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Hanan Shai

Dr. Hanan Shai is a lecturer in the political-science department at Bar-Ilan University.

Despite the IDF’s spectacular exploits and extensive destruction of targets, it appears that control over the length of the quiet and the quality of Israel’s security will remain in Hamas’s hands.
Although she lacked military knowledge, on the eve of the Yom Kippur War Prime Minister Golda Meir exposed the fact that deterrence and early warning, the two cornerstones of Israel’s security conception, were without foundation.
Israel is not just a democracy; it is a Jewish democracy. In its fight against the pandemic, the country is acting in contravention of its own moral values.
Israel is engulfed in a moral crisis, not a judicial one, and it needs to be addressed as such.
The enemy was supposed to give up simply because of shock and awe caused by fireworks displays of advanced technology and intelligence, amazing in their precision and power. The result: an exhausting war of attrition that has gone on since 2002.
Since classic anti-Semitism is currently out of fashion, it’s channeling its hatred of Jews to the State of Israel, whose insistence on constitutionally defending itself as a nation-state is a veritable call to arms.
We also cannot hide from the fact that rather than beating and deterring Hamas, Hamas is beating and deterring us.
The author of the report, outgoing IDF Ombudsman Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brik, hails from the 1973 Yom Kippur War generation, which is still convinced that the IDF’s losses stemmed from an intelligence failure and because the emergency warehouses weren’t prepared for war.