Until the second intifada, the Palestinians used "conventional" terrorism against Israel: terrorism whose perpetrators want to return to their homes in peace, therefore with proper defensive preparation it was possible to deter them from acting or thwart their actions.
In the second intifada, the Palestinians used for the first time a new kind of terror: turning the terrorists themselves, their children and their family members into human bombs and human shields - a horrific terror whose operators were stripped of their human image and the instinct of existence inherent in man, like any other living creature.
The battlefield is indeed the realm of uncertainty, chance and randomness, as defined by Clausewitz, but the survival instinct inherent in man prevents him from becoming chaotic, and therefore allows him to be fought in the light of universal principles and rules of war, from which the laws of war are also derived.
Fighting in the light of the principles of war and its rules is intended to win on the battlefield, not necessarily as a result of the systematic destruction of the enemy, but as a result of his defeat: achieving operational superiority that creates for the defeated party a realizable, certain and immediate threat to his existence;
In a reflexive instinctive response to a threat - as in an instinctive response to sticking a gun to the temple - the defeated party raises their hands and surrenders, on the terms of the decisive party.
The entry into the battlefield of a person cut off from his own survival instinct and a parent's instinct to protect the lives of his children and loved ones, made the battlefield chaotic.
As a result, the principles of war and the rules and laws of war became inapplicable on this battlefield, just as rules for physical behavior on Earth become inapplicable in the chaotic reality created in the spaceship after it is detached from the Earth's gravity.
Jerusalem received its name in the event of the binding, which symbolizes in Western culture the cessation of human sacrifice and the replacement of the Mesopotamian culture, which sanctified death, with the Hebrew humanist culture that sanctifies life.
Given the nature of Palestinian terrorism, which in its cruelty and inhumanity surpasses the cruelty of the Nazis (who did not turn themselves, their children and family members into human bombs and human shields), Jerusalem was expected to call heaven and earth to prevent the Palestinians from turning the West and the world back 4,000 years.
Unfortunately, Jerusalem on its three authorities filled its mouth with water and thereby legitimized the existence in the world of an inhumane and unnatural version of the war.
Moreover, Jerusalem forced the IDF to continue fighting in light of the laws of humane war, on a battlefield that the Palestinians had made inhuman, unnatural and therefore chaotic.
Possessed by the dispersion of human rights even for those who have cut themselves off from human nature and the nature of every other living creature, and cut off from the state morality established in the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom in its Hebrew interpretation, Jerusalem has opened the gates of the Jewish Hall of Justice to the Palestinian society, and thus gave the perpetrators a musical act Salary as Pinchas.
Long years of painstaking attention to the containment of Palestinian terrorism without human inhibitions, and fighting it in light of the laws of war designed for humane war, have in fact turned the laws of war into an instrument for the self-destruction of the IDF and Israeli society.
Jerusalem forced the IDF to continue fighting in light of the humane laws of war, on a battlefield that the Palestinians had made inhuman, unnatural and therefore chaotic
The division of Israeli society by October 6, 2023 and the helplessness of the IDF on October 7 are a clear result of the moral eclipse created in Israel in recent decades.
The moral eclipse, which resulted in the containment of the Palestinian culture of death from Israel's free choice on the one hand, and the opening of the gates of the Hall of Justice (High Court) in Jerusalem to its mediators on the other hand, resulted in Israel being dragged - a victim of the culture of death - as an accused to the Hall of Justice in The Hague.
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