“Just 50 years ago there was an unexpected attack by the Israeli apparatus, but this attack is worse than the Yom Kippur War.” Gad Lerner is responding to questions about the attack that Hamas has carried out and is still carrying out against Israel: over 300 dead and 1,500 wounded among Israeli civilians. “I cannot remember a day in Israel’s history when so many civilians died and so many were injured. This feeling of humiliation of the security apparatus and the terrible feeling of vulnerability of those who were attacked on Israeli territory. “In the Kippur War, two armies faced each other, here it is different,” says Lerner to With Other Words on La7.
“As someone who loves Israel and who has a large part of his family there, I say that a great illusion is coming to an end: for 56 years Israel has occupied territories where millions of Palestinians live and has the illusion that it can do so .” to protect a domestic democracy that is today insecure and torn, but at the same time denies its neighbor’s right to self-determination. This story has taken many years, but it is fragile and explosive,” he adds.