Ten questions for understanding. A week after the violent surprise attack by Hamas terrorists that shocked Israel: an unprecedented rocket launch and house-to-house hostage-taking that entered Israeli territory with truly excessive ease.
To answer the many questions that can be summarized in “What Now?” which serves as the headline, big names from Corriere try their hand at the 7XXL special, which you can find on newsstands and in the digital edition on Saturday, the day after the traditional publication of 7, the Corriere della Sera magazine.
The editorial opening the publication is signed by historian and former director of Corriere Paolo Mieli. Who is looking in the events of recent years for the reasons for the shock of the bloody Saturday less than a week ago? It does this by delving into the history of the state that emerged on May 14, 1948 with the recognition of the USA and the USSR, but with the immediate invasion of its territory by the Arab League, that is, the armies of Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, the Iraq, Lebanon came into being. As if to say that the Arab and Middle Eastern world was immediately against the idea of a Jewish population settling in this area.
And here is the testimony from the territory of the writer Etgar Keret, son of Holocaust survivors, who was born and lives in Israel. He addresses the most dramatic problem: the need for Israelis to continue to survive in their state.
Of the ten questions, two are perhaps the most pressing: Federico Rampini is responsible for answering how profound Iran’s role was in the attack; Lorenzo Cremonesi attempts to reconstruct how and when Hamas extremists took control of Gaza after the decades of Arafat.
But the behavior of the two main actors who are accused of unpreparedness is also surprising: the Israeli 007, one of the most renowned secret services in the world (Guido Olimpio is trying to understand why they were surprised) and Biden’s USA, which surprised them and overlooked the growing tensions between Israel and the Palestinians (US correspondent Viviana Mazza examines the reasons).