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October 9, 2023

October 7, 2023 and the Israeli Consciousness

“Shock, bewilderment, a slight nausea, a sudden urge to fight back the tears that welled in my eyes.”

It appears that Hamas has chosen the date of its ongoing invasion of Israel to coincide with that of another invasion that also occurred on a holy day and temporarily overwhelmed the Jewish state’s defenses: namely, the Yom Kippur War, which began 50 years ago on October 6. (While that war is still remembered in Egypt for the stunning military success of its early days, it ended with the Syrian army broken, Egyptian forces surrounded, and the IDF simultaneously advancing on Cairo and Damascus.) The Israeli novelist Ruby Namdar describes his reaction to the current war, and the memories it stirred up of 1973:

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October 9, 2023

  1. This Attack on Israel Changes Everything

    There is no modus vivendi with Hamas.

  2. Hamas’s Success, and Its Fatal Miscalculation

    A wounded, weakened Israel is a fiercer Israel.

  3. What Israel Should Do Next

    The era of surgical strikes is over.

  4. October 7, 2023 and the Israeli Consciousness

    “Shock, bewilderment, a slight nausea, a sudden urge to fight back the tears that welled in my eyes.”

  5. Assessing Iran’s Role in Hamas’s Assault

    Will Jerusalem retaliate against Tehran?