Together we will win, together we will overcome, we will achieve all the goals of the war, no one will bring us to our knees, The Hague Shamrag.
Clichés that are carried at a level by politicians, when the people look at them and do not believe that these are their leaders.
Because as Nira Shafaq from Kfar Gaza told me, there will be no victory picture. There is only a picture of failure, no matter how many words they try to say otherwise.
Yes, we will win because planes, tanks and bombs defeat a terrorist body. Because we are fighting for the inheritance of our forefathers in a war that is more unjust. They are fighting for our existence here.
But our weakness has been revealed to us and to the entire world, which looks at us and understands that deterrence is not what it was. An army that is among the strongest in the world has not only failed to protect its citizens, but has been fighting for more than three months, and Hamas is still firing rockets at us, albeit in a more limited way, and its leaders are still alive. That more than 100 days have passed since 136 of Israel's citizens, from a one-year-old baby to an 86-year-old adult, were kidnapped, and that Israel, with all its cyber capabilities, has no idea where they are; That the list of "permitted publication" is getting longer, and the line of wounded is also growing, and the trauma is national.
These words are not written out of despair or depression – they describe a situation from which we will grow, even at the difficult price paid by the nation, the price of the lives of its sons and daughters.
But the leadership must look at what is happening around it, at the crowds in the hostage square, at the hundreds of thousands who have been uprooted from their homes, at the slowly deteriorating economy, and at the decrees that worsen the price that the people are required to pay. The planned increase in VAT to 18 per cent will hit the weaker sectors, since it is paid from net income; When VAT increases by a percentage your disposable income for consumption decreases by a percentage. Every 200 shekels is less than a meat meal.
After a quarter in which many were placed on unpaid leave and many missed jobs and overtime because of a spouse who went on reserve duty, this act is ingratitude towards the country's productive and donor population.
The people look at the quarrels between the prime minister and the defense minister and are speechless. The two, who are supposed to manage the war and its goals, are unable to sit in one room, talk and consult, and conduct the most important battle that has happened here since the establishment of the state. Sit down and seriously discuss the day after. Set policies, not slogans.
The people look at the quarrels between the prime minister and the defense minister and are speechless. The two, who are supposed to manage the war and its goals, are unable to sit in one room, talk and consult, and conduct the most important battle that has happened here since the establishment of the state.
The leadership must come to its senses, because otherwise millions will take to the streets to demand its replacement with a leadership that sees the people and thinks about them, and not about itself and its survival. A leadership that will regain the trust of the United States, because if, God forbid, the situation continues, in which since December 23 there has not been a single conversation between the prime minister and the American president, then they too are fed up with the aimless path we are taking.
So what will be our victory picture – the return of the residents to their homes, who will testify that the threat to their lives has been removed, both in the north and in the south, not only militarily, but also politically, and for generations to come? Because the British military theorist, Sir Basil Liddell Hurd, was right when he said: The goal of war is to achieve a better peace, from the point of view of the belligerent side.
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