With a ground invasion into Gaza imminent, Israelis are grappling with a total breakdown of trust and a collapse of everything they believed in and relied on.
| On the ninth day after Hamas overran more than 20 Israeli pastoral communities and army bases, killing more than 1300 people and taking 150 hostages back to Gaza, Israel was a country on edge.
“We have woken to a terrible sobriety about whose hands we put our fate in,” said Dorit Rabinyan, an author in Tel Aviv, Israel. “All the time you said to yourself, ‘I am paying half of what I earn in taxes, but it is for security, national security, at least that’.” In a country of 9 million people, where most Jews serve in the army, everybody appears to know somebody who was caught up in the Hamas massacre or who is now on the front line. “Your hands tremble each time you answer your phone,” Rabinyan said, for fear of bad tidings.The military high command has apologised for failing in its mission. Along with the so-called people’s army of conscripts, the military has mobilised 360,000 reservists, some of whom have continued to volunteer into their 50s.
“The Israelis are built to function under pressure, though we never had a situation like this one,” said Tzadok Isuk, 74, manager of a supermarket in Jerusalem where people have been panic-buying in recent days. Some shelves were empty because so many delivery drivers have been drafted into military service.Isuk, who has a son in the security forces and two nephews along the Gaza border, said he had fought in all the country’s wars since 1967 but could hardly absorb what had happened.
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