"Plonter" (Yiddish for a knot that cannot be easily loosened, an imbroglio) was, as everyone knows, the second name of the first Lebanon war. Anyone with eyes on their head quickly realized that we had rashly and arrogantly entered a quagmire from which we could not easily escape. And when Yitzhak Rabin used the term "plonter" to describe the war, it practically became its official name.

QOSHE - The Gaza War Is Yet Another Self-made, Inescapable Israeli Imbroglio - B. Michael
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The Gaza War Is Yet Another Self-made, Inescapable Israeli Imbroglio

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12.12.2023

"Plonter" (Yiddish for a knot that cannot be easily loosened, an imbroglio) was, as everyone........

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