In Dealing With the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, America Has No Easy Way Out
Wars in the Middle East rarely end cleanly. Some observers, however, have expressed the hope that the Israel-Hamas war could upend a dangerous status quo and eventually lead to more stability in the region. The war is often compared to the October 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and the combined forces of Egypt and Syria, largely because of the magnitude of Israel’s intelligence failures, the Israeli public’s loss of faith in their government, and the national trauma that followed.
But the truth is that any meaningful comparison ends there. More than 2,800 Israelis were killed in the Yom Kippur War.… Seguir leyendo »