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“Israel’s strike on Hamas’s political leadership in Qatar’s capital, aimed at forcing an end to the Gaza war, looks like a rare Israeli tactical mistake.”

– David Ignatius, “Doha attack narrows Israel’s options in Gaza war,” Washington Post, September 10, 2025,

With this singular sentence, the Post’s David Ignatius has demonstrated once again that he is unaware or prefers to ignore the numerous strategic and tactical mistakes that Israel has committed over the past eight decades since gaining independence. Israel has pursued numerous confrontations in this period, and its decision-making has produced a significant number of strategic and tactical mistakes.

The Suez War in 1956. Israel never should have been a secret partner in the Franco-British colonial war to depose Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and regain control of the Suez Canal. Israel’s participation convinced many Arab leaders that Israel was nothing more than an extension of European colonial power in the Middle East. Heavy political pressure from the United States and the Soviet Union led to the humiliating withdrawal of the British-French-Israeli forces from Egypt. British Prime Minister Anthony Eden had to resign, and the crisis made it more difficult for the international community to deal with the Soviet invasion of Hungary at the same time.

The Six-Day War........

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