It is an attack out of nowhere, at dawn on Shabbat: from the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Hamas has launched a widespread attack that has shocked Israel. In the early hours there were many dead and injured, as well as reports of hostage-taking. So at the end of the Feast of Tabernacles the country is lurching into a new war that touches on an old trauma – the surprise attack in the Yom Kippur War exactly 50 years ago.
An attack that touches on an old trauma – politics
