Zeev Maoz is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He is the former head of the Graduate School of Government and Policy and of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, as well as the former academic director of the M.A. Program at the Israeli Defense Forces' National Defense College.

I hope that everybody read this sentence carefully

None, with the possible exception of the 1948 War of Independence, were
what Israelis call "wars of necessity." They were all wars of
choice—or, worse, folly.

“There's none so blind as they that won't see” ... Jonathan Swift quotes (Irish Author and Satirist of prose, 1667-1745)

“We are either burned out or polarized, ... Most people have made up their minds about what they think about the war (in Iraq) and other key issues. What you are seeing is preaching to the converted....” ... Tom Taylor quotes