How October 7th Became the Middle East's Pearl Harbor
Sinwar's attack was meant to ignite a multi-front war on Israel. Instead it unraveled the Axis of Resistance piece by piece — and may yet bring down the Islamic Republic itself.
Simon Whistler • March 3, 2026
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On the big list of historical military miscalculations, there are some that are destined to always come near the top.
Vladimir Putin's decision to only plan for a short war against Ukraine, for example, or Imperial Japan's decision to bomb Pearl Harbor, a decision that dragged the United States into the Second World War, and spoiler alert here, it didn't end well for Japan.
Well, from our historical vantage point of 2026, it now seems like the attacks of October 7, 2023 are fated to join that list.
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