Sublime

and present danger to the future of liberty.

of center and Israel’s center-right.

This failure to understand—or worse, to understand but not to acknowledge—the fundamental difference between deliberately targeting civilians and accidentally killing civilians in the course of self-defense reflects moral obtuseness at best and outright bigotry at worst.

Again it was brought home to Israel that its Arab enemies could afford to lose war after war with no threat to their existence and no danger to their civilian populations. But if Israel lost even a single war, it could mean the end of the Jewish state, a massacre of its civilian population, and the transfer of surviving refugees out of the country.

the sixties and seventies, after the Six Day War, a few scholars in Gaza concluded that Israel’s victory was a punishment for the breakdown of a godly society. As a result, they turned to Sharia. A young, idealistic, wheelchair-bound man named Ahmed Yassin joined the Muslim Brotherhood and started organizing the community in Gaza around mosques and

the Palestinian Authority held elections. Hamas, a terror organization long sworn to Israel’s destruction, won the popular vote by a thin margin,26 but due to the Palestinian electoral system and to massive disunity within Fatah, they captured a large majority of the seats in parliament. A thin popular victory turned into a landslide. Upon their el

Ben-Gurion was wrong about the Haredim disappearing. Their numbers ultimately grew dramatically, and they now constitute a massive economic and political force in Israel. They exert significant political pressure on governments both left and right, while still refusing (with rare exception) to have their members serve as ministers so as to prevent