![]() ![]() ![]() The trauma in Israel today should give pause to those thinking that Israel will simply acquiesce to a short tit for tat. In fact, Hamas itself might have been surprised by the extent of its initial success. The failure of Israel’s intelligence and preparedness is second only to that in 1973.īut this Hamas victory might prove Pyrrhic. Israeli social media and news outlets filled with calls for help from families in southern Israeli towns occupied by Hamas, sheltering in their homes as armed terrorists went door-to-door. ![]() Militants kidnapped dozens of Israelis-apparently including children and the elderly-and captured military personnel. Hamas executed a stunning military surprise, breaching the Israeli border in multiple ways and attacking more than 20 Israeli population centers, as well as military bases. In the hours following Hamas’s large-scale surprise attack on Israel early this morning, Israelis on social media quickly dubbed the day a “second Yom Kippur”-referring to the surprise attack on Israel by Egypt and Syria in 1973-or an “Israeli 9/11.” Not since the 1947–49 Arab-Israeli War had Palestinian or Arab forces captured Israeli villages. ![]()
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