Five weeks in, Israel and Israelis have undergone a profound change. Where we’re headed is not clear. But what is certain is that we’re not going back. Daniel Gordis

Posted By on November 13th, 2023

https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/five-weeks-in-israel-and-israelis?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=8t06w&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

EXCERPT:

  • What moved me—and deeply so—was the devotion of these young soldiers to their nation and their place in history, and their claim, without bravado, that of course they’re willing to die in this war. They’re made of something different.

Aside from that main item, a few small things ….

  • Holocaust imagery is now everywhere. The cartoon below, from the Shabbat edition of Makor Rishon, is brilliant. As Shabbat entered, Israel had surrounded Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, under which Hamas has built its command center and connections to the hundreds of kilometers of tunnels. The way the tunnels are portrayed in the cartoon captures much of how Israelis see the battle we’ve waging. Keep this in mind: in WWII, approximately 350K Americans were killed. British losses were in the same ballpark. But 4.2M Germans will killed. No one spoke about proportionality in terms of numbers back then—they spoke about winning. To Israelis, this conflict is a replay, which is why the Holocaust imagery is so widespread.
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