Another One About A Country That Doesn't Want To Be Destroyed

 I'm always looking for clearer and more direct ways of expressing how I see the conflicts Israel is in. So here we go.

Any sane person would avoid war if possible. It has to be the last resource. And yes, even as a last resource, It is difficult.

So, some people may say that we should never wage war, no matter what. 

But what if you are seeing destruction in your country, caused by an external force who makes clear it will never listen to any proposal of coexistence?

That is what Israel saw in so many terror attacks they suffered, culminating in October 7th, 2023, the massacre that Hamas, a terror group promoted by Iran, perpetrated, starting the current war.

And since then, other groups tied to Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houtis in Yemen, and Iran itself, fired thousand of missiles towards Israel.

A lot of people can't accept this war as a necessary one, because of the proportion of the tragedy on the side of Gaza, and  there is also tragedy in Lebanon. Much more people died on that side, do Israel must be wrong, they think.

But this is a result of how this war is carried by the different sides. One side invests in protection of their people, the other side is controlled by Iran and their proxies, investing only in the protection of terrorists, building tunnels under cities and endangering their people by being always mixed with civilian life, knowing that it will slow Israel.

A victory for Israel would inevitably look like what we are seeing, because even with the Idf trying their best to minimize civilian harm - more than any country has done in any war - the other side tries its best to mix combatants with civilians, terrorist infrastructure with civilian environments, to make Israel look bad. What we are seeing is Israel winning in the only way possible, fighting. It's either that, or not fighting at all.

But then, some people may still think that, because of the tragic quality of the result of this conflict, we should, even with the danger over Israel, go back to "no war at all", somehow. After all, even children are dying, right?

Yes, and it is terribly tragic, but whenever there are aggressive violent regimes growing, threatening and attacking others, it will bring tragedy to the people under these regimes. We must extend our empathy to people, but if we don't fight at all, we are giving to this horrible regimes all they want.

 Israel has a future to protect, they can't accept that they should neglect the minimal safety of their own families, or should they? Yes, it's hard, isn't it?

And the truth is that we, in the West, don't have the same need that Israelis have for clarifying what is possible and what is not in the reality of the Middle East.

There are 42 Arab countries,  one Jewish State. Two billion Muslims, fourteen million Jews,  and there is a constantly growing ideology of radical religious view and of extreme Jew-hatred.

Are we saying that “Israel must not fight back because the enemy cannot destroy Israel because Israel is stronger”? But is Israel stronger if they don’t fight back?

But in the West even the people who are not in the hallucinated group that waves Hezbollah flags, the ones who just oppose all wars, they don't really need to present a better solution.

Let's face it. We can be like some “cool” World leaders. In October 7th, all we needed to do was to “condemn” it. Then when Israel fights back and war brings its pain, we condemn that too. If Israel stopped when we condemned it, then Hezbollah could have launched their prepared Operation “Conquer the Galilee” and massacred more Israelis,then what? Easy, we condemn that too. What if Iran finally builds nuclear bombs and starts threatening Israel with them? What if they  throw them? We keep condemning all that. What if different radical islamist groups fight between themselves and massacre their own people, like the half million people dead in the Syrian Civil war? You know the answer. Condemn, and you're fine. You were righteous all along.

But Israel can't give themselves this luxury. From the moment when

October 7th started there was  a situation of war and their children were dying. They were already  navigating a world of danger where safety and peace don't come by waiting. What “doing nothing” would look like from their point of view?

Should they simply watch their people die in many attacks and try to calculate that the death of their own people is a necessary evil in order to avoid war at any cost?

Or maybe they should just count their own dead, waiting until it gets to a number that would justify a defensive war in the eyes of the West? Can't you see how insane that would be?

So what can be done? Well, Israel did the only thing they could do: defining the source of the threat - the terrorist groups and Iran - and doing what is strictly necessary to reduce their power of aggression.

Nobody can know all the exact "What happens ifs" of the future. You know you are fighting for the right side, by the way your side fights and by what your side represents.

The Idf shows to the World the concrete measures it takes to mitigate civilian harm - although it obviously can't be perfect. And they are clearly saying that when there be no more terrorism, there is no more war.

The other side is also clear, when they say that they will never be satisfied while Israel still exists.

Which one is fighting for a reality closer to the hope we all should have: A future where, for the first time in History, no child dies from war?

There are insane terrorist leaders in this World, with a global view of victory against "the West". They are recruiting and training people, and getting equipped, and they have powerful allies.

They have a vision of future that should look dark to all of us. And sooner or later, they will need to be confronted, for the sake of Humanity. Or not?

As for doing all you can to avoid the tragedies of war, why don't we turn our eyes to the important people who kept inviting Iranian leaders to glamorous things while all this was growing?