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October 26, 2023

A Peace to End All Peace

Fromkin's book is a gripping and informative read about the Middle East.

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (also subtitled Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922) is a 1989 history book written by Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction finalist David Fromkin, which describes the events leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and the drastic changes that took place in the Middle East as a result, which he believed led to a new world war that is still continuing. It has been widely praised. Richard Holbrooke wrote: “Without knowledge of its backstory, no policymaker will get the region right... Of the vast array of books on the region, none is more relevant than Fromkin’s sweeping epic, A Peace to End All Peace.” Wm. Roger Louis reviewed it in The New York Times,[1] judging the book "excellent ... Readers will come away... not only enlightened but challenged." The Times of London described the book as “the truth and nothing but the truth.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Peace_to_End_All_Peace

October 15, 2023

About the tunnels used by Hamas in Gaza

Caveat: Not a military expert and probably something like this is happening just not talked about for secrecy.

But practical.

Search for and find tunnels egresses in Gaza and outside Gaza.

Start from outside Gaza and systematically search using remote sensing and whatever intelligence method works.

One could be very certain that people at the egresses and within the tunnels are Hamas terrorist.

Also stores of munitions and other items of the terrorist trade are likely in or near the egresses to the tunnels.

The tunnels may also be a means to sneak undercover IDF forces behind enemy lines, particularly tunnels that are not in current use.

The Gaza cleanup operation should destroy the system of tunnels so not available for future terrorism.

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