Documentation of the war of the commando formation in Khan Yunis/IDF spokesman
Each of us encounters something wrong several times a day. The computer freezes, the mobile app doesn't work. The ATM is dead. The charging station is not connected. There is no Wi-Fi. And you turn off and on, call support, connect wires, disconnect electricity, arrange the flow of qi in the space according to the principles of feng shui - and Gurnish.
This is exactly how the Israeli collective stands in front of the broken reality, and cannot figure out how to restart the machine, "like before". nothing works. If it wasn't a pain in the little toe, or too expensive, you would have long ago tried to solve the problem with a nervous kick. It used to work.
Now take all these explosions, multiply them by the highest number you know - and you got the atmosphere of those days in Israel. The air is full of cripples. Everything is stuck. And we - a nostalgic people like us - do what our ancestors did. What does not go by force, may go by much more force. The greatest achievement of Hamas in the saddest Simchat Torah ever: it managed to severely damage one of the most important achievements of the Zionist revolution - the seizure of Jewish power.
Sometimes the flock also goes to the slaughter. IDF fighters in the Gaza Strip/IDF spokesman
The Israeli thirst for power is an unnecessary waste and not really useful. Until October 7, we had a concept of security with two absolute forces. A huge and disproportionate force for the conventional decision of any campaign, on any front; and absolute power for mass destruction, clearly unconventional. On the conventional front we were defeated. And here it is necessary to be precise; The October surprise is the least of our problems. Six months of fighting, revenge and blind and cruel killing did not change the equations at all - and they are the strategic defeat.
Total victory is not a killing contest, or even a number of sweaty TV appearances. A strategic victory is to impose your policy on the enemy. Hamas succeeded in imposing its cruelty on us as a way of life. And we have no alternative of peace or a policy of reconciliation to change their way of life. So who forced who? And who won?
Like sheep going to the slaughter, we find it difficult to see reality with other eyes. For example: Is it possible to have a power that requires less power? Or a policy that will replace bullying? Václav Havel, the first president of the free Czech Republic, wrote about "The Power of the Powerless," an iconic essay that symbolized the resistance and hopes of victory over the Communist-Soviet tyranny. In the reality of absolute weakness, he wondered: "Is it possible that it is precisely a moment of abysmal doubt that gives rise to new certainties? Perhaps helplessness is the ground that feeds human hope; perhaps we can never find meaning in life without first experiencing its absurdity."
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As our ancestors did: what does not go by force, may go by more force. An IDF tank in the Gaza Strip/IDF spokesperson
and from there to here. Is it possible in our reality to think about breaking away from the obsession with power? Here is an exercise in guided imagination: an Israel that does not think through the trigger and barrel of the cock tool, that has enough self-confidence for self-defense that is not constant aggression, that has a set of values and thought that does not first kill (and a lot) and then (not) ask questions. vice versa. Let's try to stop for a moment, take a deep breath and change direction.
Imagine that with the outbreak of hostilities and the crimes of October, the government ordered the army to repel the invaders across the international border. At the end of the mission, she would appear before the international community and say: we were attacked, we were surprised, we were hurt. But - before we embark on a war of destruction and destruction, we expect you to try and solve the problem without any more bloodshed. Return the abductees, bring the criminals to justice internationally, exile the top Hamas, launch a political plan that will eventually restore Gaza and surrounding Gaza, Israel and Palestine will live in peace side by side, and fight together the fanatics of Islam and Judaism who seek to destroy our common future here.
We could stand up to the world and demand a solution that would not involve bloodshed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu/image processing, photo: Nimrod Klikman
And the prime minister - if he knew how to give a speech and perform, he would have given a speech. He would open with a quote from Vaclav Havel's first speech:
"The worst thing is that we live in a morally polluted environment. We have become morally ill, because we have gotten used to not saying what we think. We have learned not to believe what we say, to ignore each other, to care only for ourselves."
And continues with an Israeli vision of peace:
"No, we do not believe in force, and we have never changed our relations with the Arab people by force. On the contrary, force was used against us... Many nations waged wars among themselves, and sometimes used the evil term 'eternal enemy.'
He presented a real Israeli peace vision, but where is he and where are we? Menachem Begin/Government Press Office, Hanania Herman
There are no eternal enemies. After all the wars came the inevitable - peace... We will conduct the negotiations as equals with equals. There are no losers and no winners. All the peoples of the region are equal, and everyone will treat each other with respect. And in this spirit of openness, of willingness to listen to each other, to the facts , reasons and explanations, with all human attempts at persuasion, which is acceptable... That is why today I will be allowed to determine what the content of peace is according to our understanding. We are asking for full, real peace, with complete reconciliation between the Jewish people and the Arab people. Not to sink into the memories of the past. There were wars . There was bloodshed. Members of a wonderful young generation fell on both sides."
"We don't believe in power, we believe in right, only right, and that's why our desire from the bottom of our hearts, from time immemorial to this very day, is peace."
Spoiler: All of the above things are taken from the peace speeches of... Menachem Begin. And Netanyahu is "just not Begin". He will always prefer a kick over a correction. And preferably with the little toe of our foot. The
writer served as Speaker of the Knesset, etc. R. The Jewish Agency
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