Try No Terror

 I was hearing in my mind academic voices saying things like “You pro-Israel people are denying the Historic Processes of Oppression and their endurance, you deny that, if not fought back somehow, these things persist in time, because of the System.”

Then I realized: they are the ones who are saying that a people that has been persecuted through centuries until 6 million were finally thrown into gas chambers, became the contrary in last than one hundred years. They seem to be saying that those “Historic Structures of Oppression” are very easily changed very quickly, right?

But wait, aren’t the Muslin Arabs historically oppressed? Where? Let’s take Palestine then, for instance. When they were historically oppressed there? In the centuries they lived under the caliphs or the five hundred years they lived under the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, or the 28 years under Britain?

It was Muslins living under the rule of Muslins.

Unless you consider the Sultans part of the oppressed. And the sheiks. But don’t you realize you will be calling men who smoke fancy cigars and have collections of luxury cars, and rivers of petroleum, an oppressed group? Don’t you see how crazy this is?

This is the story of a people who were outcast and persecuted everywhere, and another people who, if oppressed, were being oppressed by their own leaders. Then finally the Ottoman Empire was over, and less than one percent of the Middle East was given to the Jews after the genocide they suffered. That less than one percent was in their Holy Land, the place they prayed to return to, generation after generation.

In that map redefinition, Jews had to flee Arab countries in a hurry not to be killed, Jews had to leave Europe, some after their family had just been exterminated, and a group of Arabs had to flee the part of Palestine that was given to the Jews. The number of displaced Jews in the Middle East is at least as big as the Arabs.

A lot of sad aspects to it, but still a deal that was fair enough, and the Jews were right to accept. They were right to not step back when the Arabs said “no, we want to rule one hundred percent of the Middle East, not ninety-nine and something”. Those Jews didn’t want to be forever without a land of their own, and they had very good reasons for that. In their tradition, and in their past and recent History.

They then had to fight for it, because Arab countries attacked, seven nations against one, and the Jews miraculously won. And they were attacked again, and again. After some time, the modus operandi of their enemies was not so much open war anymore, but the funding of Terror Groups, so these groups can attack and Israel supposedly can’t fight back, because these group “are not” the countries, even when they rule a region like Gaza or a piece of Lebanon.

Of course some people think, why armies? Why soldiers? Why guns? I wish things were so simple that anytime you “spoke with someone with open heart” you could completely avoid violence. But if that was the case, we wouldn’t have so much violence all over the World. All over the World countries need police, countries need armies.

Doesn’t the existence of this ideology that says “Death to Israel” – in their own words, read the Hamas charter, listen to the interviews of their leaders – doesn’t the existence of this ideology change the reality? Doesn’t it make us think, well, Israel needs to take precautions, there were thousands of Terror attacks, they need security measures, they need to arrest people that throw stones – stones can kill, and that’s the intention of the throwing. They need to check people who cross borders.

Isn’t it insane to be complaining about that instead of thinking of how could the Palestinian people move away from this ideology?

How can anyone say Israel doesn’t want peace if their enemies didn’t try peace yet even once?

Couldn’t they ever have tried nothing different? Didn’t money get in there somehow? How much do a maze of large tunnels under cities cost? Could it have been spent on something else?

Now, after the horrible massacre of October 7^th, Israel had to go to war. Imagine if the rulers of your neighbor country commanded October 7^th in your country. Imagine it happened closed to your home. Wouldn’t you want to go after that group of people? Wouldn’t you have to?

Now don’t use numbers to invert the logic. All that happened later was war, and wars are not beautiful. Israel proves it don’t target civilians. Israel offered peace many times through decades. The images from Gaza, that’s what wars look like.

There is an evil campaign against Israel everywhere, but the question we should be asking is simple: who should ask for the end of this war?

Television showed people from Gaza say they don’t want bombings. Of course. I wish, and I am being sincere, that people in Gaza would say, “We don’t want any war with Israel, now or ever”. 

Isn’t it a good first step for the changes people say they want, for the better of Palestinian people? They can’t say that because of that ideology. Because of Hamas.

It’s time for the World to show we don’t want to miss the opportunity of seeing a Terror Group gone.

Television is mostly believing Hamas claims that they didn’t break the ceasefire when Israel strikes, even when Israel shows videos of Hamas violating the deal, but most journalist are “forgetting” to remind people that Hamas agreed to put down their weapons. Isn’t this crucial for peace?

So many people spent this entire time saying they “differentiate the people of Gaza from Hamas”. Yes, let’s do this differentiation, this separation, but not only in our little hearts, but in reality. Free the people of Gaza from Hamas. What better opportunity than now?

This war is not what I wanted for the people of Israel and the people of Gaza. But as I said, we need to get the people of Gaza to say, “We want peace. Now and in the future. Gaza just wants to mind its business”.