"What I do now as a commander is to make sure that the soldiers don't kill themselves."

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Jan 12, 2026 · 2m

Someone wrote me from the States yesterday and asked me, “What’s the mood?”

Truth is, there is no mood. Gaza might erupt as Trump pushes to Phase II, but then again, he might not, and Gaza might not.

The IDF is insisting that Hezbollah never really disarmed, and that if the Lebanese Army won’t do it, we will. But we might not.

The revolution in Iran is heating up, Trump is saber rattling (and after Venezuela, that might not be meaningless), but Iran has said that it will respond to any US military action with a strike against us. Still, I haven’t heard anyone here express a lot of worry. The…