Douglas Murray: Wartime Diary
Members of Kibbutz Kfar Aza watch a news broadcast announcing the release of members of their community from Hamas captivity. (Photo by Eyal Warshavsky/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
‘As the helicopters carrying the released hostages landed, traffic stopped. People got out of their cars and broke into song.’
“What is life?” a child asks Oriana Fallaci at the beginning of her great 1969 book Nothing and Amen. As Fallaci wrote, the next morning she flew to the Vietnam War to find out.
I have thought about that question a lot in recent weeks, since arriving in Israel earlier this month to cover the war. I have seen plenty of wars before and they always throw up…
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