‘This is round two’: attacks on Iran win broad support among Israelis

Air raid sirens emptied Israel’s streets on Saturday and filled its bomb shelters as the country braced for waves of Iranian attacks. Individual fear and resignation did not temper broad political and popular support for the country’s second regional war in less than a year.

"We all of us feel that what we started needs to be finished," said Gal Tzairi, a 23-year-old university student sheltering in an underground car park in central Tel Aviv. Paramedics had to dig Tzairi out from the rubble of his home last June, when an Iranian missile strike brought down his apartment building.

"This is round two," said 30-year-old Tom Zimako, who backed "100%" the decision to attack Iran again. The morning attacks immediately halted bitter Israeli political feuding ahead of elections due by October. Opposition leaders across most of the political spectrum united behind Netanyahu: Yair Lapid wrote, "I fully support this operation.

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