…I suggest that it should be Jake Wallis Simons’ article for London’s Telegraph, titled, “The spectacular Qatar strike signals a new era for Israel“.
Here is how it starts:
Golda Meir, Israel’s prime minister during the Yom Kippur War, had a particular way with words. “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image,” she said in the late Sixties.
That sentiment, expressed with characteristic dryness, is even more relevant today than it was then.
October 7, 2023, fell almost exactly 50 years since Meir’s defining conflict. After almost two years of war, both in Gaza and in the realm of public opinion, her message of five decades ago is coming to define the new Israel.
If we are to be hated, at least let us live. If we cannot be loved, then we must be feared. That, then, is the message of the 10 Israeli bombs that were dropped in the heart of Qatari power today. If you are bent on killing Jews, nowhere is safe.
Details are still emerging, but at the time of writing, Israel is optimistic that the princes of Hamas, who have enjoyed lives of luxury in Doha while their people suffer in Gaza, are sleeping with the virgins today.
There is much, much more. Do yourself a favor and read every word.
