Midnight, CET, Friday 13th to Saturday.

After the lethal Israeli attack on Iranian miltary personnel, engineers and nuclear development sites, killing about 80 people, prime minister Netanyahou has adressed the Iranian People and asked them to stand up against their government and clerical leaders.

Israel’s leaders, both political and military, are making the mistake of the Western Allied Forces over again: is it not a blind tactics, to assume you can “bomb” the people of the adversary’s regime “into your camp”? Bombing Hamburg (killing 33.000 civilians in two days, according to Anthony Beevor) and Dresden, has it brought one German city, one German man or woman closer to Churchill’s and Roosevelt’s side? Who was going to be taken to the camp of general Dwight Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery?

A people that gets bombarded, seems to me prone to rally around the government and the Army.

Qui vivra, verra… We will see things happen in nowadays reality soon.

— But really… How is it possible that Israeli General Staff does not take into account this historic lesson?

I see one possible reason: military & political hubris.

This “strategy” seems to me rather despicable.

Image: Dresden, Germany in 1957, Flickr commons