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Israel’s Independence War of 1948, unbeknownst to many, took close to 10 months. The war against Hamas, which has been dubbed Israel’s Second War of Independence, is now in its third month. Most military analysts believe it will take at least three more months to do the job. Israel did not start the war of 1948 and it did not start the war of 2023.

Sometimes a country has to hit rock bottom before it wakes up. I believe that is the case with America. There is hope America can be fixed. The recent resignations of President Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania on December 9 and President Claudine Gay of Harvard on January 2 is a strong indication that America is in a state of transformation.

The October 7 massacre of innocent Jews has shaken the world. The depth and breadth of the killing, rape, torture, and mutilation is unparalleled in the history of mankind, according to archeologists who have made it their life’s work to study such things.

If Mazi Melesa Pilip gets elected on Tuesday, February 13, in a special election to fill the George Santos vacancy, she will achieve many firsts. She will be the first Black Jew ever to be elected to Congress. She will be the first American-Israeli woman ever to be elected to Congress. She will be the first Black of Ethiopian extraction to be elected to Congress. If elected, she will be the only Black Republican woman in Congress. There are presently five Black Republican men in both houses: Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida, Burgess Owens of Utah, Wesley Hunt of Texas, and John James of Michigan.

Israel is leading the fight against barbarism, terrorism, and evil. Israel is in its own existential battle, but it is exposing the fault lines and fissures that face society today.

MIT has changed a lot since the days when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended and received degrees in architecture and business and nearly a third in political science. He would have gotten that last degree had it not been for the fact that his brother Yoni was killed in the Entebbe raid in 1976. Prime Minister Netanyahu was called into action by Prime Minister Begin. He was so brilliant that only a handful of individuals accomplished what he did at MIT in the four years he spent there - and none had to take a hiatus for 40 days to fight in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 the way he did.