1/ Israel is bracing for a hit from at least three directions - Iran, Lebanon and Yemen. I don't know how to describe the atmosphere here. It is most certainly not galvanized or celebratory. No one thinks any good will come from the multiple assassinations we carried out. --->
2/ Perhaps it is best described as world-weary. I think most Israelis feel that nothing we could have done would have averted this. Israelis are not rallying around the flag. There is no joy in mudville. There is grimness, cynicism, a heady brew of victimhood and nihilism. --->
3/ This may be the most horrible thing about Israel at the moment. Our very existence is a schism. We do as we please. We seem genuinely surprised at the consequences of our actions. We are resigned to our fate. We destroy reality itself to pospone our own destruction. --->
4/ Nothing we do seems to hold its shape. Nothing has purpose and nothing is followed through. "For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again", said the wise woman of Tekoah. We are nothing, like the death we unleash. --->
5/ We seem torn, full of tossings and turnings, vigorous in our murderousness. We are not. We are torpid. Everything is happening but nothing is happening. We have cast ourselves out into the outer darkness. We are riveted bybthe gnashing of teeth.
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