500 days

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Feb 18, 2025 · 1m

The poster reads:

500 days. Get them out of hell.

There must be ways of tracking the mood of a country, its ups and downs, its moments of celebration and its moments of mourning.

Social scientists, I imagine, have their ways of calculating. Perhaps they’re measuring such data even as we speak.

Even those of us who are not social scientists, though, know. We don’t have the data, but we also have no doubt.

Those of us who simply “feel” the country by what’s on TV, what people say on the radio, what fills the OpEd pages of the papers and what’s rampaging through social media, we know—even in a…