Today in History

1941 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.

Is it me, or does this sound strangely familiar? Yeah, I know we haven’t “combined” them, yet, but it’s on the wind.

1949 - Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.

1983 - The Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon. Lebanon invasion , 1982.

Oh, the times, they be a’changin. Another “insert number of days here” war? Maybe another Arab-Israeli war? I would prefer another crusade, myself. Maybe “The Arab-Everyone War.”