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Can Israel keep the West on side?

25 November 2023

9:00 AM

25 November 2023

9:00 AM

Jerusalem

On 7 October, Israeli security officials were already questioning how long they would be allowed to fight in Gaza. As the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) hurriedly mobilised more than 300,000 reservists, one official told me that ‘destroying Hamas depends on the length of our window of legitimacy’.

Last week, I was on an embed with an IDF unit in Gaza City.

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