Hamas, unprovoked and without warning, attacked Israel on Saturday, October 7. The Israelis, as was inevitable, fought back, hopefully hard. The New York Times' print edition contained an article "Gazans With Nowhere to Hide Issue a Plea: At Least Warn Us." The Times' electronic edition (link...
Right now, everyone allied with Israel is crying about "failure of intelligence." Yet, just about every major attack that wasn't preempted (the way the Israelis did so brilliantly in 1967) was preceded by alleged "lack of intelligence." Examples, in reverse order are:
Hamas attack, 2023...
OK, let's roll with it. Should we be commemorating the ceaseless warfare among the "Indigenous Peoples" that preceded European colonization, see War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage by Lawrence H. Keeley. Or the Mayan custom of throwing their sacrificial targets down...
I just finished reading Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden made us Care About Jews, the South and Civil Rights, by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett. I have to say I'm biased; I am Jewish, and the central focus of the book concerned the era from a few years before I was born through the late 1960's...