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SHABBAT READING Amalek: A Pawn in the Rivalry Between Saul and David’s Legacy: Dr. Gili Kugler, The Torah.com, Mar. 9, 2022 — Soon after their departure from Egypt, the Israelites are attacked at Rephidim by the Amalekites, a semi-nomadic people (Exod 17:8).[1] After the Israelites defeat their attackers,[2] YHWH paradoxically commands Moses to write […]
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Jerry C. Davis WSJ, Jan. 26, 2023 “America was divided then, and it is divided now. This resolution, which is 50 years overdue, acknowledges this stain on American honor.” The Vietnam War ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords on Jan. 27, 1973. More than 50,000 Americans were killed in the war, and […]
Gershom Gorenberg, The VVA Veteran, January/February 2012 “Israel will not be alone unless it decides to go alone.” In other words: Don’t attack; we can’t back you up.” “You will certainly note,” Hal Saunders said, “that we had another problem on the other side of the world.” Saunders spoke in the quiet voice of […]
Dominic Sandbrook UnHerd, Jan. 23, 2023 “… some decided not only that American intervention in Vietnam had been a mistake, but that all interventions abroad must be illegitimate or misguided. American isolationism has a long history, but never has it enjoyed a bigger boost than it did in the early Seventies.” In the course of his troubled presidency, […]
Barton Swain WSJ, Jan. 20, 2023 “… in his view, America won—only in a different way. We stopped communism, which didn’t advance in Indochina any further than it reached in 1975.” When I was a teenager in the 1980s, popular culture had basically one message on the Vietnam War: that it was conceived in American arrogance, […]
Mara Oliva The Conversation, Jan. 9, 2023 “Military and government officials in both the Bush and Obama administrations deliberately misrepresented conditions in Afghanistan to appease an American public opinion suffering from war fatigue.” 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the US withdrawal from Vietnam and the war still casts long shadows over American life. The cost […]
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