If Israel Can Find Evidence That Iran Had a Role in This Attack, It Would Have a Casus Belli the Arab World Would Understand

Solidarity of opinion within the Jewish state might also enable a compromise in the political disputes that divide the country.

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Rockets are fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip, October 8, 2023. AP/Fatima Shbair

While this attack on Israel was extremely professionally executed and makes a stark contrast with the long era in which the Israeli Defense Forces routinely routed Arab armies, scoring spectacular victories in just a few days, such as in the Six-Day War of 1967, it is a gesture of political weakness by the forces of Islamic extremism.

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