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Al-Aqsa Storm Heralds the Rise of Non-state Special Operations by Craig Whiteside

The shock of Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault continues to reverberate around the world amidst fears it will be the catalyst for a wider regional war. Many observers are comparing it to the 1973 Yom Kippur war, arguing that Israel repeated many of the same mistakes in failing to anticipate the attack. But this was more than an intelligence failure. It was failure of imagination. Israel grew comfortable managing its relationship with Hamas in Gaza, keeping rocket attacks and suicide bombings to a relatively low level for almost a decade. Moreover, as we saw in a visit last month, Israel’s top

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Toot by Rae Rae (babka.social)

I think for managed hosting, WPEngine or Pagely are better than the traditional hosts who have decided to get into managed hosting. Of those two, WPEngine tends to not accommodate things like Python clients and indieweb stuff very well at all, specifically indieauth and micropub, both of which require API endpoints. +