“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme,” Mark Twain once said. 

The current situation in Israel is awfully close to a repeat of 1948, beginning with the slaughter and humiliation of Jews and a pledge to destroy us all.

We won’t know how Israel’s security system failed us until after we win this war and have a national inquiry.

In the meantime, I offer another pertinent piece of advice from Twain.

He said: “Keep all your eggs in one basket, and then guard that basket very, very well.”

It’s the second part that we seem to have missed.

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