Closed Dossier: The Wrong Geography

Hamas is in Gaza. Hamas is also in Manchester. The institutional class is still sized to the first.

Three Israelis knifed in Nicosia, a bomb lab near Governor's Beach, a synagogue stairwell set alight in Golders Green, an Iraqi militia commander charged in Manhattan with a plot whose target category the federal indictment names as "Americans and Jews." The degradation school has the breakage right — Syria gone, the Supreme Leader dead, the proxy empire cracked — but it has not caught up to what got rebuilt, and what got rebuilt is aimed at the body the doctrine has always recognized, wherever a Jew happens to be standing. Hamas is in Gaza. Hamas is also in Manchester, and the institutional response is still sized to the first.

Hamas is in Gaza. Hamas is also in Manchester.

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