In college, this Blogger was invited to a seminar overseen by Hans J. Morgenthau. At the end of the seminar, Mr. Morgenthau engaged this Blogger in a private conversation; he informed this Blogger that he had a unique set of viewpoints; and asked: where did this Blogger get them? This Blogger answered: “  My Father raised me on Classical American Westerns .” Then Mr. Morgenthau informed this Blogger that he was: either well equipped or ill equipped for this modern world. This Blogger recalled that conversation as he watched British television explore, in granular detail, the Israeli Vendetta in Gaza. Israelis are so incensed by the massacre inflicted on their citizens, by the Gaza based, Palestinian terrorist organization, HAMAS, that    they are bantering about using their supposedly nonexistent nuclear bomb on Gaza. “Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was “one of the poss

  In the current, 2023 Israeli-HAMAS War, Gerry Maxey’s Theory of the Case is centered on Israeli Leadership. Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is a misplaced politician; he is a brilliant American politician; but a rank amateur as an Israeli politician, guiding his people to survival on a Jewish island, surrounded by a sea of Arabs. He does not like Arabs; which is fair enough. But, alas, he does not respect Arabs; which means he cannot make    peace with Arabs. Seemingly the HAMAS Murder Raid of October 7, 2023, has alerted both  Israeli analysts and the NEW YORK TIMES to Netanyahu’s fatal flaw. He is more American than Israeli.   THE NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER 2023 “The late Ariel Sharon was in the habit of saying, “we will defend ourselves, by ourselves,…..wrote Nadav Eyal, an Israeli analyst, in the newspaper YEDIOTH AHRONOTH. “These are not the values that Netanyahu has been projecting in the last few days.  He seems to yearn to be the    United States’51 st  state …..” NY TIMES

  This has been a gory week for Mankind, what with  an on-going existential war in Ukraine and a newly minted existential war in the Middle East. And a mournful week for this Blogger; a Russian American, lets call him Gleb, died.  He knew this Blogger from the    old, swashbuckling days; he had driven this Blogger to CHECKPOINT CHARLIE, so that this Blogger could be picked, up by East German tourist guides and escorted out of freedom into Communist dominated East Berlin. He had a long pre-death; during most of it, he lamented the state of America, not the state of the American economy, nor the state of the SAG/AFTRA strike, but the literal state of American thinking. He thought American thinking had devolved into an infantile, delusional paralysis, living out episodes of SESAME STREET, with all the realistic American thinkers driven into premature exile. Gleb was a devout Russian Orthodox, with Sister Elizabeth Romanov as his patron saint. Elizabeth had joined an order of nuns after he

  As this    Blog is being written, Israel is planning a massive excursion into Gaza, in retaliation for the slaughter of Israelis by HAMAS, the Gaza based terror organization. Many Palestinians will die, mostly innocent people.    But the need for Israeli retribution is great; more than that, the need for a Reckoning is greater. With insights honed on the Mafioso streets of old Brooklyn, this Blogger has a fairly decent idea of how to defeat criminal states, run by criminal spirits. First, one should try and separate the population base from the criminal leadership. How does one do that? By offering a deal. The Israelis should offer the Gaza population this promise: that it will not destroy Northern Gaza, if the hostages are released, en toto, and unharmed. Gaza residents in Southern Gaza can flee to Northern Gaza, north of Khan Younis ( see map) and be safe, IF the hostages are freed. South of Khan Younis, Gaza will be turned into Carthage; with salt plowed into the earth so nothing