The IDF should have been prepared for an attack. It wasn’t.

Don’t give ammunition to the lies of Israel’s enemies.

Martha Gellhorn: wife of Hemingway and defender of the Jews.

And the forgotten battle that cost Moshe Dayan his eye.

But to no avail.

Israel can show its enemies, and third parties, that it has both the will and the ability to fight and to win.

Tom Derek Bowden, in memoriam.

The Ben-Gurion doctrine vs. the Dayan doctrine.

Gripping reading from recently declassified documents.

Partitioning the West Bank with Jordan.

Israel’s Gettysburg address.

Two flowers and an oleander.

As told by the Israeli official who brought them there.

“Israeli forbearance is rewarded with violence.”