Has Israel signed its own death warrant? From Ron Unz at unz.com:
Twelve Months That May Have Doomed Both Israel and Global Jewish Power
Today marks the one year anniversary of the remarkably successful Hamas raid on Israel, in which some 1,500 lightly-armed Islamic militants from Gaza so greatly humiliated the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his country’s entire national security establishment. The consequences of these last twelve months have been enormous, not merely for the Jewish State and the rest of the Middle East, but also for America and the entire world.
For many fatal diseases the cause of death is less the result of the infection itself than that of the defensive immune system, whose massive over-reaction destroys vital tissue, killing the entire organism. And I think that the Hamas raid of October 7, 2023 and the Israeli response may eventually be seen in this light.
Some 1,200 Israelis died that day, probably many or most of them killed by their own country’s panic-stricken and trigger-happy IDF forces, whose Apache helicopters were ordered to blast anything that moved. Although such losses were hardly insignificant in a Jewish population of some 7.2 million and the national humiliation was enormous, if the Israeli government had merely been content to launch a few weeks of punitive bombing attacks against Gaza and then grudgingly accept an exchange of prisoners with its Hamas adversaries, I doubt the results would have been too serious.
They gotta go for it under Joe Joe Brandon.
Plus the demographics clock is ticking.
Youngsters just don’t care about the 1940s.
What a fast year.
As Savage said, you get older and have more years to work with overall so it goes fast.
As a youth you are in is this summer vacation ever going to end mode.
Breaking from I (Abbath):
Cursed We Are