The Yom Kippur War (VI): The End Game
How a daring Israeli officer boldly turned the tide of battle & unwittingly helped the United States to definitively steal Egypt away from the Soviet Union.
Approaching Yom Yerushalayim
It’s important to recognize Israel’s internal development from mere survival & political independence to the liberation of Jerusalem.
The Yom Kippur War (V): Down But Not Out
How close did the State of Israel come to total annihilation before IDF field commanders were able to successfully turn the Yom Kippur War around?
The Yom Kippur War (IV): A Stunning Blow
How US deception, military arrogance & a desire to appear as the ‘good guy’ to the world caused Israel to suffer a stunning surprise attack on two fronts.
The Yom Kippur War (III): Breaking the Concept
How Egyptian President Anwar Sadat broke free of the constraints of Soviet control & successfully tricked an arrogant Israeli military establishment.
The Yom Kippur War (II): The Cherbourg Boats
Long before there was a ‘start-up nation’ the children of Israel were the ‘can do people.’ But the Jewish state’s constant crisis-solving posture has often created new challenges of its own.
The Yom Kippur War (I): Israel’s Black Panthers & the Context for Surprise
Labor Zionist attitudes toward the Israeli Black Panthers revealed a psychological blind spot that would later be exploited in a deadly surprise attack.
An Exploration of Vengeance with Thane Rosenbaum
Is there a moral value to vengeance that’s deeply human yet often obscured by bourgeois ideology?
The War of Attrition (III): An Honorable Peace
How Prime Minister Golda Meir, one of Israel’s hardest national leaders, mistakenly let her country become dependent on the US and ultimately succumbed to pressure to accept the Rogers Plan.
The War of Attrition (II): The Diplomatic Front
How would lifelong soldier Yitzḥak Rabin navigate his new complicated ‘battlefield’ as the State of Israel’s ambassador to Washington?
The War of Attrition (I): Challenging National Conceptions
What did President Gamal Abdel Nasser mean by a ‘war of attrition’ with Israel in the wake of the Six Day War that humiliated Egypt and the Arab world?
Israel After 1967 (III): Returning to Hebron
The results of the Six Day War led to an unavoidable return to aspects of Jewish identity the Zionist movement hadn’t fully anticipated or desired.