Gotcha. This is new though. Two sovereign states in the ME are now overtly at war.It's ok, we've other threads on Israel as well.
Israeli Duty to Warn? What unmitigated gall (chutzpah)
Hamas, unprovoked and without warning, attacked Israel on Saturday, October 7. The Israelis, as was inevitable, fought back, hopefully hard. The New York Times' print edition contained an article "Gazans With Nowhere to Hide Issue a Plea: At Least Warn Us." The Times' electronic edition (link...islepoli.com
Here we go again: Denial is theme of disasters, starting with Hamas and going back at least to Pearl Harbor and WW II Start
Right now, everyone allied with Israel is crying about "failure of intelligence." Yet, just about every major attack that wasn't preempted (the way the Israelis did so brilliantly in 1967) was preceded by alleged "lack of intelligence." Examples, in reverse order are: Hamas attack, 2023...islepoli.com
Merge as appropriate though.