After travelling across Israel and the West Bank, it is crystal clear to me that Israel is in real peril – more so than at any time since its war of independence in 1948.
People warned me before I came to Tel Aviv a few days ago that the Israel of October 7 is an Israel that I’ve never been to before. They were right. It is a place in which Israelis have never lived before, a nation that Israeli generals have never had to protect before, an ally that America has never had to defend before — certainly not with the urgency and resolve that would lead a US president to fly over and buck up the whole nation.
Israelis take cover as a siren warns of incoming rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, during the funeral of the Israeli man Sagiv Ben Svi, killed by Hamas militants while attending a music festival. AP
