Edwin Luttwak's cruelty

American strategist and historian Edward Luttwak once wrote an excellent article that I strongly agreed with about the utter unimportance of the Middle East, arguing that the West should leave it alone.

Since October 7, 2023 he has decided it is very important and he wins the medal for unpleasantness (and lack of patriotism) with his posts on X mocking American chefs delivering aid who were killed by the Israelis.

A celebrity chef seeking more celebrity sends amateurs into a very active war zone to deliver trivial quantities of food as a publicity stunt while hundreds of truckloads are arriving unreported. Unaccountably, the IDF failed to stop fighting its war in homage to the great chef.


When I made cruel fun of the celebrity chef humanitarians who died in delivering trivial amounts of food in Gaza while hundreds of heavy trucks enter each day, I did not know where these humanitarians stayed before venturing south : the Norman Hotel in Tel Aviv : $800 /basic room

Israel said at the time that the killings were an accident but now we have the commander who ordered the killings saying he is not sorry about it - the aid workers had links with Hamas and is "not really an organisation you can say is innocent."