is that the process of defeating Hamas and Hizballah is a long and arduous one. To Ariel Vishne, the problem with such Israeli feats of intelligence and technological wizardry as the detonation of Hizballah pagers is that they can mask the need for the sort of patient, messy operations like the one the IDF is conducting in Gaza. His argument is not that the pager attack was ill-considered, or indeed, anything but a success, only that there can be ancillary costs to such displays of ingenuity:
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The Drawbacks of Israel’s Military Brilliance
Feats like the exploding pagers can create a false sense of what the IDF can achieve.
France’s Foreign-Policy Hypocrisy Extends to Israel
Speaking of justice while doing business with bad actors.
Adventures on the Sea of the Talmud
Real-estate law, giant frogs, and the Jewish Sinbad.
Despite Lingering Anti-Semitism, Slovakia Is a Safe Haven for Jews
“A surprising and highly gratifying degree of philo-Semitism.”