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Brettbaker's avatar

Minor quibble, Eisenhower was President in 1956.

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Ethan D. Chorin's avatar

Yikes! You’re absolutely right of course, thanks for catching that!

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Michael Brill's avatar

You probably read this Ethan, but following up on the October 2023 WSJ article you linked to, the paper just last month published a piece based on captured Hamas documents, which detailed that preventing Saudi-Israeli normalization was a primary objective.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-wanted-to-torpedo-israel-saudi-deal-with-oct-7-attacks-documents-reveal-a70ec560?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAguKs8v1TLeZi9Zop2UHR43yycI-C5EsQgD_TnPENo2kazVpysyb6BhvINWeTI%3D&gaa_ts=683c6356&gaa_sig=nSDFpaI3z9CWHefJfEsWNWDAcF_BC2kHNoQrNV8RWgmNTx20zD2wvuBlmqAWFbwRCFj4bnMQ3ed9WZhoPkg6bw%3D%3D

The WSJ editors have agreed to share their Assad regime documents with me. I recently asked if they would be willing to include the Hamas ones as well. If they do, I'll pass them along to you.

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Ethan D. Chorin's avatar

Hi Michael - thanks much for this … I hadn’t seen this one… would be fascinating to see some of those additional sources

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