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Three reasons Israel is in real danger

Three reasons Israel is in real danger

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.

Thomas FriedmanContributor

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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

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