Jim Davila at PaleoJudaica points to two interesting opinion pieces written in Arutz Sheva and in Ynet regarding the current situation in Israel. The Israeli government has made some blundering mistakes in the past few years, not the least of which is the mishandling of the war with Hizb'allah. The author of the two articles is Elyakim Haetzni, a lawyer and a former Kenesset member. I think Haetzni makes very good connections to history in these articles—connections that most people are unknowledgeable about because of a general lack of desire to study the past. The old saying is really true: we are doomed to repeat our failures if we are unwilling to look them in the face and change our actions.

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