Today marks two years of Israel’s Gaza war. The current conflict is perhaps now close to conclusion, depending on the negotiations in Egypt over President Trump’s peace plan.

It is already the longest war that the Jewish state has fought since its establishment in 1948. It isn’t the bloodiest conflict Israel has been involved in, though it’s getting up there. Six thousand, three hundred Israelis were killed in the 1948 war. Two thousand, six hundred died in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Right now, the current war has taken the lives of just over 1,980 Israelis.

The war and its trajectory have perhaps above all else revealed the very narrow hinterland possessed by the Jewish state, and the apparent shallowness of its alliances

Years ago, back in the 1990s, my friends and I used to ponder o

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