You are for sure right. I recall first reading Harkabi’s The Bar Kochva Syndrome when it came out right after Likud started to approve settlements in the West Bank warning about the future. Then only available in Hebrew. He also wrote Israel’s Fateful Hour. He used the Bar Kochva rebellion to show the folly of the “G-d is on our side” re…
You are for sure right. I recall first reading Harkabi’s The Bar Kochva Syndrome when it came out right after Likud started to approve settlements in the West Bank warning about the future. Then only available in Hebrew. He also wrote Israel’s Fateful Hour. He used the Bar Kochva rebellion to show the folly of the “G-d is on our side” religious fanatics 1,800 years ago, attacking Rome at the height of its power and causing the Jewish people its state—The Judeans were exiled. The remaining remnant melted into Christianity and later Islam and are now Palestinians. These books point out the nonsense of Israel as a superpower. Israel often punches above its weight class.
I now fear that Beinart’s aspiration “Israel-Palestine” will be brought on inadvertently by Netanyahu’s need to pull a rabbit out of a hat by attacking Iran. Such an attack might destroy Iran’s immediate nuclear project. But anyone thinking there will be no response from Iran and its proxies that would leave much of Israel in smoke, is for sure smoking a lot of bad weed. A bloodied Israel and totally dependent on America’s goodwill will be forced to live next to an ascendant Palestine. Such an Israel will be populated by the likes of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir the “start-up Nation” will be gone.
You are for sure right. I recall first reading Harkabi’s The Bar Kochva Syndrome when it came out right after Likud started to approve settlements in the West Bank warning about the future. Then only available in Hebrew. He also wrote Israel’s Fateful Hour. He used the Bar Kochva rebellion to show the folly of the “G-d is on our side” religious fanatics 1,800 years ago, attacking Rome at the height of its power and causing the Jewish people its state—The Judeans were exiled. The remaining remnant melted into Christianity and later Islam and are now Palestinians. These books point out the nonsense of Israel as a superpower. Israel often punches above its weight class.
I now fear that Beinart’s aspiration “Israel-Palestine” will be brought on inadvertently by Netanyahu’s need to pull a rabbit out of a hat by attacking Iran. Such an attack might destroy Iran’s immediate nuclear project. But anyone thinking there will be no response from Iran and its proxies that would leave much of Israel in smoke, is for sure smoking a lot of bad weed. A bloodied Israel and totally dependent on America’s goodwill will be forced to live next to an ascendant Palestine. Such an Israel will be populated by the likes of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir the “start-up Nation” will be gone.