Who will win the war?
In the event of a war, Israelis promptly go
back to their reserve positions or wherever their presence is required. They
grow up knowing that the Jewish state is much smaller than the Muslim states
around it and that even those at peace wouldn’t cry if Israel was gone. Muslims
don’t accept losing lands to non-Muslims. In Canada and the West, Muslims are
the most peaceful people, but in the Middle East, many are not. Folks like the
extremists in Iran or Afghanistan often educated them. Consequently, Israelis
don’t dare lose a war regardless of how they feel about their internal
politics.
When on October 7th Hamas tortured,
kidnapped, and killed 1200 Israelis, the rest assumed that their faith would be
the same if they didn’t all fight together for their lives. Most Israelis grew
up hearing stories about what happened to Jews who didn’t fight. First the Jews
of Europe and later the Jews in Israel who fought against the Palestinians and
all the Arab countries at once.
Now, Israel boasts one of the best armies in
the world, and its entire population undergoes training in the arts of war and
functions as a well-disciplined unit. You don’t get to choose who you will
fight, but follow your orders to the best of your ability. The faith of your
family and friends is on your shoulders.
Stories come out of human minds.
Yosy is a reserve pilot. He is a newly
married teacher and has a baby boy. He heard on the news that Hamas burned
babies in ovens and then got the call. Report immediately to your unit. A jeep
was all ready at the front of his home to take him and he barely hugged his
wife Yafa and kissed the baby before running to war. The vehicle was equipped
with a siren and flashing lights and in less than an hour; he was at the
military base hearing and watching the planes taking off.
He knew where he was and the names of people
around. A short while later, dressed in his flight suit, he was waiting to take
the plane assigned to him. His briefing told him he would fly to a destination
in Gaza and bomb a building next to a school. Yesterday he was teaching at a
school. His emotions were fighting his training and sense of duty. The
building's residents, targeted for bombing, should have been alerted by now.
That wasn’t a part of his mission.
Seated in the familiar cockpit all strapped
in, he felt at home. He was less than a year from active duty and years of
training and practice. The distance of flying in Israel is minimal in a
supersonic jet. What about the kids around the building he was going to bomb
crossed his mind? Their people burnt babies in ovens, his mind replied. But
they didn’t. Their parents shouldn’t have voted terrorists into government.
His eyes rested on the terrain below. He knew
every area of Israel and Gaza from the air. The buildings were small in the
distance and he couldn’t see the people, but knew they were there. In his
mind’s eye, he pictured them dancing as they did at Nine Eleven. They always do
when they hear about Americans or Israelis being hurt. They shout Allahu Akbar
and shoot in the air. But we hurt them first, crossed his mind. They refused
peace; he remembers his teacher in school saying. He remains vigilant just in
case the enemy has some anti-air weapons, but they don’t. In the distance, he
saw a salvo of missiles heading toward the Israeli side. He circled around and
saw the Iron Dome going up to meet the offense. They are shooting at my family;
he thought. But the children did nothing. Bombs away.
The smoke rose, and Yosy couldn’t see a
thing. Only the pictures in his mind. Bodies buried, fires, and kids crying
can’t find their parents. Choking dust and smoke. It’s a war that they started.
They didn’t just kill they tortured and beheaded people.
Yosy’s grandmother used to tell him stories
about the war. She said that there is a God and against him is the dark Lord.
They fight in our minds, she repeated often. If we go for revenge and terror,
the dark Lord wins. Everybody will kill everyone else. People can change, but
it starts with us. God has to win in your minds.
They planned the attack on Israel for a long
time. Equipment and training take long to obtain. Brainwashing of participants
is not instantaneous. They predicted the effects and calculated the use of
ordinary Gazan's sufferings to sway world opinion. It was all executed
meticulously and we may ask, why now?
The answer is that Israel and Saudia Arabia
were close to signing a peace agreement. The Iranian people wouldn’t oppose it,
but the leadership couldn’t have it. Both the Israelis killed in the music
festival and surrounding towns, as well as the poor everyday Palestinians, are
paying with their blood for an old religious and political feud.
Yosy and his comrades will have to deal with
their mental health problems for a long time. Their political leader may turn
himself from a wanted man to a hero and the world may be at war. Some people
don’t care. The dark Lord already possesses their souls.
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