Policy-makers and public opinion-molders, who sacrifice the lessons of the past on the altar of oversimplification and wishful-thinking, are doomed to repeat past mistakes and suffer their dire consequences.
Past experience tends to repeat itself, creating the most glittering writing on the wall. However, too often it is overlooked by Western policy-makers, who frequently sacrifice long-term interests, strategic complexity and reality-based hope on the altar of short-term convenience, oversimplification and wishful-thinking.
The November 29, 1947 Partition Plan produced a series of long-term geo-strategic lessons--relevant to the 2017 national security of Israel and the US--which have been largely ignored, although they have recurred and have been reaffirmed, systematically, throughout the last 70 years.