Gaza is as much Tet 1968 as 9/11

What Hamas has done in the last two days was far more extreme than anything it had done before. 

This was unmistakably a move designed to provoke a response, and ideally an overreaction. 

Within Israel, the accurate historical comparison might be with the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in 1968. 

That was ultimately a military victory for the US — just as Israel is prohibitively likely to assert its dominance before this conflict is over. 

But by catching the Americans cold, and demonstrating that they didn’t have the control over South Vietnam that they claimed, it irrevocably shook politics back home.

John Authers Bloomberg 9 oktober 2023

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-09/gaza-attack-won-t-disrupt-oil-markets-unless-israel-strikes-iran

Själv var jag 27 år 1968. 

Jag blev mycket förvånad över vad som då hände.

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