Is the Endgame for the Gaza War Nearing?
Is the Endgame for the Gaza War Nearing?
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BENJAMIN PARKER: Is the Endgame for the Gaza War in Sight?
WEEKS BEFORE THE OCTOBER 7, 2023 terrorist attack that resulted in more than 1,000 dead Israelis and some 250 people taken hostage, Hamas’s secret police, the General Security Service, gave a slideshow briefing to Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and one of the masterminds of the attack. The slide deck, a presentation summarizing the recent activities of the GSS, was discovered in Gaza by the Israeli military, which passed a copy of it on to the New York Times. The upshot is that the GSS operates a lot like the Stasi, the old East German secret police, with a network of informers spying on everybody and a well-developed system of intimidation to keep people in line and quash dissent.
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DALIBOR ROHAC: It Could Happen Here Too
SLOVAKIA HAS A POPULATION OF JUST 5.6 million, and it feels even smaller—like a provincial town where everyone knows each other. Political assassinations seemed outside of the realm of possibilities in a quintessentially parochial country—at least until Wednesday, when someone shot Slovakia’s pugilistic, leftist-populist, pro-Russian prime minister, Robert Fico. While he seems likely to survive his multiple injuries, the damage to the collective psyche, political culture, and institutions may be permanent.
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