Veni, vidi, vici – I came, I saw, I conquered. This famous military pronouncement can certainly be applied to Israel’s Operation Rising Lion. But how can it be that the Israeli military and political leadership that so craftily planned the offensive that struck at Iran and Hezbollah could have collapsed so stunningly before the much smaller and weaker Hamas army in Gaza?
Founding coordinator of the Global Forum against Anti-Semitism in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, and former senior advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky. Israel office director of Canada’s Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs. A three-decade veteran diplomatic and defense columnist for The Jerusalem Post and many Jewish newspapers around the world.
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