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What? Again? Such was the stunning sense of surprise that rocked the world as the Palestinian militant resistance group Hamas delivered a devastating blow to Israel and the reputation of the nation’s globally respected intelligence services. What went wrong? For Israel, it seemed, just ...
Throughout Israel’s 76-year conflict with the Palestinians, certain cliches — like condemnations of the “cycle of violence” — have calcified. Last Saturday’s attacks on Israeli civilians betray their total bankruptcy. Israel did nothing to provoke this attack. There was no raid, no ...
Within hours of the slaughter in Israel, the question of Israel’s “massive intelligence failure” — as many have called it — came to dominate a lot of the media coverage and conversation. On one level, this is entirely defensible. Israeli officials acknowledge the obvious fact that ...
Israelis have likened the brutal assault from Gaza to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. “At Dawn We Slept” was a title of a book about that intelligence failure. As Israel investigates the complacency that left it open to a bloody invasion, Americans must ask themselves: Are we also ...
Donald Trump is getting indicted and tried all the way into a third Republican presidential nomination, and perhaps a second term in office. Trump’s court dates and legal entanglements aren’t a distraction from his campaign, as some observers predicted; in large part, they are the ...
“It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man.” — Calvin Coolidge Donald Trump is not a great man. His rhetoric, which has included denunciations of those who have served in the military (while he dodged ...