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June Israel vs. October Israel

Summarizing Jordan Chandler Hirsch in Tablet · Published Monday, October 6, 2025
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JL;DR SUMMARY The article by Jordan Chandler Hirsch explores the dichotomy within Israel's historical strategy by contrasting 'June Israel' with 'October Israel.' A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Hamas  Yom Kippur War  Six Day War  Middle East  Iran  Military Strategy  Geopolitics  Strategic Analysis  Osirak Raid 

Places mentioned

Southern District, Israel
"On June 7, 1981, a squadron of F-15s and F-16s took off from Israels Negev desert."
Jordan
"Flying low over Jordanian and Saudi airspace to avoid radar detectionso low, in fact, that Jordans King Hussein reportedly spotted their markings from his yacht in the Red Seathey snaked into Iraq and swooped down on their target."
Saudi Arabia
"Flying low over Jordanian and Saudi airspace to avoid radar detectionso low, in fact, that Jordans King Hussein reportedly spotted their markings from his yacht in the Red Seathey snaked into Iraq and swooped down on their target."
Iraq
"Flying low over Jordanian and Saudi airspace to avoid radar detectionso low, in fact, that Jordans King Hussein reportedly spotted their markings from his yacht in the Red Seathey snaked into Iraq and swooped down on their target."
Ramallah, Ramallah and al-Bireh, Palestinian Territories
"two Israeli reserve soldiers, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, took a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah, home of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"A Palestinian, Aziz Salhaeliminated by the IDF in Gaza 24 years laterappeared at the window, waving his blood-soaked hands in ecstasy before an undulating crowd."
Egypt
"The June current flows from 1967, when Israel eliminated the Egyptian air force in three hours, transforming a besieged coastal statelet into a regional power."
Syria
"When Egyptian forces massed at the Suez Canal and Syrian armor concentrated below the Golan, Israel gathered many indicators of an impending attack."
Lebanon
"Israel rendered it irrelevant by destroying the program entirely. June Israel builds regional influence not by trying to manage the existing order but by changing it."
Iran
"Twice as long as the Six-Day War and perhaps twice as consequential, the operation combined cyber warfare, kinetic strikes, and covert activity to achieve what two decades of sanctions, shadow warfare, and negotiations had failed to accomplish: the systematic destruction of Irans nuclear infrastructure."
United States
"As Israel confronted this seemingly imminent doom, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson explicitly urged it not to fire the first shot, warning that if Jerusalem acted unilaterally, it would be alone."

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