Uncle Mu's international commentary analyzes the situation inside Israel.
On October 22, A Times of Israel reporter interviewed a number of nongovernmental organizations and volunteers in the country and found that in the panic that followed the Hamas attack, Israeli society quickly organized to fill some of the government's inadequacies as Netanyahu's government grappled with the war.
In the words of journalists, 15,000 volunteers are running the country.
This figure is the statistics of some voluntary agencies in the country, and more and more volunteers will serve society in the future. The implication is clear: ordinary Israelis are saving themselves or helping each other to fulfill their basic life aspirations and expectations for the future.
Uncle Mu noticed that this transformation was indeed unusual-
You must know that in the months before Hamas attacked Israel, the country's society was extremely divided, even in the more than 70 years since the establishment of the independent state of Israel - reservists and pilots have said not to serve Netanyahu's government, every week in front of Netanyahu's prime minister's palace and in the squares of large cities there are 100,000 protests against judicial reform, Israel's right-wing religious conservatives accuse the left and protesters of treason... The whole society was torn apart by the government's policies, which led to turmoil among the Israeli people, which in turn gave Hamas an opportunity.
The situation today is a great reconciliation between the two factions within Israel -
Volunteers and NGOs from all walks of life are united, and Hamas may not have imagined that an attack would deepen understanding among Israel's factions, but instead demonstrate the vitality of this society.
Over the weekend, for example, Israeli journalists entered the Tel Aviv conference center serving victims of the violence and received news that volunteers in their teens and 70s worked together to find shelter for nearly 8,000 displaced families over the past few days, distributed 120,000 donated food and 200 packages of medical supplies, transported 8,000 civilians and soldiers, and even rescued 120 pets.
In one room, almost every truck and bus company is coordinated to voluntarily transport civilian needs throughout the country, and the voluntary action of private cars is coordinated in another room.
Meanwhile, volunteers have created a space where about 2,000 volunteers from the high-tech sector can use their skills to identify missing and kidnapped Israelis, with more than 200 now known to have been identified.
In a huge underground parking lot, hundreds of volunteers are unloading donated clothes and equipment, unpacking and sorting, and repacking it into boxes for transport across Israel.
Even refugees from Africa have joined Israel's national voluntary action.
After all, Hamas's attacks on Israel did not just target Jews, but killed and kidnapped civilians in dozens of countries around the world. For example, Eritrean refugees have become volunteers who are providing food to everyone in need, which is cooked at home by women from Eritrean communities. Every day, about 150 to 170 of these volunteers come from different areas to help.
Journalists from ultra-Orthodox media have refused to communicate with left-wing secular Jews for months, but they recently interviewed anti-Netanyahu tech volunteers and wrote: If two weeks ago you said we would sit together, I would have said wake up from your dreams.
Today, people from the left and right, secular and religious, come together to volunteer for Israelis in need. They were quoted as saying, "After nine months of hatred, we understand that we are brothers. ”
In addition, ultra-Orthodox Jews are changing. Most of them didn't work, but after the attack, many began volunteering.
An Israeli military spokesman claims that more than 2,000 requests have been received in recent days from ultra-Orthodox Jews to be selected by the military to be recruited as volunteers and undergo basic training.
As can be seen from the above examples, Hamas attacks have no chance of crushing Israel and the Jews, a society that does not need to be mobilized for war at all, everyone is moving, and is rapidly repairing its own internal problems according to rules beyond the past, which is certainly beneficial to Israel's future.
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