Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Day 5 of the war: Israel internalizes the horrors, and knows its survival is at stake

1. A battle for survival: The full extent of the horrors that unfolded on Shabbat for huge numbers of Israelis living near and not so near to the border with Gaza are only now becoming fully clear.

Or maybe we are only now allowing ourselves to fully acknowledge that they actually happened.

And maybe it took US President Biden, watching from afar, to put into words — for Americans, for the world, but, yes, most importantly for us — the scale of the catastrophe and the inhumanity of our enemy.

Horrified but resolute in cataloging what has befallen our nation and its people, he made the awful truth unavoidable: READ MORE