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2025-06-17 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

'Little Lightning': Why Israel's 'Blitzkrieg' Didn't Go According to Plan

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Posted by badanov 2025-06-17 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [305 views ] Top
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#1 "No plan survives the first contact with the enemy."

~ Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke

Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-17 04:51|| 2025-06-17 04:51|| Front Page Top

#2 The sooner we get involved the better.
Get in there, Trump!
Our ally is in need, don't abandon them like you did to the Europeans.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-06-17 11:47|| 2025-06-17 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 It will have better regional optics if Israel does this alone. Shalom.

Posted by mossomo 2025-06-17 12:47|| 2025-06-17 12:47|| Front Page Top

#4 It will have better regional optics if Israel does this alone.

Agreed, mossomo. A strong statement to thr region and the world that Israel can handle these little local flare-ups without the Big Guy fighting her battles, just as she always does.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-06-17 21:07|| 2025-06-17 21:07|| Front Page Top

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