Knowing what we know now, if the international community had the opportunity to prevent another October 7 from materializing, would it? The answer seems to be no.
In the lead-up to the Hamas attacks that sparked the current war, the Iranian proxy governing Gaza was raking in donor money to build an entire second Gaza underground solely for the purpose of hiding Hamas terrorists, weapons, supplies, and innocent hostages. At the same time, it’s becoming clearer that Egypt simply abdicated its earlier commitment to at least slowing the smuggling of weapons and other dangerous items between its own territory and the Strip. For years, meanwhile, the Western world has been easing its own sanctions regimes against Iran over its illicit nuclear-weapons program, which has freed up lots of extra cash with which to supply its proxy armies. And NGOs and United Nations agencies either turned a blind eye to Hamas’s coopting and militarization of humanitarian aid and medical institutions or joined the party.
In other words, mistakes were made by plenty of parties to the conflict. Yet the New York Times paints a picture of a world actively making those same mistakes again in the West Bank. Sunday’s series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm was titled “No Lessons Learned.” That would be an appropriate title for…
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