While Israel is in shock, the government and army are trying to get back on the offensive. Prime Minister Netanyahu is integrating the opposition into an emergency government and increasing attacks on Gaza.
Everyone tries to put the shock into words, from the people on the street to the heights of power. They are terrible words that are meant to describe one’s own suffering and one’s own losses. We have to talk about “massacres”, about a “pogrom”, also about the “Holocaust” and the old traumas. At the same time, the blood is boiling, the anger at the “barbarians” and the “predators” is looking for an outlet. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Hamas “worse than IS.” Defense Minister Joav Gallant threatens to “wipe them off the face of the earth.”