No Delusions, No Despair

No Delusions, No Despair

Lessons learned from the war on the Jews

We now know that Heraclitus was right: “Most men are bad, few good.”

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Benjamin Kerstein
Oct 13, 2025
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With the hostages at last home and an interminable war apparently over, or at least mostly over, it’s worth asking what we’ve learned over the last two hellish years.

The first thing, perhaps, is to now allow ourselves some joy. Whether our enemies like it or not, we won this war, and the victory appears to be all but complete.

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