![]() ![]() Iran, too, appears to have been eager to take advantage of the instability. ![]() Some have speculated that Hamas sought to exploit the breach to jettison diplomatic efforts between Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the US that might have resulted in Riyadh extending diplomatic recognition to Israel. Security experts have said Israel quietly let down its guard amid rising unrest, political infighting, and pushback against Netanyahu's government. Tensions have been exacerbated between Israelis and Palestinians this year as the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has supported an increase in the number of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Hamas leaders have claimed their incursion was a response to Israeli escalations against Palestinians, including the "desecration" of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. "I can imagine," she told Insider by phone from her home, about 20 minutes south of Tel Aviv, that this attack on Israel is very much "that same nightmare, that same fear - but 10 times worse." Jessica Cohen, a 25-year-old American from Long Island, New York, who has called Israel home for the past seven years, was just 3 years old on 9/11 but still remembers how "distraught" her family was that day. Several other posts on the social networking site also likened the attacks to 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attack on an American naval base in Hawaii that drew the United States into the Second World War in 1941. Like 9/11, which changed the United States and its identity for years to come - remaking its national security and intelligence-gathering apparatus, triggering a protracted military campaign in the Middle East, and fueling a sense of patriotism unseen in years - Aisenberg and others agreed that the events of the past 48 hours would also fundamentally reshape Israel from cultural, security, and political perspectives. Multiple Israelis spoke to Insider throughout the weekend about what they'd witnessed and the attack's impact, which they say will long burn in their nation's collective memory. Within Israel's borders, where the clash has already claimed more than 700 lives, people have begun drawing parallels between the onslaught and the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. "It's a very small country and everybody knows someone who is either in the military or someone who lives in one of those communities that were hijacked by terrorists," Aisenberg said. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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