For the past four decades, Israel’s experience of fighting paramilitary militias has been grim.Its last major operation was in southern Lebanon, which started with Operation Peace for Galilee in 1982. While initially successful, the subsequent occupation of southern Lebanon led directly to the rise of the Hezbollah Shia militias, persistent losses for the Israel … [Read more...] about Land wars go badly – and today’s world knows it
Middle East
Israel and Hamas: the debasement of discourse
The world is on fire and everything is wrong and right at the same time. Reading and watching the news, most of the phrases ring hollow, as if there were no words for what is right, no language to describe reality accurately. The horrific massacre by Hamas of more than 1,400 people, the vast majority Jewish-Israeli civilians, was immeasurable even by the standards of war … [Read more...] about Israel and Hamas: the debasement of discourse