Sublime

THOUGH ISRAEL HAD PROVEN that it could make peace with nations willing to accept its existence and take on those who planned its destruction, the Jewish state’s new challenge was not standing armies, but terrorism—most notably the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

The renewed search for meaning also stemmed from Israelis’ realization that peace was not going to come any time soon. After the devastation of the Yom Kippur War and the collapse of the conceptzia, Yehoram Gaon—one of Israel’s most popular singers—came out with a song the refrain of which was “I promise you, my little girl, that this will be the l

Jerusalem, with a Jewish population of 100,000, was to be internationalized but cut off from the Jewish areas.

The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.

AS THE ISRAELIS SHIFTED their strategy, though, so, too did their enemies. The Arab infiltrations morphed from attacks by individual infiltrators to incursions by armed and well-trained squads of fedayeen who were supported and equipped by their host governments, particularly the Egyptian military.