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The real significance of the Vietcong’s offensive was the political shock wave it sent through American society — and the Hamas attack might have similar consequences for Israel.

It is tempting to compare Hamas’ latest attack on Israel, launched at the end of the Simchat Torah holiday, to Egypt and Syria’s 1973 attack on the country during Yom Kippur. But it is the 1968 Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War that may prove a more instructive historical parallel.

In late January of 1968, Vietcong guerillas and the army of North Vietnam broke a cease-fire, launching a massive attack against South Vietnamese and United States forces across most of the cities and provinces of South Vietnam.

The parallels between the two offensives run far deeper than them coinciding with national holidays and the military superiority of the side being attacked. Much like the government of South Vietnam in 1968, the current Israeli government presides over a deeply divided population and is plagued by serious evidence of corruption at the highest levels. And much like the U.S. government in 1968, the Israeli government has been trying to convince its population that it can sustain a policy — the over five-decades-long occupation of Palestinian lands — which frustrates another nation’s demand for self-determination.

Just one day into the Hamas offensive, Israel’s former Deputy National Security Adviser Chuck Freilich predicted, “There’s always a short-term rallying around the flag. But once the dust settles we’ll have major political ramifications.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/hamas-attack-might-be-israels-tet-offensive/

Un ancien chef du Mossad: « nos pertes à Ghaza sont considérables »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YV4-hnLBvc

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