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Max Boot ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

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CFR fellow, WaPo columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. NYT bestseller. New book: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND (Sept โ€˜24). Posting mostly on Threads.

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The wars in both Gaza and Ukraine should remind complacent Western leaders that our adversaries do not share our liberal values and, thus, are much less casualty-conscious than Western militaries are. That gives them a major military advantage. wapo.st/479jIz5

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Hamas attacked cell towers with drones to blind Israelโ€™s high-tech monitoring systems. Russia has used electronic warfare systems to jam the GPS of Ukraineโ€™s U.S.-made rocket systems. Both examples show other adversaries how to blunt the US military edge. wapo.st/479jIz5

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โ€œOur defense industrial base has atrophied over the past 30 years and has now become a critical vulnerability,โ€ Lt Gen (ret) Doug Lute noted. The war in Gaza should reinforce the message of Ukraine about the need to reinvigorate defense production. wapo.st/479jIz5

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U.S. forces have experience in recent decades fighting in Fallujah and Ramadi and supporting local forces fighting Islamic State in Mosul and Raqqa, but they have not faced the kinds of challenges that the IDF is encountering in more built-up urban areas. wapo.st/479jIz5

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Hamas attacked cell towers with drones to blind Israelโ€™s high-tech monitoring systems. Russia has used electronic warfare systems to jam the GPS of Ukraineโ€™s U.S.-made rocket systems. Both examples show other adversaries how to blunt the US military edge. wapo.st/479jIz5

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Gen. Valery Zaluzhny admitted he was wrong to believe that he could stop the Russian onslaught by inflicting heavy casualties on the invaders. So, too, IDF commanders are mistaken if they think inflicting suffering on Palestinian civilians will stop Hamas. wapo.st/479jIz5

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Israel insists that it abides by the laws of war, but such arguments count for little compared with the emotional power of a photo of a dead Palestinian child. Israelโ€™s most effective counter has been to expose the depravity of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. wapo.st/479jIz5

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Hamas leaders appear to not care about the terrible costs inflicted on civiliansโ€”or even on their own fightersโ€”by the war they started Oct. 7. Likewise the Kremlin shows a shocking willingness to not only kill Ukrainian civilians but also its own soldiers. wapo.st/479jIz5

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The wars in both Gaza and Ukraine should remind complacent Western leaders that our adversaries do not share our liberal values and, thus, are much less casualty-conscious than Western militaries are. That gives them a major military advantage. wapo.st/479jIz5

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The wars in Gaza and Ukraine offer an urgent warning to the Pentagon to learn the right lessons from the ongoing conflicts as it prepares its own forces for future wars. As Israel and Ukraine remind us, the price of unreadiness will be paid in blood. wapo.st/479jIz5

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At first glance the wars in Ukraine and Gaza donโ€™t have much in common. Yet as Iโ€™ve been talking with analysts studying both conflicts, I have concluded that they actually reinforce many of the same lessonsโ€”lessons the US military needs to internalize. wapo.st/479jIz5

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Netanyahu has cemented his reputation as Israelโ€™s worst prime minister, Max Boot ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ writes.

โ€œAnd now, by picking a needless and reckless fight with President Biden, Israelโ€™s closet ally, he is only compounding the damage that he is doing to his own country.โ€ wapo.st/3teIgc5

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All the way back in 2019, Netanyahu became Israelโ€™sย longest-servingย prime minister. In the past year, since assuming his nationโ€™s highest office for the third time, he has cemented his reputation as Israelโ€™s worst prime minister. wapo.st/3vaysA6

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Media: Max Boot ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ: 'All the way back in 2019, Benjamin @Netanyahu became โ€™s longest-serving prime minister. In the past year, since assuming his nationโ€™s highest office for the third time, he has cemented his reputation as Israelโ€™s worst prime minister. And now, by picking aโ€ฆ

Media: @MaxBoot: 'All the way back in 2019, Benjamin @Netanyahu became #Israelโ€™s longest-serving prime minister. In the past year, since assuming his nationโ€™s highest office for the third time, he has cemented his reputation as Israelโ€™s worst prime minister. And now, by picking aโ€ฆ
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No wonder nearly half of Palestinians support Hamas: They have seen their hopes of statehood dashed as right-wing Israeli governments continue to expand settlements in the West Bank and to resist making any concessions to the Palestinians. wapo.st/3vaysA6

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If Israel ends the war against Hamas by simply reoccupying Gaza, as now seems likely, it will be giving birth to a new generation of anti-Israel militants. That is what Biden is warning against. There is no realistic alternative to a two-state solution. wapo.st/3vaysA6

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โ€œDuring WWII, Churchill would howl over policy differences with FDR but never in public. Netanyahu is no Churchill,โ€ Robert Satloff told me. โ€œBiden may be the most Zionist president in American history. Netanyahu should be kissing his a--, not kicking it.โ€wapo.st/3vaysA6

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All true, Max Boot ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ. And some Americans have not forgotten how Mr. Netanyahu deliberately humiliated an American president in 2015.
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