I wanna hear the News Girl say Dilemma

The war of Israel against Hamas goes on, and a lot of important people in the World keep saying “just stop”, “just stop”, because they say they are too concerned with the Gazans.

Since the beginning, I could not take this people very seriously. Because it all seems like political speech, that is, you don’t really look for solutions, you just erase the part of the story that is not interesting for the image you are trying to create for yourself. That’s how it works.

The question that needs to be asked is “Okay, nobody likes war, but then what?” What should Israel do when hordes of armed men invaded their country, killed, burned, raped, and kidnapped? These men come from Gaza, they are the members and sympathizers of the organization that rules Gaza, that is, Hamas. What should any country do in face of such an obvious declaration of war?

Israel didn’t wake up one morning and decided to go to war. There was this declaration of war from Hamas, in form of a diabolically cruel massacre. Which means, War was there, calling Israel in. Then what to do?

Think, there is a regional power – not some random solitary bandits that just happen to be there in Gaza, but a regional power, that is, they are the ones in power there – again, there is a regional power, right at your border, that started this war against your country, now will your country fight it or just watch it? How can someone just watch a war that was started against them?

What are you giving up, when you give up your right to strike back at someone who is attacking you? You would be giving up all your strength to defend yourself, giving up the defense you built through almost 80 years, that allowed your country to survive, to keep existing, after so many countries and terror groups declared war and attacked. You built strength to defend your family in a dangerous place, now people want you to just throw it away.

Giving up this strength is not a good idea, specially in the Middle East. It would mean you would be trusting your fate to someone else, someone who would come and fix the situation. Who would that be?

The International Community doesn’t even want to admit the questions are hard and painful. They don’t have a different solution for the problem of the power that Terror gained in Middle East, they are acting as if the problem doesn’t even exist. It is easier for their political game to make it look like everything is very simple, the answer is simple, “Just stop the war”.

They take advantage of the fact that most of us, who live in Western Cities, take the absence of war we have here, as the “normal”. War for us means an aberration, if someone is making a war, just “stop”, and everything falls back to “normality”, that is, a peaceful state. But in the Middle East there is not this “peaceful normality” to fall back to. Since Israel was founded, less than a hundred years ago, so many countries started wars against them, and terrorist attacks never seem to end.

Who will come to help them guarantee the peace if the International Community don’t even want to name Terrorism as the bigger problem and source of pain in the Middle East?

With a past and a present so full of threats, Israel needs to fight for their future. There is a bigger power against them: Hamas is actually backed by Iran, who is also behind Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen. There is a bigger plan for the destruction of Israel, and the leaders of the Terror group speak openly about it, and so do the leaders in Iran. Iran, which recently Israel had to prevent from having nuclear bombs.

October 7^th was not one crazy guy that killed one Israeli. It was a big invasion and more than a thousand people died. It was carefully planned, the cruelty, the rapes, were part of the strategy. It was meant to be cruel, they had gear, information, and the kidnapping was also part of plan – there are still kidnapped Israelis being tortured in Gaza, you know. And Hamas and their supporters only had to go back to Gaza because the Israeli Forces fought them back. And they kept launching missiles.

Later, when fighting Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, the Israelis found everything practically ready for what Hezbollah called “Operation Conquer the Galilee”. They would invade Israel from the North and try to do even worse than October 7^th .

If you were told that Israel is this super powerful rich white country and could so easily guarantee a decent level of safety without fighting so much, then just imagine if, during October 7^th, or “Operation Conquer the Galilee”, the Terrorists managed to take a small Israeli city. The Idf fought and sent them back, but imagine if for some reason they were able to take control of one small city or town. They would certainly love that, maybe that was precisely the next step in their terror escalade.

Imagine the horrible choices the Israeli government and the military would be forced to make if that happened, with thousands of their own people under the power of the Terrorists. That would be an unconceivable nightmare, even worse than the nightmare that already happened, and in a certain sense is still happening, for there are so many hostages not yet returned.

I came to see that in these most unfortunate circumstances, Israel needs to fight to end Hamas, to eliminate this source of threat. There is nothing about Hamas that is not Evil, aimed at destruction of Israel, destabilizing of the West, and oppression of their own people. Of course Israel needs to fight with ethics, needs to avoid harm to civilians as much as possible. And they do, warning about future strikes, telling people to evacuate areas, with leaflets, phone calls and social media. And in general, going much slower than they could if they didn’t care. But Hamas is everywhere in Gaza, without uniforms, operating from inside cities, mixed with civilian life as much as they can, precisely to make the cost in terms of suffering in Gaza as high as they can, to manipulate international opinion.

Try to see from Israel’s point of view. They have communities, families, loved ones to protect from a Horror that already showed its face. They built resources to fight back threats, and they can’t throw it away, if they really want to protect what they love. Israel is not God. They can’t invent a way of fighting where you can just defend and totally avoid the risk for civilians on the other side, especially if the leaders on the other side openly praise martyrdom of their people. They can’t magically create a World where people in democracies and people under Terror regimes are all equally safe at the same time.

Yes, it is not beautiful, it does sound like a terrible dilemma. But the World is not proposing a different solution, they prefer to just act as if the dilemma wasn’t there. It is easier for them to just throw all the onus on Israel, so they can go back to their normal.

The UN seems to have forgotten what started this war. Now they are focused on accusing Israel of causing famine, using partial sources from within Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas, and just ignoring all that Israel is showing the World in terms of tenth of thousands of trucks entering with aid, a lot of times even waiting for international organizations to pick up.

Meanwhile, the mainstream press amplifies it, sometimes simply spreading fake news, like showing and old image of a child with a genetic disorder, and which Israel already helped, as if he was a starving child.

The role of the press – and the Internation Community – should be, first of all, admit that there is no neutral informaaltion coming from Gaza. It’s from one side or the other. What they have to do is put both narratives side by side, and then start a work to find who is presenting more evidence, who is being more transparent. And even trust that people in the World are not completely stupid and can come to their own conclusions. But they choose to pretend that one narrative comes from neutral sources, and the other, they literally ignore. The mainstream press is being anything but transparent.

So, with all this bias in the World, where will the cavalry come from, to establish a state of peace, if Israel “just stop”? Is the International Community this cavalry? How could they be, if they’ve been so focused in only see the bad in Israel?

Israel can’t lay down and say “okay, you can attack us as cruelly as you want and we will not strike back with all our fighting resources, because of the losses that will be caused by your lack of care for people’s safety”.

So, Israel has no guarantees that everything will be fine. I think they have no option but fight, ff they want to protect their loved ones. Still, as I said, there is indeed a dilemma. Put in its most horrible form it sounds like this: “Would you kill civilians for the safety of your people”?

But first of all, Israel does not target civilians, there is a clear strategy on the other side, to make it impossible for Israel to fight without loss of Gazan civilian lives, and the danger for Israel is not a danger of maybe losing a bit of safety. It’s a danger of murder, rape, torture, kidnapping, and it already happened. Also a danger of getting to a point where they start losing more and more of the advantage they have in their own territory. So a most accurate formulation of the dilemma would be: “Would you take action to save your people, even if the other side will make sure that this conflict will cause death of their civilians?”

Still, of course, it doesn’t cease to be a dilemma, and a very cruel one. But we need to face this fact: God doesn’t give us this kind of cruel dilemma. Or the Universe. Or anyway, whatever your cosmological view is, this dilemma didn’t “just happen”, “naturally”. There are people of flesh and bones, walking this Earth, who created this dilemma and imposed it on Israel.

What could be the appropriate answer to such a monster? He can slow us, that’s inevitable, but can we let him totally stop us? Can we give him all he wants? We can’t talk about this whole subject, of an army fighting for its people, and people on the other side suffering the tragic consequences of a war, without including this “third character”, the monster who imposed the dilemma.

Give him all he wants can’t be the morally right answer, because who says he will ever stop? What happens with the World if the good side can never strike back against the evil doers, even when Evil very literally declares war? Because that is precisely what the World is trying to impose on Israel’s World. It is too dangerous, too horrible, and morally wrong to give the monster all he wants. There is no reason to believe he will ever stop creating more and worst dilemmas.

It is easier for the rest of the World to forget this “little detail”, this “third character”, at least while it’s not at their door. But Israel has no option but fight. Again, they have the obligation to do it in the most ethical way possible, trying to preserve life as much as they can, but they need to fight this War that called them in.

Defend your loved ones is not evil, is not wrong, and sometimes it’s the best you can do, for your people and for the World, while the World don’t wake up to face the real problems.