@BenRossTransit I think we’ve seen 75 years of reliance on aggressive deterrence failing to achieve stability or security, and brutalizing two cultures. we don’t know the counterfactuals, sure. but it seems reasonable to wonder whether there really has been no alternative that could have enabled survival less miserably. going forward, i’m kind of done with making apologies for Israel’s strategic habits, and I think the vast majority of diaspora Jews younger than my 53 are as well.