Haaretz (English) opinion piece, on Gaza, 7 October 2026

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Zvi Bar'el

03:13 PM • October 07 2026 IDT

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face," the boxer Mike Tyson once said. Three years ago, after the epic blow that caused the worst disaster since it was founded, Israel launched the war in Gaza with half-baked goals but an insatiable thirst for revenge.

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About this analysis

Almost all of the text is page furniture from a paywall. Only the headline, a Mike Tyson quote and one sentence of Zvi Bar'el's analysis survive. That sentence says Israel launched its assault on Gaza with half-baked goals and a thirst for revenge, and nothing in what can be read misleads the reader.

Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.

What it gets right

  • “Israel launched the war in Gaza with half-baked goals but an insatiable thirst for revenge”

    Bar'el names Israel as the party that launched the assault on Gaza. He describes its motive bluntly, as revenge, rather than as a security operation with no actor.

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