Jewish history’s ongoing tragedy is that too many hate us; Zionism’s enduring success is that we have a citizens’ army to protect us and a new mentality that will never, ever surrender again.
He is remembered as having warned of an attack before the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, but was ignored by military intelligence.
Israel’s two greatest national traumas were failures of Israeli vigilance and intelligence analysis, abetted by complacency.
Dr. Henry Kissinger was a controversial figure in modern history, but no one can deny his contribution to humanity.
After leaving office in 1977, Kissinger became more outspoken in favor of Israel, publicly declaring in a speech that year: “The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.”
The most profound and fundamental cause of the failures we are reckoning with today is the “concept” of maintaining the occupation as if we can contain its harmful implications.
We can be confident that Israeli society will be dramatically different after October 7. What we cannot know is what change is going to look like.
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The report noted that the information was uncovered during the interrogation of Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 massacre.
Primarily a history of military tactics and strategy, Eighteen Days in October also addresses diplomacy, albeit briefly.