The obscure "iron swords" should be replaced by the historic Jabotinsky "iron wall", since the iron wall suffered a severe blow that requires significant restoration.
Each nation designs its own terms, through which it remembers formative events with long-term historical impact. The Nazi Islamists will choose the term that suits them, but we must influence the choice. A possible term that exhausts and expresses what Israel is supposed to do in the coming weeks: Kartha 2023 (pronounced as Artha). Kartha, I learned from Dr. Moti Kedar, is a disaster, a calamity, a term from the environment of catastrophe. And if it rings like the root Karat, you're not wrong.
The IDF's operational order, in one sentence, should look like this: You must strike such a terrible blow that it will cause the Palestinians to use the term "Kartha 2023." The term must occupy an equal place on the list alongside its historical brethren: Nakba 1948 and Naksa 1967, which reflect a national historical trauma.
The jungle animals watch in suspense as the residents of the villa react, which has been hit in an unprecedented way since it was built 75 years ago as a jungle villa. The animals are familiar with the various types of injuries and reactions from the past, and understand very well that we are in a different event:
the unprecedented scale of fallen, murdered and wounded in one day; the fact that masses of them are helpless citizens, including the elderly, women and children; The brutality of the abuse, murders and kidnappings all made the incident different. It is not only the terrible injury but the humiliation that, in a cruel animal environment, can deteriorate into an existential problem. The jungle animals watch and see if the villa's occupants will once again absorb and react with a terrible incompatibility with the rules of the jungle game, or if this time they will come to their senses.
The toppling of the Hamas regime has become an obvious and obvious goal that must be achieved, but it will not be enough. How it will be done is much more important. The burning and engraving in the consciousness must be at a historical level, one that will oblige them, having no choice, to invent a new term alongside the Nakba and the Naksa. Kartha. Nothing less.
And consciousness is in the details: many square kilometers, flat and aligned, which were once built-up areas in the centers of Gaza, Rafah and Khan Yunis with before and after pictures. No "knock on the roof" and other early warnings; A picture of the corpses of all Hamas leaders, up close, preferably with the Israeli flag in the background; Convoys of tens of thousands of people flee in terror and run over the fences in Rafah towards Egypt; Complete closure without electricity, water and food, simultaneously or graded. Never mind the order. And let everyone remember the bombing of Dresden.
The difficulty in doing this is great, even though we have all the capabilities to do so. The desire to carry out the attack exists among the public and at the storming echelons, and it will increase as the details of the atrocities become public. The terrible images are already gaining understanding abroad, even if it will be limited, against the background of what will become clear and against the background of foreign citizens who were part of the horror.
The toppling of the Hamas regime has become an obvious and obvious goal that must be achieved, but it will not be enough. How it will be done is much more important. The burning and engraving in the consciousness must be at a historical level, one that will oblige them, having no choice, to invent a new term alongside the Nakba and the Naksa. Kartha. Nothing less
The difficulty will be due to the military and political leadership, which is supposed to give the appropriate instructions and orders. It is unclear how many of them have freed themselves from the fixation of the past. There is concern, even though the right voices are already being heard, that even in the face of the horrors, they remain residual from the seminars and seminars given by "ethics" and "human rights" experts from all sorts of organizations and institutes. There they learned about the "uninvolved population," the "moderates" (as opposed to the extremists), the "complex reality," and "asymmetrical warfare" of "low intensity." These and many others have been translated into a crazy policy of "democracy fighting with a hand tied behind its back": "economic stick and carrot", "breathing lockdown", "restraint is power", "containment", "knocking on the roof" and more.
The familiar regret should be replaced with Kartha. Any order to go into battle will end with Bialik, vengeance of the blood of a little boy that Satan has not yet created. 120 years after Kishinev and Bialik's poem, the manifestly disproportionate use of force must continue until the Palestinian discourse features their Dresden, the Kartha 2023.
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