Mick Hartley

What To Do When Facing Those Willing to Gouge Out Their Own Eye Just to Gouge Out Two of Ours?
(Reflections on the Second Intifada and the Present Moment)

Before the massacre of October 7, I remembered the years of the Second Intifada (the one many now wish to see globalized) as…

— Dr. Einat Wilf (@EinatWilf) August 4, 2025

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"Today we ask again: is there any military — or any other — solution to a worldview that prefers self‑destruction, in one form or another, so long as Israel suffers more? I do not yet know exactly how we will overcome this current assault — especially when our leadership is, this time, so dismally cowardly and poor. But I am certain Israelis will find a way. Because at its core, this is a struggle between two ideologies: Palestinism, which will not rest until not a single sovereign Jew remains between the river and the sea; and Zionism, which — despite the ferocity of every assault against it — remains committed to nothing more, and nothing less, than the right of the Jewish people to live as a free nation, in at least part of their historic homeland."