Yom Kippur War

Conceptzia - a word coined by the Agranat Commission of Inquiry into the failures of the Yom Kippur War to describe the groupthink that paralyzed Israel before the war.

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Amnon Rubinstein passed away while Israel grapples with the worst crisis in its history; and craves a new political dawn that will replace a departing era’s surplus of divisive leaders

After the Yom Kippur War, the burning anger at Israel's leadership led to the downfall of Labor's hegemony. After the October 7 massacre, it is reasonable this could happen again.

Jewish history’s ongoing tragedy is that too many hate us; Zionism’s enduring success is that we have a citizens’ army to protect us and a new mentality that will never, ever surrender again.

He is remembered as having warned of an attack before the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, but was ignored by military intelligence.

Israel’s two greatest national traumas were failures of Israeli vigilance and intelligence analysis, abetted by complacency.

Dr. Henry Kissinger was a controversial figure in modern history, but no one can deny his contribution to humanity.

After leaving office in 1977, Kissinger became more outspoken in favor of Israel, publicly declaring in a speech that year: “The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.”

The most profound and fundamental cause of the failures we are reckoning with today is the “concept” of maintaining the occupation as if we can contain its harmful implications.

We can be confident that Israeli society will be dramatically different after October 7. What we cannot know is what change is going to look like.