JERUSALEM — So many of us Israelis can hardly speak right now at all.

Part of it is the shock. Like 9/11, like Hurricane Sandy and the first COVID lockdown — a sudden, thorough reversal of life coupled with immediate responsibility.

Living in a daze while there is so much to do.

We resist the urge to hide under a blanket. We act, even if it is difficult.

Everybody is a mess. News anchors are a mess. Government officials are a mess.

A high-level diplomat friend texted me Sunday morning: “How are we supposed to do this?”

Just in general. That’s what we’re all feeling.

But as the hours pass, shock gives way to infinite anger.

The rage is directed above all at Hamas — and all those who support, abet, fund, arm, defend or show understanding for them, including those Palestinians in Gaza who support them and those preening self-righteous “pro-Palestinian” Westerners whose antisemitic veil is so thin as to be promiscuous.

Those who prattle on about “genocide” but have no qualms about enabling it under the banner of “resistance.”

What twisted mind considers killing and kidnapping toddlers a legitimate form of “resistance”?

Yet we see so many twisted minds in the West today.

We are also looking for other places to put our anger.

Politically, there is much agitation — for now, muted but certain to break out into the mainstream — about the debacle, the massive intelligence failure, the massive military failure.

Yes, yes. Our leaders failed us. We’ll deal with them in due course.

And then there is the grief.

We are only now starting to see the names, the images, the lives prematurely ended.

Many in their early 20s. But also children, parents, grandparents.

People we know. My son’s best friend and a friend’s best friend’s son.

We are hearing awful stories by the hour. Death is everywhere — 700 dead and still counting.

If it were not for the urgency of battle, we would be drowning in sorrow.

We cannot even properly console those who grieve. There is no time.

Five of my children are now in uniform, three of them suddenly. A sixth is volunteering on an ambulance.

Entire high-tech companies have stopped operations because half the staff has been called up.

The other half can’t really work because school-age kids are at home. Schools are shuttered because there are still terrorists among us looking for a target.

Modern-day Palestinian Einsatzgruppen hunting for children to shoot or kidnap.

If there is evil on this Earth, it is this.

They call it “resistance.”

There are many better words for it, but an important one is “antisemitism.”

Generations of Palestinians have, like so many others around the world, taught their children that Jews are demonic and evil — giving license to kill and maim Jews under the pretense of defending themselves against our global spider-powers.

The Arab world is rife with the most vicious forms of antisemitic conspiracy theories and has been for generations.

It is the true core of the conflict, not the later fabricated “root causes” Westerners speak of.

We Jews have seen this kind of license taken against our bodies before — both in Europe and across the Middle East.

But unlike the Holocaust, unlike the pogroms and the Farhud, today we can respond. We are headed to war.

We have been through many rounds of conflict in Gaza but nothing like this.

I’ve never seen such unity of purpose among Israelis.

Far leftists, who despise the current government, are calling for the full reoccupation of the Gaza Strip. Suddenly there is talk of a unity government.

Judicial reform and its protests, like everything other issue besides the war, have fallen off the table.

Hamas’ unexpected success will be its undoing.

We can destroy this enemy and uproot the evil. We have the force and the will.

There is literally only one thing that can stop us: the fickle politics of the “international order.”

Since Israel’s founding, every military conflict has taken place with foreign governments, especially America’s and Europe’s, holding a platinum stopwatch.

At a certain point — usually just days or weeks into the war — we are told, “That’s quite enough.”

It has nothing to do with military objectives or whether we’ve uprooted the terror.

It’s about what they can handle politically.

After that time, they turn to the UN Security Council and start talking about sanctions. Pressure becomes quite real.

Such premature cessation inevitably sets the stage for further conflict.

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It gives terror organizations, whether Hamas or Hezbollah or Islamic Jihad, the opportunity to regroup, rearm and redouble their efforts to murder civilians.

World leaders need to know this time is different.

If you are our friends, if you are truly disgusted by what you have seen and believe in our right to defend ourselves, you’ll let us get the job done.

Defeating Hamas will take time and patience.

But it must happen, not just because it is right but also because what starts with Jews never ends with Jews.

Hamas glories in its ability to make Jewish children and elderly suffer on camera.

But with every gruesome image, Israeli resolve is further steeled.

This is an enemy of almost unthinkable evil.

Now you have all seen it — and you must not forget what you have seen.

We will bounce back from our shock and horror and defeat Hamas. Stay tuned.

David Hazony is a writer, translator and editor of “Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People” (Wicked Son, 2023). He lives in Jerusalem.